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Identifier: walkstalksabout00mann (find matches)
Title: Walks & talks about historic Boston .
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Mann, Albert William, 1841-
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Massachusetts Boston Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Mann publishing co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rontispiece representing some men in fulldress and powdered wigs, who were seated about a tablesinging. The advertisement addressed to the subscribers forthis book is both quaint and interesting. In 1765 he joined the Sons of Liberty, being one of thefirst members of that famous order, and this may be said tobe the beginning of his long patriotic career. This organizationintimidated the Stamp Act distributors and successfully op-posed that act. Revere was also an active member of theLong Room Club, which met in the building on the cornerof Court Street and Franklin Avenue, where the elegant bank-ing building of the Old Colony Trust Company now stands.He was also a member of the North End Caucus, whichheld its meetings in the Green Dragon Tavern, near the cor-ner of Hanover and LTnion Streets. When the Stamp Actwas vexing the spirits of the good people of Boston, Revererepresented it in an allegorical print, which immediately be-came very popular. He described it as follows: The odious
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Paul Revere Walks and Talks .Ihoiil Historic Boston. :vj Slanip Act rcprcsmtrd 1)\ the I)ras4<)n. (.■()ntr( )iUe(l 1)\ lluslonwith drawn sword. The Colonies, Xcw York and Rhode Is-land, snjipDrt I lani))(k-n, Xew Hampshire and Xirginia withthe other Lniied Colonies are also represented, wdiile fromthe ■Lil)erty Tree hangs the Officer of the Crown. Ac-companying the i)icture are eleven lines of heroic measureof those days, which were written hy Revere, showing him apoet as well as an artist. The most famous of all his engravings was the one repre-

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