Paul Revere At 50
The following excerpt describing how Paul Revere saw life at age 50 is from “Paul Revere And The World He Lived In” by Esther Forbes.
“Very few people ever live their middle years in the same world they grow up in as children. None whose lives have been broken in two by a great war ever do, and none of Paul Revere’s generation did. They could fall to rioting, as they did in the western part of (Massachusetts.) They could slip into embittered old age as did Samuel Adams. Or they could take things as they found them and go ahead. Paul Revere did the last.”
Regardless of if you’ve been in a war or not, this seemed to me a useful passage for people of all ages.
Above is a picture of the Boston house Paul Revere lived in for much of his life. Please click here for a Paul Revere reading list. Paul Revere lived 1735-1818.
