![]() ![]() Young’s shoemaker is George Robert Twelves Hewes (the curious “Twelves” was apparently a family name) who was born in Boston in 1742. ![]() When it was remembered at all during that half century (which was rarely), it was as “the destruction of the tea,” the more “serious and reverential” term that appears on Charles Bulfinch’s 1790 monument to the Revolution standing (in an 1898 reconstruction) behind the State House. Young details in this fine account of one of the participants and of how the event was remembered, it did not become the “Tea Party” - with that “faintly comic and irreverent” connotation - until close to half a century later. No need to trot out a squad of musket-toting Redcoats just some face paint, some old clothes, and a buoyant box or two to toss off the Tea Party ship into the Fort Point Channel.īut as historian Alfred F. An easily told story, it also makes for easy re-enactment. The Boston Tea Party may be the most easily apprehended of all the events in Boston that led up to the Revolution. THE SHOEMAKER AND THE TEA PARTY: Memory and the American Revolution. ![]()
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