Boxborough's annual Fifer's Day Fair commemorates Luther Blanchard, the fifer who marched with the local minuteman company to the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775. At the North Bridge, minutemen companies from various towns of the Commonwealth successfully engaged the British, forcing the redcoats to retreat. He is believed to be buried in the Blanchard family plot in Boxborough, although there is no stone there marking the exact spot of his resting place.
