First Patriots' Day, The: An Eyewitness Account By Dr. Alfred Worcester

By the Rue the bridge that arched the flood their flag a proven breeder unfurled. Here once the embattled farmers do it and fired the shot heard round the world. That's how ro Waldo Emerson described the battle at the Concord Bridge in his calm good to him. What did the Battle of Lexington and Concord mean to people living here. In seventeen hundred seventy five. This afternoon Dr Alfred was to will tell you what the Battle of Lexington meant to his great grandmother who was a little girl living in a walled clam 175 years ago. On the original Patriot's Day. Dr. Worth it was told a story by his great grandmother 90 years ago. And he has been passing it on for many years. Today for the first time about the work to this story on the radio transcribed direct from the study of his home while Sam by the Lowell

Institute in cooperation with Boston College often University Harvard MIT NE and Cox. We take you now to walk them and Dr. Alfred What's this. I'm going to tell you what I heard from my great grandmother about 90 is her goal. She told me. What she remembers of the battle of the lake seeing to then where she was 90 years old. And her story went back to when

she was a little girl of five or six. I wish. I could draw for illustration for I see of very plainly a little old. Wrinkled face woman latest ruffled calf such as women older women newer to when she began did the story. It's the first Woods My father had gone on the day. I'm of the Lexington

battle. When I wage job hit my father were gone and they said this old jewels have gone. The minute men were called out in the night my father had to go. Well well then you can hear the drums. No no. And. You know the plight of the old who those have dropped on them out there you say there's been fighting up in the lasing and the British. I've come to search

all ah how do they think the British are opera. The Minutemen those stolen of guns I'm proud of all that we had was taken on the boat for I was up I don't believe I had any break clothes that day but I heard the drums and I ran north around the road. I harassed the meadow we children had been playing in the owers meadow. They were just bowing out. Grandma and Grandpa those ho

was all over the color of the lacing been rolled and the Lincoln rolled though we could not of see them from or where you live. I ran across country to my grandfather of 0 0 and then out of those old Dunes were on the opposite side of the role of the great lot of them. They kept coming out and their wives and their children with them. They have children and wives. When the men folks live would be at the mercy of the

British. So do we sit on the hood for a room a horse from one out there or another would come with a new horse covered with coal with order from time to time from Carnival. I remember that name. She said the danger was why the more women and children rather they are the danger was that the British might come back not through from Konga where they'd been fighting that way hood

bud. My dad come back either by Lincoln all by Lexington and if they came by Lincoln they would go down through the walled them several months of the war play in and download Bebo. Then she said I don't know does exactly what time it draws budget road Huong I know. I rage ran home and dies. They would film the knowers. Hey I'm dead. They

were two of the men and men must go to Lexington that our troops whom we've gone through approaching. I was floored as I remembered that he had nothing to say about the reinforcements that say of those However US British. Bertus own changed tone she said. I've been seeing many sad parting in my Along with the Never have I ever see him and this sadness

like to that iron rule. They had read us for many of those man one I see in the live after work. She wandered off as she told the story and to what had really impressed mall the gun was that she the British guy for the relief of the Cong had died was. Conquered died so does pressing the British. They got of some kind and then do the first suit

and then they British reinforcements got up and as far as liking and there was one of them needing from then on the post count of the knighting came as the troops were leaving Hong Kong. It is very easy to ramble on but I think I've told through all that I want to carry away. They show the Battle of the lacing that my great grandmother would give me. Out of memory.

I can see the wrinkles. Oh you've got a mother those days I think I do love them. I still do though a wrinkle of the aged days. I couldn't hear her voice. I couldn't hear you. I've seen many as there being but nothing like to fall through as the love of those who they love.

Oh yes say goodbye. You have heard Dr Alfred Worster speaking from his home in a world class. Telling the story of the Battle of Lexington as it was proved to him by his great grandmother. Ninety years ago. Dr. West are now nearly 95 years old was a practicing physician in the world crime problem eighteen hundred eighty three hundred one thousand nine hundred twenty five and is Henry K. all of a professor of hygiene America at Harvard. Dr. work there was among the protrusion to operate for appendicitis. And he was the founder of the world Pam training school for nurses. Dr. Werner incidentally did the old with the looking graduate of Harvard College and for several years he led the alumni procession on the Harvard commencement. This special playgroup a broadcast or transcribed pro-euro by the lowliest

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