SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY HERE by end of the day April 30, 2024 Calling all high school writers! Compete in a short essay contest to receive a $500 cash honorarium to invest in your future! The top 5 submissions will get published and will receive a $500 cash honorarium. If you like to write at all, please...
Events to learn about local native son and WW2 Hero Lt. Benjamin Ralph Kimlau and his sacrifice to preserve and protect freedom and democracy Watch starting at around 21:45. More details to come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=q2IGpmtRpLU&feature=youtu.be
May 15, Naturalization Ceremony at Old North Bridge will be held May 15, more details to come. National Park Service and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services event. Part of Concord 250; details to come.
Benjamin Ralph Kimlau (金勞少尉) (April 11, 1918 – March 5, 1944) was a Chinese American aviator and United States Air Force bomber pilot and native son of Concord. Kimlau was born in Concord on April 10, 1918, and lived in the area until he was 14. His father was a chemist, and his mother was...
Join Dartmouth College Historian Matthew F. Delmont for a forum on his award-winning new book Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. More than one million Black soldiers served in World War II in segregated units while waging a dual battle against inequality in the very country for...
Concord will honor those who served on Monday, May 27, 9 a.m. at Rideout Field 9 a.m. and Monument Square 11 a.m.. The Concord Independent Battery, Concord Minutemen, Concord Police Honor Guard will participate in the ceremony in conjunction with Town of Concord veterans.
