I started at the Statehouse and decided since I had some time to kill before work I would check out some of the historic scenes...Today I saw the location where The Boston Massacre happened...It is located right behind the Old Statehouse...
It has no statue but only a marker on the street because it is a busy intersection and someone would probably hit it...
Then I decided I should see one of the monuments in the city remembering the five men who died on that day...
Above you can barely make out a representation of the propaganda print that Paul Revere made of the occasion...Below is the original image...
History states that this is a very inaccurate depiction of the events...for one thing Revere's crowd looks like they are peaceful...the real people were throwing oyster shells, rocks, and snowballs at the soldiers...and the soldiers look like they are shooting on command when what really happened is someone tripped his rifle went off and everyone started shooting...The commander, rather than lead the fight tried to break it off...but when he did it was already to late and resulted in the deaths of five people...Although inaccurate it was really good at promoting the desire to break from England.
This is the statue they came up with...what is interesting is that I think it does justice to the mood of the time very well...The woman has loosed one of her breasts and is now baring it in defiance...she clutches a chain in her hands and under her right foot is a broken crown...
No comments:
Post a Comment