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              <text>Event Program (1897)</text>
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              <text>An event program from the 1897 Concord Fight anniversary.&#13;
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Transcription:&#13;
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Order of Exercises&#13;
1. Prayer. Rev. Loren B. MacDonald.&#13;
2. Continental March, Mr. Ashley P. How, Leader&#13;
To the tune of "The White Cockade." Salute to the Flag. Recitation, "Our Flag of Liberty." "America" to be sung by the audience.&#13;
3. Address. The President of the National Society, Mrs. Daniel Lothrop.&#13;
4. Hymn. "By the Rude Bridge that Arched the Flood." Ralph Waldo Emerson&#13;
To the tune of "Old Hundred" to be sung by the audience.&#13;
5. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe&#13;
Will recite her "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and relate, by request, the circumstances under which it was written. &#13;
6. Hymn. "Battle Hymn of the Republic,"&#13;
Solo. Mrs. George A. Tewksbury. The audience will join in the chorus.&#13;
7. Recitation. "Paul Revere's Ride," Henry W. Longfellow&#13;
By six young girls in costumes of 1775.&#13;
8. Hymn. "America Our Home."&#13;
Written for, and dedicated to, the National Society, by Prof. Geo. L. Raymond of Princeton University, and State Promoter of the National Society for New Jersey. Sung by Mrs. George A. Tewksbury and a quartet.&#13;
9. Letters and Greetings from Eminent Men.&#13;
10. Song. "The Red, White and Blue."&#13;
To be sung by the audience. &#13;
11. Reading. "The Minute Man." Margaret Sidney&#13;
Illustrated  by six young men in the costume of Minute Men.&#13;
12. Song. "The Star Spangled Banner."&#13;
To be sung by the audience.&#13;
Benediction. By Rev. Mr. MacDonald. &#13;
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"The White Cockade" was played as the Minute Men marched to the Old North Bridge, April 19, 1775. A Continental Drummer and Fifer will render it.&#13;
Mr. Frank Jackson will officiate at the organ.&#13;
Seats reserved on the right aisle for the "Old Concord Chapter, D.A.R., on the left for the "Old North Bridge Society."&#13;
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The right page contains the words to "America" (My Country 'Tis of Thee), "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Concord Hymn," and "The Red, White and Blue."</text>
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              <text>Town of Concord</text>
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              <text>1987</text>
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