The struggle for independence is more than charts, trends, and abstract academic theories.   It is the story of what Patrick Henry labeled "wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty!"   

Re-live that great struggle with us and bring the American Revolution alive.
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The Prologue to War
Interactive Living History Focusing on the Causes of the War

  
 

After your arrival, you will be accused of smuggling!   In a brief  recreation of the Gaspee Affair, the infamous Lieutenant Dudingston of his majesty's customs service, will threaten you with an admiralty court trial!   Just as you are about to be bound off for trial, the worthy citizens of Providence come to your rescue.    You will witness here a brief re-creation of a skirmish between British Regulars ("Redcoats") and American minutemen.
(Introductory comments, instructions, and restroom breaks at this time. We will divide your group  into "townships" for small group activities.)

  
  The Shaw Family of Boston, in addition to living across the street from Paul Revere, had two British officers billeted in their home, Major John Pitcairne and Lt. Wragg. Wragg often had to be scolded by Pitcairn for deriding the Bostonians, and the guests and students learn, first hand, how colonists might have resented the domestic intrusions caused by the billeting of troops.  
 

Trade and Navigation Acts: guests and students witness period blacksmithing techniques, aided by a functioning, water-driven hammer mill. At the same time they learn how restrictive mercantilism could be:  hinges forged in Connecticut couldn't even be sold in neighboring New Hampshire!    They witness a Judge of Admiralty try their case without benefit of counsel or jury.  
 

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