Tag: travel
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May 1775: The Patriot
This is the story of an American Patriot. He was from New Haven, CT, and his father died when he was very young; as a result, he could not afford to attend Yale with his cohorts. This left him with a sense of insecurity that he overcame by sailing on numerous trade voyages to the…
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April 19-24, 1775: Israel’s Ride
News spreads fast. Here’s how. On Wednesday, April 19, 1775, in Watertown MA near Boston, Joseph Palmer, a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, learned about what had happened that morning in Lexington. He wrote and dispatched what has become known to historians as the ‘Lexington Alarm’: “To all the friends of American liberty…
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April 18, 1775: Unfound Fathers
LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear‘Bout the other guys not named Revere.On Eighteenth April, Seventy-FiveThese other two were yet aliveAnd rode too on that day and year.And though today we hardly pauseTo recreate forgotten fameTheir heroism was yet the sameWith long-lost names of Prescott and Dawes. While the Silversmith was talking lights(One or two…
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December, 1774: The Shot, Not
As the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party approached, tensions were running high throughout New England. The port of Boston had been closed by numerous British ships, including a 50-gun man-of-war floating in the harbor, and another in the Charles River. The only entrance to the town was guarded by a regiment on either side…
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