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I just finished listening, thank you.
You know the sad thing is this. If this were taught in government schools they would make you memorize 1) How many barrels were taken 2) what was the date of the event, and the second event 3) what were the names of the British ships 4) which known founding fathers [if any] participated, 5) what towns are nearby, and other completely wooden and boring memorization facts that kids would hate.
This short work (and your reading amplifies, I think) highlights the adventure of it all. I don’t really like this other word because of its potential negative connotations, but it does highlight the intrigue of it all. The story and the action and the culture are all here. You get the relevance and the interesting stuff.
Your recording of Joseph Warren which I also recently just completed, does the same thing. Yes there are plenty of wooden stick facts there, but you get an idea of impact, the story, the situation.
The schools could kill Harry Potter if they taught Potter the way American history is taught. I think that’s really the gold in the gold mine with all of these old works and those yet to be recorded, is that the interesting story is properly framed instead of being systematically sabotaged.
It’s the culture. These people who founded our country were simply amazing.
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“the colonists said we are going to disarm you before you disarm us.” (my words)