
Today was Day Two of the 100th anniversary commemoration of the Greenwich Tea Burning Monument which was unveiled in 1908 to commemorate the 1774 act of revolutionary resistance commonly known as the “Greenwich Tea Burning.” (Try saying that ten times fast!). Most of the festivities today took place along “Ye Greate Street,” the road running through the center of Greenwich. This 100 foot wide road was laid out in the 1670s by John Fenwick, the founder of “Salem,” the first English colony in the Delaware Valley (founded five years before William Penn founded Pennsylvania).





As some of my readers know, I am working on a book on the Greenwich Tea Burning tentatively titled, “The Greenwich Tea Burning: History and Memory in a New Jersey Town.” As a result, this weekend I think I was more anthropologist than historian. The 2008 Tea Burning Monument Anniversary Celebration will make a great epilogue.
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