OLD CONCORD CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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What We Do

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​DAR Good Citizens Award 

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Every year we present six DAR Good Citizens Awards to high school students in and around the Concord area to commend them for their excellent service to their schools and communities. We also present community service and historic/conservation awards to members of the community during our March meeting.
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Patriot's Day Parade

The Worcester Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter NSDAR joined us for Concord’s Patriot Day Parade. We marched to Old North Bridge where “the shot heard round the world” happened and where, for the first time, colonial militia were commanded to shoot at British soldiers. This was the start of the American Revolution on April 19th, 1775. Learn more

Historic Preservation

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Historic Preservation Grant given to Boxborough Historical Society President Jeanne Steele Kangas on behalf of the Society  from the Old Concord Chapter.

The $500 Grant was used to repair and restore the front doorway and threshold of the 1784 Levi Wetherbee (Steele) farmhouse on Middle Road in Boxborough.  See the Concord Journal article


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Wreath Laying on Veterans Day

The Old Concord Chapter Daughters of American Revolution in Acton’s Veterans Day Ceremony by placing a wreath at the town common’s Isaac Davis Memorial.  Isaac Davis commanded a company of minutemen from Acton on April 19, 1775 at Concord’s Old North Bridge and was the first American officer to die in the American Revolution.  This makes Isaac Davis among the first U.S. Veterans to be killed. ​

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Veterans Day 2020 wreath with Concord’s Administrative Manager, Christopher Carmody near the Veterans Office entrance in Concord’s temporary Town House during the Town House renovations.
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At the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital - Salem’s Colonel Timothy Pickering D.A.R. Chapter; Old Concord D.A.R. Chapter; Lexington D.A.R. Chapter; and Brockton’s Deborah Sampson D.A.R. Chapter members attended
On Valentine’s Day, we volunteered for the national salute to hospitalized veterans at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital with a visit to admitted patients.

We also remember our troops and veterans by donating needed clothing, writing many thank you cards and donating funds to provide Trees for Troops at Christmas time.

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Concord Firemen accept toys donated by OCC DAR members for Toys for Tots drive with Regent Goddard-Lyle in 2019

December Program

Members not only enjoyed a lovey lunch during our meeting but also donated new unwrapped toys for the Toys for Tots program run by the Concord Fire Department.  These donations will go to families who cannot afford to buy gifts for their children during the holidays. Over 50 new toys went to families this year.

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Courtesy photo at 2018 OCC DAR meeting

November Program

We enjoyed a presentation by Steven Taskovics on the military importance of fifes and drums with their various styles and locally documented sources of eighteenth century musician veterans, John Nixon, Jr. and Luther Blanchard. 

Steven Taskovics is a life-long fifer and has been a
​re-enactor since the bicentennial of the United States celebration of the American Revolutionary War in the 1976.  He is currently the colonel of the recreated French unit Saintonge, and also in the Middlesex County Volunteers and in the Sudbury Militia Company.
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Concord's WWI Memorial on Veterans Day 2018. Image by Craig Fontaine.
Image at Freemason's Time Capsule Presentation 2018At the Corinthian Lodge of Freemasons. Image by Craig Fontaine

1​00th Anniversary of WWI Armistice on Veterans Day 2018

Daughters distributed red poppies and copies of the poem “In Flanders Fields," written by John McCrae during WWI, in front of Concord’s WWI memorial on Veteran’s Day. We also placed wreaths at the WWI memorial in Concord Center and at West Concord’s Kenneth Dunn Square memorial.  The Daughters insured the nearby church bells rang at 11 a.m. for the remembrance of the Armistice. 

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We also participated in Concord’s Corinthian Lodge of Freemasons celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the WWI Armistice on Veterans Day 2018. The Freemasons opened up their time capsule and the Old Concord Chapter NSDAR  provided  25 red poppies, each labeled with a name from Concord’s WWI Memorial on Concord's common. A copy of John McCrae’s poem, “In Flanders Fields, was also provided for the time capsule to be opened in another  hundred years.

DAR Mission Areas

​Historic Preservation
Maintenance of DAR monuments in the Concord area to preserve our cultural heritage.
Education
Contribution to schools and students by providing support through chapter and member donations both financially and time spent with youth during programs and outreach.
Patriotism
To cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; to foster true patriotism and love of country, and to aid in securing mankind all the blessings of liberty. 
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​Last Updated: 4/8/21

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  • Welcome
  • About Us
  • What we do
  • Our Patriots
  • Concord on April 19, 1775
  • Commerative Revolutionary War Events
  • Contact Us
  • In The Concord Jounal
    • During the Pandemic
    • Historic Preservation Grant
    • Constitution Week 2020
    • The Wayside
    • Remember August 26, 1920