a silversmith who practices dentistry on the side. >> paul revere was a working man.g the people most affected by some of the shutdowns of business that occurred as boston became a hotbed of dissent. >> yeah. that should do it, dr. warren. two new teeth and a proper smile to charm the ladies, huh? or, uh, perhaps the general's wife, right? [ both chuckle ] >> between two sons of liberty, the cost of a new tooth might be a tip from a spy. >> surely you will consider this adequate payment. >> boys, let's start cleaning up. we've got some work to do tonight. >> when parliament tries to force the colonists to pay taxes on british tea, tensions in boston reach a boiling point. and the sons of liberty lead a protest that will reverberate across the atlantic. >> to the harbor! [ all cheering ] >> the boston tea party may be the culmination of years of pent-up anger. but it's also a strategic act of nonviolence. the perpetrators dress up, conceal their identities. but another purpose is symbolic. by masquerading as mohawk indians, the patriots also send a message that they, l

the rest were secret service, so it was these people were called modern day paul reveres by the daily press that covered this event. so it was a major day for the church and alexandria. word did get out and the streets were lined with citizens as well as soldiers. after the service, the leaders went down to mt. vernon and churchill laid a wreath at the tomb of georgia ae and mrs. washington. that itself was an reconciliation from the revolutionary war but it was remarkable that, during the service, the rector welles asked the congregation to sing "the battle hymn of the republic" because of the need for unification during that, from that war. it was time for us all to come together, so they left mt. vernon in the rain, in the cold rain. they came back to washington. they stopped at the lincoln memorial, and went back to the white house where churchill was staying, and that evening, they were joined by the ambassadors of the soviet union and china to sign the first declaration of the united nations, and churchill was amazed that his friend, franklin roosevelt, had persuaded the soviet

paul revere punished one guy took tea for his personal use, he punished the tea partier who took tea for personal use, that was not celebrated. what was celebrated is the declaration of independce, the liberty bell which was rung to declare the first founding congress of our country. thomas payne's was the most famous of them. there are books of christian sermons defending the american revolution, it was a thought-out, logical revolution, a small step from the liberty we were used to, and it founded the most free and prosperous nation in the history of the world that other countries would do well to emulate, the french revolution, all of the founders ended up guillotined themselves. they didn't get anything resembling republic for 80 years. they are completely different, american and french revolution. john: the french revolution is like the democratic party. >> we worship or hate you. >> when i went to the occupy wall street protests, the progressive mob clearly thinks everyone is entitled to free stuff. >> i know you lie! >> we need obama to take care of us. john: government should

paul revere punished one guy took tea for his personal use, he punished the tea partier who took tea for personal use, that was not celebrated. what was celebrated is the declaration of independence, the liberty bell which was rung to declare the first founding congress of our country. thomas payne's was the most famous of them. there are books of christian sermons defending the american revolution, it was a thought-out, logical revolution, a small step from the liberty we were used to, and it founded the most free and prosperous nation in the history of the world that other countries would do well to emulate, the french revolution, all of the founders ended up guillotined themselves. they didn't get anything resembling republic for 80 years. they are completely different, american and french revolution. john: the french revolution is like the democratic party. >> we worship or hate you. >> when i went to the occupy wall street protests, the progressive mob clearly thinks everyone is entitled to free stuff. >> i know you lie! >> we need obama to take care of us. john: government shou

within the store we have history books here, paul revere, social generalist who his essays have been collected. these are the highlights of a very wide located interest in regional history collection we offer as well. so you coming to the main space of the store, this is our main stage area and the characters change over the time of day and day of the week so we might have a check club here on a wednesday morning or bookshelf is on saturday afternoon for our friday night, the tables and chairs will clear away and we will have a concert or a book talk. books in this area are our famous process selection, classic books of literature but also biographies and letters and nonfiction research that complements that famous offers that that section is over growing, we try to keep ourselves to a 100 but we had more shelves to that and we had to famous authors all the time so we have several other famous author sections within these areas and then these bookshelves or the mezzanine which has literary criticism and literature, lots of scholarly books but also a cool array of general interest tit

thing that went into it was a bell, which was ordered from the revere works in boston, that's paul revere's son, joseph, who was the one responsible for providing that bell to the church. it weighs almost 1,000 pounds. it was installed in the bell tower of november of 1822, and it's been in continuous use ever since. that bell probably is one of maybe 500 left in the entire country, many of whom were not church bells, but nonetheless, that's one of the pride and joys of this church, and it's difficult for anybody to see it on a tour because of the narrowness of the access route to the bell tower itself, but we have pictures of it, and it says on the bell, revere boston, 1822. one of the artifacts of st. john's which we're very proud of. i want to tell you something about the pews, because there's a connection between the pews and the presidency itself and from the time the church was built until the present, there's always been a pew set aside for the president of the united states whenever he might choose to attend a service at st. john's. in 1816 when the church was built, we had the box

paul revere. >> i move that mr. roach protest against the customs house and procure a pass of the governor that he on this day set sail with his vessel to london. >> no, i cannot. it is impractical, impossible. it is indeed out of the question. >> sir, you promised to take your ship dartmouth out of the harbor within 20 days of its arrival. tomorrow is the 20th day. will you, sir, give the order for your ship to set sail this day? >> no, i cannot! >> order! we have order on the floor. all in favor of the motion to send mr. roach one more time to governor hutchinson to get a pass to take his ship out of the harbor please signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed? motion carried. mr. roach, this body requests that you carry your protest to governor hutchinson and ask for a pass to take your vessel past the guns of the castle. >> i will make one final attempt to obtain a pass from our royal governor thomas hutchenson. i leave for milton immediately. >> i fear this may be our last hope to peacefully return the tea to en

and he rides through the night, midnight ride of his own, probably about a year after paul revere's, rides through thunderstorm, rides through lightning storms, he's got terrible asthma, he's got facial cancer at the time and makes really this heroic ride, and arrives at the pennsylvania state house which is what independence hall was called at the time, on the morning of july 2nd. still in his spurs and drenched in mud, to cast a vote in favor of independence from the state of delaware. >> first state? >> first state to adopt the constitution, but a needed state at the time. there were only nine states that voted in favor. delaware was split. rodney was going to break that split. south carolina was -- tended to be opposed at that time. pennsylvania tended to be opposed at the time. new york had not gotten the okay from its legislature to vote in favor. >> why was rhode island -- they didn't come to the constitutional convention, and they didn't sign it, and what's the problem through all this? >> i think their problem is a problem a lot of folks had, that originally, the federal con

being advocates for talking to everybody and towing them in ringing the drum we need to be like paul revere, ringing that bell that says it's coming to live get ready i just want to say thank you i look forward like three months like scott about this helps us, too. i appreciate. very well done. mdm. clerk next item >> >> item 12 a request authorizing the executive director to enter into a project partnership agreement with the united states army corps of engineers for dredging of the central basin providing access to united states army corps of engineers for that purpose and waiting applicable competitive bidding and contract requirements subject to approval of the board of supervisors. resolution number 16-48 >> good afternoon again commissioned special projects manager. i am here to discuss the agreement with army corps of engineers which will allow us to at long last move the central basin project forward. just for the broader audience really quickly the pier 70 shipyard is the longest continuous operating shipyard on the west coast. it employs 250 skilled jobs, 10 maritime labor unions.