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SUMMARY:The Boston Tea Party with Professor Robert Allison
DESCRIPTION:Professor Robert Allison joins the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum for a discussion on the impact of the Boston Tea Party on America’s road to Revolution.  As the cursed East India Company tea arrives in Boston Harbor between November 28th and December 15th 1773\, the town of Boston becomes gripped by the drama of this boiling “tea crisis”.  Intrigue developes between the Sons of Liberty and the tea Consignees while tensions rise at the Meetings of the Body of the People at Faneuil Hall and Old South Meeting House as demands and petitons are made to send the tea back to England. With the expiration of a 20-day deadline to land the tea looming\, the Sons of Liberty march to Griffin’s Wharf and into history. \nThursday October 5th\, 2023 at 7:00pm (Doors open 6:30pm) \nThis FREE hybrid event will take place in Abigail’s Tea Room at the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum located at 306 Congress Street\, Boston\, MA 02210 \nRegistration is Required. \nPlease note: IN-PERSON registration is now closed. \nTo register for the free ONLINE LIVESTREAM ONLY\, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K3JxpzSZTpy1n3q036B7DQ \nOnce registration is complete\, you will receive an email confirmation within 24 hours. \n  \nMore about the guest speaker: \n \nRobert J. Allison is a professor of history at Suffolk University. His books include The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World\, a biography of American naval hero Stephen Decatur\, and short books on the history of Boston\, the American Revolution\, and an edition of The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano\, or Gustavus Vassa\, the African. Two of his classes\, “Before 1776:  Life in Colonial America\,”  and “The Age of Benjamin Franklin” are available from The Great Courses. As chair of Revolution 250\, a consortium of organizations planning Revolutionary commemorations in Massachusetts\,  he hosts its weekly podcast (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1336051) featuring conversations on the Revolution with historians and interpreters.  He is President of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (https://www.colonialsociety.org/)\, a scholarly organization focused on early American history\, and a life-trustee of the USS CONSTITUTION Museum. \nFor contact information\, visit https://www.robertallisonhistory.com/ \n 
URL:https://www.december16.org/event/tea-talks-presents-the-boston-tea-party-with-professor-bob-allison
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SUMMARY:Boston Tea Party Participant Commemoration--Cambridge\, MA
DESCRIPTION:The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum and Revolution 250 will partner with the community of Cambridge\, MA to place a commemorative grave marker at the grave of John Hicks\, recognizing him as a participant in the event known as the Boston Tea Party on December 16\, 1773.\n\n\n\nThe ceremony will take place on Friday October 6th at 11:00am at the Old Burying Ground in Cambridge\, MA.\n\n\n\nThe ceremony will begin promptly at 11:00am at the memorial stone for John Hicks in Old Burying Ground\, Cambride. The event will feature remarks by community officials\, the Cambridge Historical Commission\, representatives from the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum\, Revolution 250\, and a descendant of John Hicks.\n\n\nThe Old Burying Ground is located in Harvard Square at Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street.\n\n\nThis outdoor free public event is part of a nationwide collaborative effort to place commemorative markers at the graves of known Boston Tea Party Participants in anticipation of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 2023.
URL:https://www.december16.org/event/boston-tea-party-participant-commemoration-cambridge-ma
LOCATION:Old Burying Ground\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum":MAILTO:eobrien@bostonteapartyships.com
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SUMMARY:"Huzzah! Drinking with John Hancock During the American Revolution" with Brooke Barbier
DESCRIPTION:***PLEASE NOTE: IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE IS NOW SOLD OUT! However\, you can register for the live-stream at the link below.*** \nWhen John Hancock needed to win people over\, he didn’t talk about resisting taxes–he served alcohol. He offered rum punch and wine at his home and paid for lavish meals in taverns to bring people together. By throwing parties\, Hancock gained social and political power among various groups of people\, which repeatedly paid dividends. He smiggled maderia into Boston and one of the most violent mobs during colonial resistance defended him. His popularity also ensured his backing of the Boston Tea Party would lead to broader support in town. \nJoin special guest Brook Barbier for a special night in Abigail’s Tea Room at the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum with historically-inspired cocktails or beer and lively and evocative stories that illuminate the critical role that drinking played in the social\, political\, and cultural fabric of the American Revolution. Brooke Barbier will discuss an oft-ignored aspect of colonial life: the high rate of alcohol consumption and how John Hancock used it to his advantage. She is the author of  King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father and owner of a popular tour company in Boston\, Ye Olde Tavern Tours. \nFriday October 13th\, 2023 at 7:00pm (Doors open 6:30pm) \nThis FREE hybrid event will take place in Abigail’s Tea Room at the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum located at 306 Congress Street\, Boston\, MA 02210. \nBoth alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available for purchase. \nRegistration is Required. \nIN-PERSON REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED \nTo register for the free ONLINE LIVESTREAM  please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q_YhkbEKQ0qtMLmRThuTEQ \nOnce registration is complete\, you will receive an email confirmation within 24 hours. \n  \nMore about our Guest Speaker: \n \nBrooke Barbier received her PhD in American History from Boston College\, researching Boston’s social and cultural life during and after the American Revolution. She is the author of the new book\, King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (out October 10 from Harvard University Press) and Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire. Because she believes beer makes history even better\, she founded Ye Olde Tavern Tours in 2013 to take guests to see revolutionary sites and drink inside historic taverns.
URL:https://www.december16.org/event/huzzah-drinking-with-john-hancock-during-the-american-revolution
LOCATION:Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum\, 306 Congress Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02210\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emerging Revolutionary War Presents: Rev War Revelry: Old South Meeting House & The Boston Tea Party
DESCRIPTION:As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party\, ERW welcomes Revolutionary Spaces to discuss their plans for the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party including their new exhibit on the destruction of propery in public protests. This program will also discuss the important role the Old South Meeting House in the Boston Tea Party and the history of this great historic site.\n\n\nTo watch the live steam click here:  https://fb.me/e/2zmwdUYSq
URL:https://www.december16.org/event/emerging-revolutionary-war-presents-rev-war-revelry-old-south-meeting-house-the-boston-tea-party
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SUMMARY:Faneuil Hall Event Tickets Available
DESCRIPTION:The 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party December 16th\, 2023. \nDon’t miss your chance to attend this historic event! FREE tickets available at 9:00am on Tuesday\, October 17th*. \n*Limit 4 per household.  \n1st Floor Tickets SOLD OUT\n2nd Floor Tickets SOLD OUT \nInside seats have SOLD OUT\, but  screens positioned on the plaza outside Faneuil Hall will also live stream this presentation to general public outside the building.
URL:https://www.december16.org/event/faneuil-hall-event-tickets
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SUMMARY:A Global Perspective on the Boston Tea Party: The Role of the East India Company
DESCRIPTION:In honor of the Boston Tea Party’s 250th Anniversary\, join Leena Bhatnagar\, economist and writer\, as she discusses how the British East India Company and global circumstances contributed to the event. In this virtual talk\, she will highlight how the British East India Company played a pivotal role in the British Empire’s economic and geopolitical ambitions in the late 18th century\, with its influence spanning from India to London to Boston. She will discuss how the East India Company’s commercial links influenced the views of colonial Boston’s economic and political leaders\, and how events in India and London in the early 1770s ultimately contributed to the Boston Tea Party in December 1773. She will also highlight how she explored these themes through her historical fiction novel\, The Tea Merchant. \nThe FREE online webinar will take place on Monday October 23\, 2023 at 6:00pm \nRegistration for this FREE online webinar is required.  \nRegister here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-jmCPPVFTo2ZSxJWF9wSFA \n  \n \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nLeena Bhatnagar is an economist and writer. She is an economist at the U.S. Treasury Department and volunteers as an Ambassador at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. She is also the best-selling author of The Tea Merchant\, a historical fiction novel leading up to the Boston Tea Party that explores the hidden threats the British East India Company brings from Bengal to the American colonies. She has a Master’s in International Economic Policy from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Finance from New York University. The daughter of Indian immigrants\, she is originally from Massachusetts and currently lives in Virginia. \nThis program is part of a series of programs associated with the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. \n 
URL:https://www.december16.org/event/a-global-perspective-on-the-boston-tea-party-the-role-of-the-east-india-company
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SUMMARY:Bringing Phillis to Life: A program by the Massachusetts Historical Society
DESCRIPTION:Massachusetts Historical Society presents: Bringing Phillis To Life \nwith Ade Solanke\, David Walkdstreicher\, CUNY\, and Tara Bynum\, University of Iowa \n  \nThis is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT\, WIC\, and ConnectorCare).  \nThe in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00. \nRegister to attend online \nRegister to attend in person \nPhillis in London\, a new play written by Ade Solanke\, dramatizes and reimagines Phillis Wheatley’s experience of being an enslaved African woman writer abroad in London in 1773. She was “celebrated” by the elite of the British empire\, despite visiting at the height of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Phillis Wheatley\, who published the first book by an African American woman\, has recently been the subject of plays and artistic renderings. Solanke will read an excerpt from the new play and consider\, in conversation with scholars David Waldstreicher and Tara Bynam\, the legacy of Wheatley and how artists have chosen to portray the writer. \nHybrid Event \nThe in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00. \nMasks are optional for this event. \nThe virtual program begins at 6:00 PM and will be hosted on the video conference platform\, Zoom. Registrants will receive a confirmation message with attendance information.
URL:https://www.december16.org/event/bringing-phillis-to-life
LOCATION:Massachusetts Historical Society\, 1154 Boylston Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02215\, United States
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