Description
The Cambridge Veterans’ Organization (CVO) and the City of Cambridge’s Department of Veterans’ Services will hold their annual Patriots' Day Observance.
Philip Anderson, CVO President, will serve as Master of Ceremonies. Mayor David Maher will extend the City’s greetings. Chaplain Major General Douglas L. Carver, United States Army retired, will deliver the keynote address.
The event will be highlighted with a reenactment of Patriot William Dawes, Jr's historic horseback ride from Boston to Cambridge alerting the colonists of the British threat of 1775. Patriot Dawes, dressed in colonial garb, will deliver the alert to Mayor Maher followed by the blowing of TAPS by bugler, Robinson Pyle.
Evie Hartenstein, Cambridge Rindge & Latin School Drama student, will read the Governor’s Patriots’ Day Proclamation. CRLS music student, Douglas Appleman, will sing the National Anthem and God Bless America.