April 19, 1775

Around 2:00am along the Battle Road on April 19, 1775, Paul Revere was detained by British soldiers. William Dawes, another night rider, witnessed the capture from a safe distance and was therefore able to skirt the Redcoat hazard and continue with his mission, which was the same as Revere's. The British held Revere for awhile and then released him, however they kept his horse. Adding a twist of irony to the story, Paul Revere had borrowed that horse for the occasion.



Credit for this information goes to signage at the Paul Revere Capture Site and a volunteer working at the Hartwell Tavern in Lincoln, Massachusetts at a demonstration at the Bloody Angle in 2007.

"Pressure makes diamonds."

During a telephone call with an employee from MassGOP this morning, I learned a new phrase, pertinent to the political environment enveloping Massachusetts and the people involved in those campaigns. When asked to whom the quotation is attributed, the gentleman at the Boston office suggested that perhaps a life insurance salesman back in the 1950's might have come up with it as a way of dealing with the stress of his job. Just before we said good-bye he added, "Women really like it".