For Poetry Month we are revisting San Francisco poet Q.R. Hand Jr.'s 1983 reading at the South Market Cultural Center.

The iconic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "Paul Revere's Ride" begins, "Listen, my children ..." And, sure enough, we have long told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in April 1775, when ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It ...

Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary fame — whose trio sang before Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech" in ...

Most people have learned about Paul Revere's midnight ride, but on Friday night people got to see that pivotal night in ...

It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations ...

Lanterns were lit across the state, readings of Longfellow's epic poem were held in Augusta and Portland, and bells were rung ...

Paul Revere's famous ride, which started late on the night of April 18, 1775, was immortalized in the poem written by Portland native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Like all legendary events, Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord have been encrusted with myth.

We followed the route of Revere’s famous midnight ride. Along the way we spoke to many Americans who felt a sense of wonder ...

America celebrates its 250th anni[1]versary as a nation on July 4, 2026, the date the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...