We are delighted to announce that the Thomas L. Phillips Sr. Prayer Breakfast will have our 6th breakfast of the 2025-2026 season on Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:30AM.
There will be a full breakfast [with donations graciously accepted to our 501(c)(3) Organization, suggested: $30]
Our speaker: David Seuss
As the sun rose higher above Lexington Green on the morning of April 19th, 1775, it was shining on a world that was forever changed. The events of that morning would reverberate forward irreversibly changing the course of human history. The American Revolution had started and the country that would most profoundly influence the political, economic, social, and military future of mankind was being born.
Historical events are always complex chains of events, with outcomes that are not inevitable. Very few decisions in those chains commit the future to a specific path because a later decision by another person could reset the momentum and divert the course of events. But finally comes that one person who is the last person in the chain. One last person whose solitary decision causes all possible futures to collapse into one single path forward.
Who was that person on the morning of April 19th, 1775?
David Seuss will present an analysis of this question focusing on reports written by the participants. As it turns out, the key player may not be who you thought it was.
David is an amateur historian with a life-long interest in the American Revolution and the American Civil War. He is a Color Bearer of the American Battlefield Trust. The Trust acquires and protects landscapes of historical significance ensuring these places remain as living memorials and educational spaces for future generations. For example, a recent Trust project in Massachusetts was the preservation of the “Parker’s Revenge” site where John Parker reassembled the Lexington Militia after the fighting on the Geen and conducted one of the many ambushes of the British column retreating from Concord along the Battle Road. The Color Bearers are a special core group of supporters the Trust recognizes for their significant commitment to preserving historical battlefields. David has an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
David’s business career includes being an engineer in manufacturing plants, manager of consulting teams at the Boston Consulting Group, and the founder/CEO of two software companies, one of which he took public. His current company, AI-based solution provider Northern Light, is named after a record-setting clipper ship built in Boston in 1851. David is the chairperson for Grace Chapel’s GC Science book club that focuses on the relationship of science and faith. He lives on the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown (ironic for a battlefield preservationist) with Priscilla, his wife of 45 years.
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