Blessed Days...In His Hands: Rainy Boston

A morning run, reflecting on how much I love cities!

Yes Please!

A good place to start on a rainy day, an Italian food market.

What to do today....

And then head to the cool downtown library!

Don't walk...run!

"Hazah!" Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum!

(Deveraux's travel journal...)

The Boston Tea Party

December 16th 1773

When I threw the burlap bags of tea into Boston harbor I felt patriotic and I imagined that the early Americans felt the same. When we were at the Boston Tea Party Ships And Museum I learned a lot that I want to share, so let’s began.

The Boston Tea Party started with the British who were putting taxes on Americans tea, and these teas were even the oldest and worst of the lot!! Do you like tea? I do and I wouldn’t want to pay tax on the worst of the lot.

The early Americans who were frustrated with these injustices wanted to do a giant and kind of crazy act to show how they felt. They were tired of being under a distant country’s rule with no room for change. So they decided throwing tea into into the harbor would be the best thing.

I can’t imagine how brave they must have been. Now this elusive group limited to about twenty people were “the Sons of Liberty,” and any family or friends that wanted to also partake in this dangerous and criminal act were invited to join the rebellion. Would you partake? I think it would be hard to know if you would be safe after you threw the tea in the harbor because you had broken the law.

Late at night, the group went to the harbor and got on a “Son of Liberty’s” co-owned boat. The “Sons of Liberty” split the tea boxes open and threw handfuls of tea into the Boston harbor, then they broke the boxes smaller and threw the wood into the harbor as well.

Imagine how hard it would be to throw your morning tea into the harbor. When they were finished, they quickly left and for weeks to come they had to keep quiet about what they had done.

The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum tour was very good, My highlight was throwing tea into the harbor and watching the water as it made a splash. In one area of the museum, the portraits came alive and talked to you, kind of like FaceTime. We also heard this amazing story. A wooden tea chest had been thrown into the water without being spilt and it had washed up on someone’s shore. They picked up the tea chest and hid it. The box was handed down family lines and used for different purposes. The chest reached its final resting place and was donated to the museum. For my souvenir, I chose a little tea chest just like the real one because I think it is such a cool story.

A number of colonists were inspired by the Boston Tea Party to carry out similar acts. The Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1713, eventually proved to be one of the many reactions that led to the American Revolutionary War which started on April 19,1775. So we must thank those people for they stood up for what they believed.