now lucy met this gentleman henry knox. this is an early picture and henry was very tall and handsome, unusually tall for that era. six-foot 3 inches they say. he died and left henry an orphan at the age of 12. he dropped out of boston latin school. he was an apprentice to a printer and it becomes of course a printer on his own and he opens what is called the new london bookstore which became a very fashionable salon imported books from great britain, the britain at that time and all the young men and women would congregate including john adams. now lucy was 16 and she happened to see henry on a course parading with the militia not too far from their parents townhouse at and she fell madly in love with him. this did not go over well with her parents obviously. they being tories and henry not only being poor and middle-class but a radical patriot. so they told her if you marry him, you will always be poor and lucy didn't care. think about lucy. lucy is a bit of a combination of rosie o'donnell, oprah and margaret thatcher al

dorchester heights which involves one of the great stories of new england history with a bookseller, henry knox, going to fort ticonderoga and returning with the, with the cannons that would be, some of which would be placed on this dorchester heights and force the evacuation of the british. and as boston went from being a city that had been occupied to being a city that had to pull itself together. and, you know, this had been a devastating experience for everyone. and 9,000 soldiers left along with about a thousand loyalists never to return. and bostonians would filter back. and the town had been beat up terribly. many structures had been burned as the british tried to heat themselves in the winter. but bostonians by and large had survived. and i'd like to end my remarks by quoting a passage from a sermon that was delivered by reverend samuel cooper on april 7, 1776. his first after the evacuation of the british. and much as we've seen boston in the last few weeks, his had been a community that had seen the worst of times, but they had made it through. and and so he delivered the sermon, and