HAPPY PATRIOTS' DAY, EVERYBODY!:

Tap a toe to banjo as the Paul Revere museum celebrates 100 years (Kate Augusto, 4/18/08 , Boston Globe)

It will cost 25 cents today to hear third-graders recite poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, tap a toe to a vaudeville-style banjo player named Uncle Shoe, and eat a cake decorated to look like the olive-colored clapboard house once home to Paul Revere.

That's because the museum where Boston's most famous silversmith lived is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The Paul Revere House has rolled back the admission price to when it first opened on April 18, 1908.

Built in 1680, the home had been slated for demolition at the beginning of the last century when it was bought by one of Revere's descendants and restored.

You can hear our grandfather--Garner Corson, who was a custodian there for three decades--give a tour of the House here.

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Posted by Orrin Judd at April 21, 2008 8:25 AM