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Name: Concord Town History & Guide Training
Start: 2025-02-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-07T00:00:00-04:00
Location: Concord-Carlisle High School

Concord Town History & Guide Training

When

2/24/25 to 4/7/25

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Website: https://Ccace.asapconnected.com/#CourseID=126540

Location: Concord-Carlisle High School

Event Description

If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a tour guide in Concord or simply want to delve deeper into the story of our remarkable town, the Concord Town History & Guide Training is perfect for you. Discover not just what happened here in 1775, but why it happened. Explore the lives of the men and women who made Concord the cradle of American independence, the 19th-century authors who shaped its cultural legacy, the town’s antislavery champions, the indigenous people who have called this land home for millennia, and so many more fascinating figures.

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Harvard’s Year of Exile
Lexington and Concord. April 19, 1775. Where and when the Revolutionary War started is well known. Not so well known is the fact that Harvard played an important, if odd, role afterward in the early days of the Revolution, turning its campus over to the nascent American army. On May 1, 1775, undergraduates were dismissed and given an early summer vacation. Classes resumed on Oct. 5 in Concord, 20 miles away — the beginning of a wartime academic sojourn.
The Spring Issue is Here!
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