“Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
The Home of Paul Revere
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse’s side,
Now he gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We were excited to attend and participate in the first New England regional PAII trade show and conference earlier this month in Nashua New Hampshire.
