Taverns in the News, 1775: A Tale of Two Taverns

Join us for a presentation by Joseph M. Adelman, Ph.D expounding on the role of taverns in the Revolutionary Era.  There will be a 45-minute talk, followed by question time with libations served following the presentation.    

Tickets will be available for purchase on Friday, January 17th.  $40 per person and $35 per person for members of the Golden Ball Tavern Museum.  

This interesting and lively talk is presented by The Golden Ball Tavern Museum and the Friends of the Josiah Smith Tavern.  Get your tickets HERE!

“As gathering places for locals and travelers alike, taverns were key sites for information and debate.  As the imperial crisis peaked in the early months of 1775, wayside spots like the Golden Ball Tavern and the Josiah Smith Tavern found themselves as nodes for information, espionage, and passage for British soldiers and American patriots.  Tavern goers read the newspapers from Boston and beyond, shared the latest gossip on anti-imperial resistance and British policy making, and worried about what the future held.  In other words, the Revolution may not have begun in a tavern, but it had to stop there for food and drink.” - Joseph Adelman

Dr. Adelman is Professor of History at Framingham State University and an Associate Editor at The New England Quarterly. A historian of media, communication, and politics in early America, he is the author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789, published in 2019 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He is now working on a history of the Post Office in America.  In addition to academic publications, Adelman has written for Slate, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post.  Learn more at josephadelman.com

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