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Taverns in the News, 1775: A Tale of Two Taverns

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Taverns in the News, 1775: A Tale of Two Taverns

When

March 6, 2025    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Where

Josiah Smith Tavern, The Ballroom
358 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA, 02493

Event Type

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MARCH 6, 2025

7PM

Taverns in the News, 1775: A Tale of Two Taverns

Presentation by Joseph M. Adelman, Ph.D

Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 6th in the Josiah Smith Tavern Ballroom, 358 Boston Post Rd., Weston, MA for a presentation by Joseph M. Adelman, Ph.D. expounding on the role of taverns in the Revolutionary Era. There will be a 45-minute talk, followed by question time with libations served following the presentation.

This talk is presented by The Golden Ball Tavern Museum and the Friends of the Josiah Smith Tavern.

Ticket are $40 per person and $35 for members of the Golden Ball Tavern Museum. Ticket price includes refreshments to follow the talk in the JST taproom. Seating is limited! Purchase tickets HERE.

 

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“As gathering places for locals and travelers alike, taverns were key sites for information and debate.  As the imperial crisis peaked in the early months of 1775, wayside spots like the Golden Ball Tavern and the Josiah Smith Tavern found themselves as nodes for information, espionage, and passage for British soldiers and American patriots.  Taverngoers  read the newspapers from Boston and beyond, shared the latest gossip on anti-imperial resistance and British policy making, and worried about what the future held.  In other words, the Revolution may not have begun in a tavern, but it had to stop there for food and drink.”

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Dr. Adelman is Professor of History at Framingham State University and an Associate Editor at The New England Quarterly. A historian of media, communication, and politics in early America, he is the author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789, published in 2019 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He is now working on a history of the Post Office in America.  In addition to academic publications, Adelman has written for Slate, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post.

 

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