It was an act of Treason. On the night of April 18, 1775 Robert Newman, Sexton of Christ Church in Boston slipped through a window of his home, undetected by the British soldiers who were living there. He climbed quietly to the steeple and lit two lanterns: signals to his co-conspirators that their plot against the Crown had begun. Angry shouts. Newman looked down to see British soldiers running toward the Church. He’d been discovered. Escaping down the stairs and through a window, he made it safely to his bed. The next day he was arrested and questioned. He lied.

Thus ignited a citizens’ Revolution that changed the world.

Join actor, writer, director, storyteller Johnny Kinsman for a presentation and slide show about the fateful midnight ride that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made famous. Why were Paul Revere and William Dawes heading to Lexington? Did the full moon impede their progress? And what about that petticoat?!

Kinsman will reveal these and other details rarely shared about this historic episode in his presentation and slideshow.