“Paul Revere's Ride”

The event has been immortalized in the line “One if by land, and two if by sea” in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.”

Imari K. Paris Jeffries, the executive director of Embrace Boston, said that he hopes when people visit Boston eager to learn about the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere’s ride in 1775, they’ll also get a taste of the city’s diverse history as well.

The event was immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.”

The Red Sox have been scheduled to play at home on that day, a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine that celebrates Paul Revere’s ride and the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, every year since 1959.

His backup plan - lighting either one or two lanterns as signals from the steeple of Boston’s Old North Church - is immortalized in a line in “Paul Revere’s Ride,” a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem: “One if by land, and two if by sea …”