After protesters dumped the tea into the harbor 250 years ago, they tossed the chests it had been in into the harbor as well. J.L. Bell posts a copy of an account by Rev. Dr. John Prince of Salem, who watched the Tea Party and then returned to the wharf the next morning: Read more.
State House mural in 1908.
J.L. Bell compiles a chestload of links to videos and articles about the Boston Tea Party in advance of Saturday's 250th anniversary.
Baldwin Coolidge's 1908 photograph of a State House mural from the BPL's Boston Pictorial Archive.
The locals said they dumped 342 chests of tea overboard in ye olde tea party, but the owner of the ships only put in for compensation for 340. What happened to those other two chests? J.L. Bell ponders.
With today the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, J.L. Bell has been taking a look at some of the people involved, including a Bostonian who happened to be in London when the 1773 Tea Act was passed and so was able to secure his family one of the contracts to import East India Company tea, and some of the other Boston merchants who'd secured what they thought would be lucrative contracts as tea wholesalers.
Even before the tea party itself, though, things were going south in Boston.
Quite a bit, it turns out. J.L. Bell gives us a preview of a talk at Old South Meeting House this Thursday by Bruce Richardson on "Five Teas that Launched a Revolution."
Boston-based Democratic Politcal Consultant Jim Spencer, along with Curtis Ellis, a Democratic Political Consultant in New York, pen an op-ed in today's LA Times that suggests the Tea Party members are the same people who protested in the 60s. Are the Tea Party crowd just refurbished pot-smoking hippies?
J.L. Bell discusses possibilities (seems that even after the Revolution was over, participants were reluctant to come forward) - and thinks he knows who released the first list of tea throwers, back in 1835.
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