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In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, tensions between the American Colonies and British Government escalate rapidly.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” begins, “Listen, my children …” And, sure enough, we have long told ...

Saturday marked the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. And while others reenacted the first battles at Lexington and Concord, people in Olney stepped out to make their own “shot… Read More ...

From now until Oct. 19, 2031, when we mark the final defeat of the British Army at Yorktown, Americans will be celebrating ...

Among those watching the Lexington reenactment was Brandon Mace, a lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserve whose ancestor ...