{"id":20294,"date":"2024-01-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=20294"},"modified":"2024-01-26T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:27:54","slug":"westford-250-the-minutemen-and-their-world-an-evening-with-robert-gross","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/event\/westford-250-the-minutemen-and-their-world-an-evening-with-robert-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Westford 250\u2014The Minutemen and Their World, An Evening with Robert Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"em-item-image \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/museum.westford.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Westford-250-red.jpg\" alt=\"Westford 250- A Pressing Matter: 18th Century Media Literacy and Bias with Michele Gabrielson\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The \u201cshot heard round the world\u201d catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town\u2013future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne\u2013soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life. In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert Gross shares a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert A. Gross<\/strong> is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Minutemen and Their World (1976), which won the Bancroft Prize; Books and Libraries in Thoreau\u2019s Concord (1988); and The Transcendentalists and Their World (2021). With Mary Kelley, he is the co-editor of An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790\u20131840 (2010). A former assistant editor of Newsweek, he has written for such periodicals as Esquire, Harper\u2019s Magazine,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Program donation $10 per person<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Your donation supports the preservation and maintenance of artifacts in the collection <\/em><em>of the Westford Museum. Thank you for your donation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14009 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/museum.westford.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Enterprise-Bank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. 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