All posts tagged "tea"
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4.5KMassachusettsThe Death of Chow in Boston Harbor, 1798
Among the graves of British and American Revolutionary War soldiers on Boston Common lies the body of a 19-year old Chinese teenager...
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5.8KPolitics and MilitaryThe Providence Tea Party: On Dry Land, in Daylight and Thrown By Women
Rhode Island patriots had no more love for tea than did their allies in Boston, and on March 2, 1775, they threw...
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31.5K9ConnecticutThe Female Food Riots of the American Revolution
Between 1776 and 1779, food shortages caused more than 30 food riots in the American colonies. Angry men and women accosted merchants...
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8.7K3Politics and MilitaryJohn Andrews Informs Philadelphia of the Trouble with Tea in 1773
John Andrews regularly wrote to his brother-in-law in Philadelphia with the latest news, gossip and scandal in Boston in 1773. For the...
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38.2K11Arts and LeisureMary Had a Little Lamb – Yes, There Was a Mary and She Did Have a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb, the childhood nursery rhyme familiar to all, tells the story of a real Mary, a real lamb,...
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6.1K4Arts and LeisureEdith Wharton Invites That Awful F. Scott Fitzgerald to Tea
Edith Wharton belonged to the old-money, upper-crust New York society to which F. Scott Fitzgerald aspired. Wharton, like the much younger Fitzgerald,...
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