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Concord’s Old Manse a testament to history

By Christopher Klein

 |  Globe correspondent  

  November 27, 2011

As the guns roared on April 19, 1775, the gray clapboard parsonage alongside the Concord River must have turned red with envy. Not satisfied at merely witnessing the ignition of the Revolutionary War, the Old Manse eventually sparked a second American revolution - a literary and intellectual movement that shaped the young country.

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