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(Introductory comments, instructions, and restroom breaks at this time.
We will divide your group into "townships" for small group activities.)
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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.
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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. |
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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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