Bells Across the Land: A Nation Remembers Appomattox – April 9
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church – April 9, 2015 @ 1:45pm
As part of the National Park Service’s, “Bells Across the Land: A Nation Remembers Appomattox,” event, commemorating the end of the Civil War, a program will be held at the historic, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Northeast Minneapolis. The program will begin at 1:45 and culminate with the ringing of the bells at 2:15.
Join the National Park Service, members of the Minnesota Civil War Task Force, officials from the Our Lady of Lourdes and Civil War reenactors for this program, remembering this important event in our history.
In conjunction with a major event at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, the National Park Service and its partners invite communities across the nation to join in this commemoration. The bells will ring first at Appomattox at 2:00 p.m. on April 9, 2015. The ringing will coincide with the moment the historic meeting between Grant and Lee in the McLean House at Appomattox Court House ended. While Lee’s surrender did not end the Civil War, the act is seen by most Americans as the symbolic end of four years of bloodshed.
Churches, temples, schools, city halls, public buildings, historic sites, and others are invited to ring bells precisely at 2:15 pm for four minutes (each minute symbolic of a year of war).
More details here.