What We Do
 We participated in the Friends of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery bench dedication for Gold Star Families by placing a wreath.
Honoring Local Vietnam Veterans
Honored Veteran John Howard left with Chapter Regent Janine Penfield and Honored Veteran Doug Miller
We recently honored two Vietnam Veterans with Eagle Pins. To read about the national program and other honored Veterans see the Concord Journal article
Patriot's Day Parade 2022 
We are standing above North Bridge on what was Captain David Brown’s land on April 19, 1775 as we participated in the marched to Old North Bridge where “the shot was heard round the world” on Patriot's Day. 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
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The Old Concord Chapter of the DAR announces the Good Citizen awards: from Concord MA Sabrina Marie Comeau (Concord-Carlisle High School), from Stow, MA Brayden Matthew Duprey (Nashoba Regional High School), from Acton, MA, Camden Liam Finkelman (Acton-Boxborough Regional High School), from Marlborough, MA Rhea Sanjay Khanderia(Marlborough High School), and from Clinton, MA, Bruna Fonseca Oliveira(Hudson High School), from Hudson, MA Jayna Tang(Assabet Valley Regional High School). More information will follow
Memorial Day 2022 in West Concord
Wreath Laying on Veterans Day 
The Old Concord Chapter Daughters of American Revolution participated 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.
Veterans Day
Concord’s Veterans services Officer, Dick Krug, near the Veterans Office entrance on Church street standing by
the OCC wreath for Veterans Day 2022. 
We participated in Concord's Veterans Day ceremony 2022 at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery by placing a wreath at the cemetery’s flagpole.
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December 2021 At our 2021 Holiday Party, our state regent Mrs. Paula P. Renkas joined us. We presented her with a $6000.00 check to be used for her special project on preserving the Massachusetts real granddaughters' scrapbooks.
A real daughter was a DAR member as well as the actual daughter of a soldier or patriot. In the early history of the DAR there were as many as 767 Real Daughters. |
Concord Firemen accept toys donated by OCC DAR members for the Concord Firefighters Relief Association and IAFF Local 1942 Toy Drive at Concord’s Fire Station in 2021
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December Program
Members not only enjoyed a lovey lunch during our meeting but also donate new unwrapped toys for the Toys for the Concord Firefighters Relief Association and IAFF Local 1942 Toy Drive at Concord’s Fire Station. These donations will go to families who cannot afford to buy gifts for their children during the holidays. Over 85 new toys went to families this year.
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Courtesy photo at 2018 OCC DAR meeting
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November ProgramWe 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. |
