Boston Tea Party turns 250 years old with reenactments of the revolutionary protest
…on polluting Boston Harbor has probably run out by now for the 1773 crowd and I suppose the guys who did it yesterday had some special dispensation but until I know for sure it's run out for me I am not going to mention ever doing such a thing myself, no indeed.
And if I did…
Tea for the reenactment was supplied by the East India Co., the same British company that was at the center of the raucous dispute.…and I am not saying I did, let's be clear about that…it would likely have been plain old Lipton.
During the historic event, protesting “taxation without representation,” members of the Sons of Liberty and others boarded East India Co. ships and dumped their valuable haul — some 92,000 pounds (41,700 kilograms) of tea worth nearly $2 million today — into the murky waters of Boston Harbor.
And definitely not that much.
Only just a pinch.
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