This is a play I wrote for my first graders. At the end of the year we put on a production for the parents to show what the students have learned. Each child gets to pick what they want to do. Five little boys wanted to do a fight between the Minute Men and the Red Coats so I wrote this play for them to do for their parents.

An autobiographical account of a boyhood haunt and how it got its name.

In 1836 the nation’s poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, introduced a hymn to be sung in Concord for a memorial to those who died in the first revolutionary battle in April 1775.

My name is John Right. I enlisted in the army because I wanted my country to remain free. Not a country controlled by the British.