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• On the event Book Group Dinner & Discussion

  Amanda Grant

  10:14 am on Friday, January 11, 2013

  This event has been relocated to the Depot Building!

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• On the event Re-enactment of Lexington tea burning (December 13, 1773)

  

  Amanda Grant

  1:15 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012

  Three days before the Boston Tea Party, citizens of Lexington burned all their tea in a common bonfire. Lexington’s minister Jonas Clarke issued an incendiary declaration of support for the people of Boston, warning that anyone in Lexington who consumed tea would be treated “as an enemy of this town and this country.” Clarke’s fiery words resonate through history, a foreshadowing of events to come: “Should the State of Our Affairs require it, We shall be ready to Sacrifice our Estates, and every thing dear in Life, Yea & Life itself, in support of the common Cause.”