Today we went to the Boston Tea Party Museum. There were five sections to the museum. The first was an interactive “town meeting.” We all got identity cards and played a role in the meeting that was to recreate the events that took place before the people of Boston decided to throw the shipments of tea into the harbor. I was chosen to have a speaking part as a man named Thomas Porter. He was well known for speaking aloud and was a carpenter that disliked the Stamp Act. After having the skit interacted by the tour guides, we moved to the second section where we were assisted by actors depicting Phyllis Wheatley and John Hancock as they guided us through the boat named Beaver, at Griffith Harbor. The actors at the Tea Party museum talked us through the act of spoiling the tea shipment and let us throw replicas of the tea boxes overboard and into the water. We then went below deck and met with the mannequin captain before exiting the boat and entering the third section, where we listened to two holographic women from the time period with two different sides/ideas about the Revolution. One supported King George III and one hated him. The room was really cool, it was dark and represented a harbor at night. After that presentation, the fourth section was where we learned about how one of the tea boxes that went into the harbor was saved centuries later. The tea box was found on a beach and taken in by a family. Throughout the generations, the box was repainted with flowers on its side and another side was made into a board game. After that happened two of the paintings on the wall, King George III and Sam Adams, started talking and they argued for a minute or two about the reason for revolting against (or not) Great Britain. Lastly we moved to the final section of the museum where we watched a movie about Paul Revere's midnight run and how the battle of Lexington and Concord started. The movie was really loud as it tried to depict the sound of war in the colonies. The whole experience was really unique and I only wished the Abigail Tea House was still open after our visit.
Lennon Smith
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