Friday, January 09, 2015

After 220 years, secrets of Paul Revere and Sam Adams time capsule revealed

Alan Yuhas, The Guardian
06 Jan 2015 at 23:19 ET                  
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A small greenish box, disinterred from underneath Boston's State House and containing 220-year-old relics from the United States' earliest years, held a crowd breathless on Tuesday night as a museum conservator delicately lifted its lid to see what lay inside.
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Revolutionary war heroes Sam Adams and Paul Revere - patriots in American textbooks and Boston lore - laid the capsule within the cornerstone of the State House in 1795 to commemorate the building, the city, and the imminent 20th anniversary of American independence. In December, workers fixing a water leak at the building discovered the box along with five embedded coins, a good luck custom.
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Two of the three men who placed the box entered American mythology: Adams, the Massachusetts governor famous for helping instigate the Boston tea party and the break with Britain, and Revere, the artisan propagandist whose name has become synonymous with his night ride before the war. The third man was Williams Scollay, a war hero and deputy to Revere's grand master in the local Masonic lodge.
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