🎉 Join us in celebrating America’s 250th anniversary in Elizabeth, NJ in 2026! #GoElizabethNJ250 🇺🇸

Name: Paul Revere’s Read
Start: 2025-04-06T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-06T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage @ 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, New Jersey, 08876, US

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Paul Revere’s Read

April 6 @ 2:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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250 years ago Paul Revere rode through Somerville, Massachusetts by night. 250 years we meet in Somerville, New Jersey by day.

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Gather in the Old Dutch Parsonage for a reading and discussion of the poetry and history of “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “the shot heard round the world” that 250 years ago opened the Revolutionary War.

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Answer the Call for Action of Two Lights for Tomorrow and consider bringing a donation of supplies needed for the Food Bank Network of Somerset County: https://www.somersetfoodbank.org/about/give-supplies/’ href=’https://www.somersetfoodbank.org/about/give-supplies/’ rel=’nofollow noreferrer noopener’ target=’_blank’>https://www.somersetfoodbank.org/about/give-supplies/

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Two Lights for Tomorrow is a nationwide initiative to commence the celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States of America. The famous ride of Paul Revere occurred on the overnight of April 18 – 19, 1775. Two Lights for Tomorrow commemorates that famous ride and uses the imagery of that shining light today as a uniting call to action for our citizens to celebrate and

🎉 Join us in celebrating America’s 250th anniversary in Elizabeth, NJ in 2026! #GoElizabethNJ250 🇺🇸

Paul Revere’s Read

April 6 @ 2:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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