This photo shows the group of men who took part in 1913 pageant and who re-enacted the capture of the British supply wagon, April 19th, 1775. The man in black face portrays David Lamson, a mixed race individual, who had some military experience and who led the exempts, the "Old Men of Menotomy". The picture was taken from the junction of Falmouth Road and Mystic Street. The photographer is likely William J. Doane or his studio. The picture comes indirectly from an auction in Maine in the fall of 2003, when, we speculate, the estate of Ruth Hynes Kistler was auctioned off. Ms. Kistler was the step-granddaughter of Doane and died in Bath, Me, Sept 15, 2003. My [Mahoney's] speculation is that the photo (and others in my Doane collection) went with the Hynes family when they moved to Bath, Me from Melrose, MA in about 1933. Reenactor portraying David Lamson appears to be in blackface
