MEREDITH ― The Meredith Public Library will kick off its months-long set of America 250 program series with a presentation titled “Shot NOT Heard 'Round the World.”
Costumed patriot reenactor and amateur historian Michael Geanoulis will set the historical record straight as he reveals that the American Revolution did not really begin with the famous shot "Heard 'Round the World" at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, but at Fort William and Mary in December 1774 in Portsmouth.
The British file, also known as the Wentworth Papers, thus documents the first organized assault against the authority and property of King George III. It challenges the prevailing belief that the revolution began in Massachusetts in 1775, asserting instead that it began four months earlier with Paul Revere’s Ride to New Hampshire in 1774.
The lecture is on Thursday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Meredith Public Library.
For more information, visit meredithlibrary.org.
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