Today, we went to Lexington and took a tour of the Hancock-Clark House and the Buckman Tavern.
(P.S. Paul Revere never actually said "The British are coming" because if he had the colonists' reply would've been that they are British so what's the matter?)
The Hancock-Clark House was pretty fun to hear about since I heard that John Hancock (III, there were three generations of John Hancock's, the first one being the III's grandfather and he was a preacher that apparently very much liked his exclamation points!!) was quite the prima-donna and gave Paul Revere quite a lot of grief. (See here…)
After we went to the Hancock-Clark House we went to the Buckman Tavern. There we got to look at the men's half of the tavern, where the men waited for the British to arrive when the war began, and we saw the original door of the tavern which had a hole in it because of people shooting holes through the door during the battle. (It is believed that the first shot was fired through the third floor of the tavern.) We also saw the ladies room where the women would be since they were not allowed in the men's side and we also saw the workroom which had a bed and a desk. (The bed being for a servant/apprentice/helper because the owner of the tavern never had any children to help run the tavern and fully functioning farm.)
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