so the planners may have been familiar leaders like samuel ann adams and john hancock, but they also may have been these more unfamiliar, ordinary artisans from boston. >> hi. i was just wondering, after a safe period the revolution settles and all, and did they have just coming out of the woodwork men claiming i was there, i was there, i was there? >> yeah. it actually becomes a big dispute. and nathaniel hawthorne weighs in on this and says wouldn't it be better if mystery of the boston tea party could just survive? and there were people who came out and started telling their stories, and then in the press, you know, some of the printers would attack them and say, oh, there's inconsistencies in this story, and it's probably not true, etc., etc. so there was a real resistance in the 1830s to having this story come out. and the reason for that is that i think americans weren't ready to embrace the tea party. it's not just this kind of -- they don't see it as this heroic action, they also see it as something that was dangerous and, you know, subversive and, you know, and pair sidal in