Dublin Core
Title
Announcement of 1st Annual Colonial Day by Assabet Village Minutemen
Creator
Assabet Village Minutemen
Date
1974-06-16
Contributor
Donated by Ken Mattsson
Identifier
2019.538
Document Item Type Metadata
Text
FOR RELEASE SUNDAY JUNE 16th, 1974
Assabet Village Minutemen to hold Ist Annual Colonial Day in Maynard.
Maynard, Mass.
June 16th, 1974
The Assabet Village Minutemen of Maynard, Massachusetts, will hold their Ist annual "Colonial Day" in Maynard on Sunday, June 23rd, 1974. This will
feature a Parade consisting of Minutemen and Militia units starting at 2:00 P.M. followed by a display of Colonial Arts and Crafts at the Maynard Rod & Gun Club, off Waltham Street.
Colonial Units from New Hampshire and Massachusetts will participate in the first event of this kind to be held in Maynard. The parade will form in the
Digital Equipment Corporation parking lot on Main Street (Route 62) at 1:30
and step off at 2:00 o'clock. The line of march will be out on to Front Street, right on Sudbury Street, right on to Main Street, down Main Street on to Nason Street, up Nason Street, right on to Summer Street to the reviewing stand at Memorial Park where streamers will be awarded to participating units. After the review and presentation of streamers, the parade will continue down Summer Street, to the intersection with Main Street, turn right on to Main Street and follow Main Street to the Digital parking lot where the parade will terminate.
Following the parade there will be a display of Colonial Arts and Crafts at the
Maynard Rod & Gun Club sponsored by the Assabet Village Minutemen and presented by the individual Minutemen and Militia Companies in attendance. The public is cordially invited to visit the Arts and Crafts exhibition and view the Colonial items made by these 20th Century craftsmen.
The Company of Assabet Village Minutemen was formed on April 12th, 1971, to recreate the events and perpetuate the memory of the original Minutemen from Maynard.
In 1775 the Town of Maynard did not exist as we know it today. It was then
just a village on the Assabet River; partly in Stow, and partly in Sudbury, as the Assabet River was the boundary between these two Colonial towns.
When the call came early on that April morning in 1775, the men of the Assabet Village fell in with their respective companies in Stow and Sudbury and prepared to defend their rights as free men against the soldiers of their King, at Concord.
This march to Concord from Maynard is re-created by the Assabet Village Minutemen each Patriot's Day as they follow the route taken two centuries ago by the original Minutemen from this area.
The Assabet Village Minutemen are members of the Council of Minutemen and attend musters, parades, and many other activities sponsored by other companies of the Council throughout Maine and Massachusetts, as well as many other Colonial functions held in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New York.
As the Bicentennial of the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1975 and the National Bicentennial in 1976 nears, the activities of Colonial units increase. The Company of Assabet Village Minutemen have accepted many invitations to participate in ceremonies and other functions for the remainder of this year as well as the Bicentennial years and would like to invite all of our fellow countrymen to join with us in celebrating the birth of this great nation we live in and enjoy today.
Assabet Village Minutemen to hold Ist Annual Colonial Day in Maynard.
Maynard, Mass.
June 16th, 1974
The Assabet Village Minutemen of Maynard, Massachusetts, will hold their Ist annual "Colonial Day" in Maynard on Sunday, June 23rd, 1974. This will
feature a Parade consisting of Minutemen and Militia units starting at 2:00 P.M. followed by a display of Colonial Arts and Crafts at the Maynard Rod & Gun Club, off Waltham Street.
Colonial Units from New Hampshire and Massachusetts will participate in the first event of this kind to be held in Maynard. The parade will form in the
Digital Equipment Corporation parking lot on Main Street (Route 62) at 1:30
and step off at 2:00 o'clock. The line of march will be out on to Front Street, right on Sudbury Street, right on to Main Street, down Main Street on to Nason Street, up Nason Street, right on to Summer Street to the reviewing stand at Memorial Park where streamers will be awarded to participating units. After the review and presentation of streamers, the parade will continue down Summer Street, to the intersection with Main Street, turn right on to Main Street and follow Main Street to the Digital parking lot where the parade will terminate.
Following the parade there will be a display of Colonial Arts and Crafts at the
Maynard Rod & Gun Club sponsored by the Assabet Village Minutemen and presented by the individual Minutemen and Militia Companies in attendance. The public is cordially invited to visit the Arts and Crafts exhibition and view the Colonial items made by these 20th Century craftsmen.
The Company of Assabet Village Minutemen was formed on April 12th, 1971, to recreate the events and perpetuate the memory of the original Minutemen from Maynard.
In 1775 the Town of Maynard did not exist as we know it today. It was then
just a village on the Assabet River; partly in Stow, and partly in Sudbury, as the Assabet River was the boundary between these two Colonial towns.
When the call came early on that April morning in 1775, the men of the Assabet Village fell in with their respective companies in Stow and Sudbury and prepared to defend their rights as free men against the soldiers of their King, at Concord.
This march to Concord from Maynard is re-created by the Assabet Village Minutemen each Patriot's Day as they follow the route taken two centuries ago by the original Minutemen from this area.
The Assabet Village Minutemen are members of the Council of Minutemen and attend musters, parades, and many other activities sponsored by other companies of the Council throughout Maine and Massachusetts, as well as many other Colonial functions held in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New York.
As the Bicentennial of the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1975 and the National Bicentennial in 1976 nears, the activities of Colonial units increase. The Company of Assabet Village Minutemen have accepted many invitations to participate in ceremonies and other functions for the remainder of this year as well as the Bicentennial years and would like to invite all of our fellow countrymen to join with us in celebrating the birth of this great nation we live in and enjoy today.