American

Paul Revere’s Ride

Ages 4–108 minAmerican

On a cold spring night in 1775, a Boston silversmith rode out to warn his neighbors the soldiers were coming. The true story — not just Revere, but a whole watchful countryside.

A small rowboat with muffled oars crossing the dark Charles River by lantern-light, two tiny golden lanterns glowing high in the Old North Church steeple in the distance.
Adapted from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem and the historical record of April 18–19, 1775.

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