Acton 250: Robbins Ride reenactment draws a crowd
About 100 residents gathered at the Faulkner House early Friday evening to see the reenactment of the alarm ride of April 19, 1775. Members of the Acton Minutemen re-enact this event every year, with riders portraying Samuel Prescott and Captain Robbins’ 13-year-old son John Prescott, who rode to Colonel Faulkner’s house at 5 High Street to warn him to muster his militia after receiving the alarm themselves from Dr. Samuel Prescott, who rode in from Concord. When they get to Faulkner House, the riders wake up Colonel Francis Faulkner, who quickly comes out – still in his nightclothes, but with…
