![]() The Green Dragon Tavern was home to the St Andrews Freemason lodge, the Loyal Nine, the Sons of Liberty, and the Boston Committee of Correspondence. ![]() If y ou prefer coffee, try the Green Dragon bundle. Or choose the East India Company bundle, with a beautiful stoneware mug decorated with the same company trademark that adorned the chests that Bostonians chopped open, alongside a canister of Oolong tea with a matching East India Company trademark. Join the party with Liberty & Co’s Teas of the Boston Tea Party, a selection of four period-appropriate loose leaf teas presented in corked glass vials in a wooden display case. The Boston Tea Party was one of the first revolutionary acts, with disguised Bostonians dumping 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. One of their latest offerings is a line of historically accurate coffee and tea by Oliver Pluff. This week’s podcast is sponsored by Liberty & Co, who sell unique products inspired by the American Revolution. ![]() Then we’ll close out the show with a quick look at the present and future of Boston Light on Little Brewster Island. We’ll also look at the founding father who was moved to poetry by the tragedy, as well as the centuries long search for Ben Franklin’s lost verses and a 20th century hoax that got repeated as truth. To find out what happened that morning, we’re going to look at what Boston Harbor was like before the construction of Boston Light, why Boston Harbor needed a lighthouse, how it got built, and who was chosen as the first keeper. In November 1718, a tragedy on Boston Harbor cut short the lives of six people, including the first keeper of Boston Light and four members of his household. ![]()
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