What does the speaker mean by the statement that ""hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year""?

Anyone who remembered Paul Revere or the Revolutionary War would have to be really old.

Explanation:

In Paul Revere's Ride by Longfellow poem, the speaker statement that "hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year" first indicate that the speaker is someone older and wiser because the poem was written much later in 1860 and anyone who remembered Paul Revere or the Revolutionary War would have to be really old.It shoud be of important to note that Longfellow wrote Paul Revere Ride right before the Civil War.

north east because it has more forest