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Article: Rhodies say they got Tea Party started.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- June 29, 2003
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Byline: Tom Mashberg
WARWICK, R.I. - July 4 approaches and Massachusetts is awash in tourists basking in the Bay State's revolutionary heritage.
The Boston Massacre. The Boston Tea Party. Lexington and Concord. The Battle of Bunker Hill.
All unrivaled "blows for freedom" that set the stage for 1776, for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War.
Except here, where that view of history has really gotten "olde."
Because a good 18 months before the Boston Tea Party, along the shores of what is now Warwick, the true "first blow for freedom" was struck, locals here insist, and not by Bay Staters but by the doughty ...