The Colonial Recipe for a “FLIP”
Considering the fact that water was known to make people sick, the American colonies found safety in liquor. Colonial Boston was a peninsula slightly larger than one square mile in size. The town took ...
1768 – Liberty is Confiscated
Unlike Sam Adams, John Hancock had little interest in politics until June 1768, when his sloop Liberty was confiscated by British customs commissioners, for smuggling and non-payment of customs duties ...
Snug Harbor Tavern – The Beginning
The Snug Harbor Tavern series of novels began with a short, bony-necked candle-maker making his way to a Boston harbor tavern. Heretofore, he had steered clear at night because half the taverns also s ...
Sam Adams – The Beginning
In my opinion Sam Adams is arguably the reason the United States of America exists today. Unlike his cousin, John Adams, and many others, Sam Adams was not a nation builder. His gift to our creation w ...