Boston to capitalise on Tea Party by building museum at historic site
Boston is planning to build a new museum on the site of the Tea Party, the Revolutionary event in which colonists protested against British tax by dumping three ship loads' worth of tea into the harbour.
All that currently marks the site of the 1773 protest in the Fort Point Channel is a commemorative plaque. But as the namesake Right-wing movement continues to grow in prominence and success, the Massachusetts city has announced plans to build a museum that would include restoring models of the three ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, that carried the tea.
The interactive venue would invite visitors to participate in a re-enactment of the event. Tourists would be led by a Samuel Adams impersonator to the ships, where they would throw boxes of tea into Fort Point Channel....
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All that currently marks the site of the 1773 protest in the Fort Point Channel is a commemorative plaque. But as the namesake Right-wing movement continues to grow in prominence and success, the Massachusetts city has announced plans to build a museum that would include restoring models of the three ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, that carried the tea.
The interactive venue would invite visitors to participate in a re-enactment of the event. Tourists would be led by a Samuel Adams impersonator to the ships, where they would throw boxes of tea into Fort Point Channel....