Location
March 23, 2025 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., Goodwin Forum, Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street, and on Zoom
In this live book group session, which is open to the public, Concord resident Robert Gross will be interviewed by Diane Proctor, followed by questions from the audience. The session will be recorded by the Minuteman Media Network. Books for loan to League members and the public are now available at the main desk of the Concord Public Library.
This book is an intensive and wide-ranging study of the community of Concord, Massachusetts, the city in which the famed “shot heard round the world” was fired on April 19, 1775. Gross investigates daily life in the community at the time, helping readers understand citizens’ (and future soldiers’) daily routines, worldview, and even hopes and dreams as he relates their relationship to the war in which the community they called home would soon be engulfed. He looks as well at the legacy of the war in the town, taking a brief look at its post-Revolution existence and place in American memory. The result is a well-rounded and lively account of a community before, during, and after the Revolution (Review taken from The Historians Manifesto).
