Joseph Cummins: Ten Tea Parties, Patriotic Protests That History Forgot
\nThe stories in Ten Tea Parties illuminate the power of Americans banding together as Americans<\/p>\n
To borrow a copy of the book, contact Linda at director@museum.westford.org<\/a><\/p>\n We all know the story of the Boston Tea Party, but do you know the history the Philadelphia Tea Party, or the York Tea Party? Or how about the Wilmington Tea Party? Ten Tea Parties is the first book to chronicle all these uniquely American protests. Author and historian Joseph Cummins begins with the history of the East India Company (the biggest global corporation in the eighteenth century) and their staggering financial losses during the Boston Party- move than a million dollars in today\u2019s money. We then travel to Philadelphia where Captain Samuel Ayres was nearly tarred and feathered by a mob of 8,000 angry patriots. Then we set sail for New York where the Sons of Liberty raided the London, and heaved 18 chests of tea into the Hudson River. Still later, in Annapolis, a brigantine carrying 2,300 pounds of the \u201cwretched weed\u201d was burned to ashes. Together, the stories in Ten Tea Parties illuminate the power of Americans banding together as Americans- perhaps for the first time in the fledgling nation\u2019s history. It is no wonder that these patriots remain an inspiration to many people to this day. Order book here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Discussion led by Leslie Howard, President, Westford Historical Society<\/p>\n Suggestion Program Donation: $10 per person<\/p>\n Photo courtesy of the Westford Historical Society & Museum<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joseph Cummins: Ten Tea Parties, Patriotic Protests That History Forgot The stories in Ten Tea Parties illuminate the power of Americans banding together as Americans To borrow a copy of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17470,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tag":[124],"tribe_events_cat":[101],"class_list":["post-17469","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-patriots-day","tribe_events_cat-talks","cat_talks"],"acf":{"explore_list_featured_select":"2","select_experience":[1866],"select_topic":[1878],"select_theme":[1890,1891],"select_location":[1960,1905],"select_audience":false,"descriptor":"Things to Do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/17469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/17469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17472,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/17469\/revisions\/17472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag?post=17469"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=17469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}