10/3/2008: Long has lived the immortal poem Paul Revere’s Ride. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s words have been memorized by school children across the country; memorized by reluctant school children perhaps, but remembered all the same. The poem conjures visions of desperation as America took its first steps towards independence from King George and Great Britain’s unjust taxation. It tells of the heroics of our first patriots as they fought the feared ‘redcoat’ soldiers in their fields and their towns. And none of it has anything to do with North Dakota; well not necessarily.
Sussex County Genealogical Society meeting, 10 a.m., via Zoom. Officer election for 2021-22, speaker Denise Clemons to present How to Use the Daughters of the American Revolution Records for Genealogical Research. Contact programs@scgsdelaware.org.