This is a creative letter I wrote, from the standpoint of the Boston Sons of Liberty during the Revolutionary War Period, right before the Boston Tea Party. They were writing to persuade people to join their cause.
Continue ReadingThis 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.
Continue ReadingAn autobiographical account of a boyhood haunt and how it got its name.
Continue ReadingIn 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.
Continue ReadingMy name is John Right. I enlisted in the army because I wanted my country to remain free. Not a country controlled by the British.
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