Show threadJohn Overholt21h ago
Paul Revere reenactor stops by Paul Revere Liquor Mart in Somerville, 1977.
#Revolution250
Show threadJohn Overholt21h ago
BPL’s exhibition features a lot of different versions of the Declaration with a little graphic about how rare—or unique—they are. #Revolution250
Show threadJohn Overholt22h ago
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. #Revolution250
Show threadJohn Overholt22h ago
The MHS installation of what I think of as Boston’s “other” Dunlap broadside really brings the drama. (Not pictured, a recording of the text being read aloud.) #Revolution250
Show threadJohn Overholt23h ago
Abigail admonishes John to “remember the ladies.” #Revolution250
Show threadJohn Overholt23h ago
Whereas the Athenaeum has the Washington Library, Mass Historical has the Adams Papers, including his copy of the Treaty of Paris ending the war. #Revolution250
Show threadJohn Overholt1d ago
Both “Easy Plan of Didcipline for a Militia” and “Common Sense” will be in my exhibition, but they won’t be *George Washington’s copies*. Incredible curatorial flex. #Revolution250
Show threadJohn Overholt1d ago
Hard to imagine a more maximally Bostonian place for a #Revolution250 exhibition than the Athenaeum’s sitting room overlooking the Granary Burying Ground.
John Overholt1d ago
Busman’s holiday for me today, going out to visit the #Revolution250 exhibitions at the Boston Athenaeum, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Boston Public Library, all of which you can learn more about on the Declarations Trail website. https://declarationstrail.org
Declarations Trail

Explore America’s founding document in a whole new way. At four sites in and around Boston, see a dozen rare copies of the Declaration of Independence—different printings, created for different audiences—brought together on public view in multiple exhibition settings.

DecaturNature2d ago

John Adam said: “It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.

But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”

#history #revolution250 #usa