A New Monument Honors Lexington’s Unsung Patriots This April 19th

Each April 19th, Lexington celebrates the first battles of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord. This year marks the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of those battles. Festivities include several re-enactments between Colonial minutemen and British Red Coats, pancake breakfasts, fife and drum performances, a five-mile road race, and a bicentennial band concert—not to mention the arrival of Paul Revere and William Dawson on horseback from Boston.

Click the link below to hear a young Lexington fife and drum corps perform Yankee Doodle

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3DQbSyqV

The Lexington Minuteman stands guard on the common

And don’t miss a new addition to Lexington’s honored patriots–a statue honoring twenty-four of the many unheralded women who helped build our nation.

The Lexington Women’s Monument is the brainchild of the LexSeeHer organization, founded in March 2020 and led by Jesse Steigerwald. The privately funded effort grew to include many other supporters, and the monument was unveiled in May 2024.

Honoring those bold women required a bold architect—enter accomplished sculptor Meredith Bergman, who found the right shape and format “to honor the sweep of history, and by portraying diverse women to show the range of their achievements.”  

Sculptor, Meredith Bergman, stands in the archway of the statue she created

Visitors can purchase a copy of Jesse Steigerwald’s book, Something Must Be Done! The Lexington Women’s Monument, from Wales Copy Shop or Maxima Book Center, in Lexington Center. 

Check out the LexSeeHer website: https://www.lexseeher.com/