Paul Revere’s bell in Falmouth, Massachusetts, was cast in 1796. The church still possesses the original receipt, written in Revere’s handwriting. It says they paid $338.94. The bell waits for its cue, its chance to ring out the Sunday meeting, as it’s done for more than two hundred years. It rang on the day of Katie’s father’s funeral in 1859, and again when the women of the congregation draped their mourning shawls over the windows after Abraham Lincoln was shot. The outside of the bell reads, “The living to the church I call, and to the grave I summon all.”[8]
