2026 RT - Boston part 2
Hi! We are still enjoying Boston! The weather forecast has been inaccurate but the weather good! LOL On Tuesday we started the day at the Boston Tea Party museum. I really wanted to see this but was skeptical about a $39 museum. Dear reader, it was awesome! It starts out on December 16, 1773 in the Old South Meeting Hall with an interactive re-enactment of the meeting that preceded the actual Boston Tea Party. The three ships loaded with 90,000+ pounds of tea have been in the harbor for almost 20 days. The law states that they have to be unloaded within 20 days and the tax on the tea paid. The Sons of Liberty had guarded the harbor to make sure that no one unloaded the tea because they didn't want to pay the tax. Something had to be done by day 20. They couldn't steal the ships or steal the tea and offload it. It was decided that they would dump the tea in the harbor. This was an act of tyranny! This boat is an exact replica of one of the tea-laden ships. In 1770 the women in B...
