Patriotic mobs and tea parties in the harbor returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protests that preceded American independence.
Commemorations of the Boston Tea Party include scheduled re-enactments of throwing tea leaves into the city’s harbor and community meetings that preceded the Dec. 16, 1773 protest — though this time, the symbolic protest was aided by spotlights and microphones.
City officials are expecting thousands of visitors for the celebration.
The crowd gathered to watch the reenactment immediately joined in, shouting “Huzzah!” with costumed actors as tea boxes are dumped in the harbor.
Later, they booed an actor who read King George III’s order to close the bay, and they cheered as the narrator detailed the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
Fireworks are lit aboard two boats, the “Beaver” (left) and the “Eleanore” during Saturday’s celebration. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An actor portrays Samuel Savagae during a reenactment of the “Meeting of the Body of People” inside the Old South Meeting House during the 250th Anniversary celebration of the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16. 2023. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An actor delivers a line as founding father John Hancock during Saturday’s celebration. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The tea for the reenactment was supplied by the East India Co., the same British company that was at the center of the great controversy.
During the historic event, protesting “taxation without representation,” members of the Sons of Liberty and others boarded an East India Co. ship. and dumped their precious cargo – about 92,000 pounds of tea worth nearly $2 million today – into the murky waters of Boston Harbor .
Great Britain responded with military rule and other restrictions on Massachusetts, sparking American resistance to colonial rule.
Visitors to the Boston Tea Party Museum throw a replica tea container into Boston Harbor from one of the replica boats on Dec. 11, 2017. Members of the AP Fife and Drum Corps play flutes as they march down the street to the waterfront on Saturday, Dec. 16. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Drummers walk down the street as part of a procession to the water to reenact the historic tea toss. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The Boston Tea Party is considered an important event that led to the American Revolutionary War.
“It is a reminder to all of us, not only in the United States but around the world, that democracy is in action: Doing what is right, no matter the odds, for our friends, our families, our homes, our future,” Datuk The city of Boston, Michelle Wu said at a press conference on Friday looking at the anniversary.
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