Saturday, March 23, 2024

9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Minute Man Visitor Center Parking Lot

Free, registration required

Help us get ready for Patriots' Day! Park Day volunteers may take part in removing invasive plants, seeding native plants, caring for orchards, caring for stone walls, maintaining trails, removing trash from the landscape, and more while learning about the park’s history and ecology from cultural and natural resource team leaders. You can register for a morning slot, an afternoon slot, or both!

This event is free and open to the public. To register or to learn more please click on the button below.

Join us for the Friends of Minute Man Winter Lecture Series!

Sunday, March 24, 2024

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Concord Free Public Main Library

Free and open to the public

Punch bowls, and tankards, and bottles, oh my! Minute Man National Historical Park’s museum curator Nikki Walsh will present a lecture about the material culture related to drinking in the park’s collections. This lecture will focus on 18th-century drinking culture and include aspects of drink in earlier and later periods of history. Nikki has worked for the National Park Service since 2009 and currently serves as the curator for Minute Man National Historical Park.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required for this in-person event. To learn more, click on the button below.

As April approaches, please consider giving $25 to support Patriots' Day 2024 and 250th anniversary events at Minute Man National Historical Park this season. The Semiquincentennial

events at the park kick off in 2024 with Patriots' Day and span until the 2030s. We will keep you updated on these special events every step of the way!

Your gift provides critical assistance to the park, which offers Patriots' Day events free of charge to thousands of visitors each year. Your support helps provide transportation, training, and supplies to the hundreds of volunteer reenactors who make Patriots' Day living history events come to life. Your donation also helps recreate the sights, smells, and sounds of 1775, including historical clothing for staff, black powder for the weapons, horses for the mounted British soldiers, and oxen for the Battle Road civilian evacuation event. As record attendance is expected for the anniversary years, your help is needed now more than ever.

Give a $25 for the 250th Anniversary gift today and support Patriots' Day 2024 and the 250th anniversary! Thank you for your support.

Recording Now Available

We had an amazing turnout for "The Hive: A Symposium for Living History Interpreters" in anticipation of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution. This annual learning event took place over two days in February and attracted over 130 living history professionals from across New England. Attendees listened to scholarly lectures, learned about visitor engagement, and received training on all aspects of historical impressions, from the correct materials, lace, and buttons to hairstyles and cosmetics. 

The Friends of Minute Man is fortunate to work with such talented living history reenactors and interpreters. These folks bring history to life at Minute Man National Historical Park and at historical sites around New England. By providing a full view of life during the American Revolution, from civilians to soldiers, these dedicated volunteers are crucial to Patriots’ Day and other living history events at the park.

To see more photos of the event and view the recording, please click on the button below.

Rangers Jarrad, Jim and new team member Bob will soon be heading to Alabama to attend the National Park Service Historic Weapons course. For two weeks, they will practice drills for muskets and cannon and will certify in eighteenth-century weapons and protocols.

Park Ranger Jim Hollister, who serves as the park Historic Weapons Program Coordinator will be instructing several of the classes to park rangers from numerous park sites from across the nation.

This class ensures that rangers are well-trained to provide popular weapons demonstrations and tactical demonstrations at Minute Man throughout the year, including the upcoming Patriots' Day events.

March is Women's History Month

Revolution 250 Podcast: The Unexpected Abigail Adams with John L. Smith

Few women in the American Revolution and early Republic left behind such a voluminous correspondence as Abigail Adams. As her husband John got further involved in the cause of American independence and sovereignty, Abigail's circle of friends and admirers grew in like proportion. Listen to this conversation with John L. Smith, Jr. author of The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman not Apt to be Intimidated. Click here to listen.

Freedom's Way: Sarah Bradlee Fulton Memorial

Sara Bradlee Fulton, a hero of the American Revolution, was buried in Medford’s Salem Street Burying Ground in 1835. Learn more about the extraordinary life of the woman described as the “mother” of the Boston Tea Party. Click here to read.

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Friends of Minute Man National Park

North Bridge Visitor Center

174 Liberty Street

Concord, MA 01742

P: 978-318-7822

info@friendsofminuteman.org

www.friendsofminuteman.org