Dear Humans,

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells us that the “hurrying hoofbeats” of Paul Revere’s midnight ride will echo “through all our history,” leading Americans to always meet our problems “with defiance and not…fear.”

It was true in 1860 when Longfellow wrote the poem to encourage the Union cause against slavery and succession. And it was true 70 years later when Grant Wood painted The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere at the beginning of the Great Depression. And still true the next year at Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inauguration when he reminded Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

And may we still hear those hoofbeats today as we face new problems with the same resolve and single-mindedness that Paul Revere showed on that night.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt