[smokingfrog]

More here.

http://www.rayraphael.com/First_American_Revolution.htm

[smokingfrog]

http://www.rayraphael.com/First_American_Revolution.htm

[fightinJAG]

Thanks for posting this!

[Candor7]

Plenty of Scottish Americans around Worcester. I bet they were in the middle of it.

[Bosco]

Folks, read this Ray Raphael's bio:

Raphael's bio

Highlights:

Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Masters in Political Philosophy from Cal Berkeley

"Ray Raphael, born in 1943 and raised in New York City, headed west the day after graduating Fieldston high school. During the 1960s he was active in the civil rights movement, spending two summers in the South and working on community organization in the North. In the 1970s he homesteaded in the hills of Northwest California, where he and his wife Marie raised their two sons, Nick and Neil. He taught a comprehensive one-room high school in his remote home as well as evening courses at the local community college, and he began writing about local history and contemporary issues. "

He's a Commie. Caveat emptor.

[Windflier]

When British troops failed to show, 4,722 militiamen from 37 towns in Worcester County lined both sides of Main Street and forced every official and every prominent Tory in town to resign or recant thirty times over, hats in hand, as they made their way through the gauntlet from Heywood¹s Tavern (at Exchange Street) to the County Court House.

This scene could easily be repeated today in Washington DC (albeit with millions more patriots), should the people be sparked to do so. The result would also be the same. The government would concede and stand down on that very day.

[rabidralph]

My only question is, how did the N.E. get so screwed up when they were the ones fighting for our freedom from the beginning?

[shield]

bfl

[13Sisters76]

Well...I lived in Worcester for many years and never guessed that “Wormtown” had such a great past. It’s hard to imagine, given what the city is NOW...

[KarenMarie]

mrkd