Trumpeters of Sedition: How the Printing Press Created a Revolution!

Name: Trumpeters of Sedition: How the Printing Press Created a Revolution!
Start: May 17, 2025
End: 2025-04-25
Location: The Museum of Printing, Haverhill MA

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On Saturday May 17, 2025 at 1 pm, Gary Gregory, proprietor of the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, will talk about the role of the printing press in the American Revolution. Printed pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers energized the revolution, and it was the printing press that produced the Declaration of Independence.

Gary will use his replica of an English Common Press, a wooden hand-press that now resides at the Museum of Printing, to demonstrate the technology in use at the time of the American Revolution.

Gary's exact replica of the Boston Declaration of Independence, using hand-set Caslon type

This printing demo is part of a series of 250th commemorations at the Museum of Printing, made possible with a grant from the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism and the Massachusetts 250th commission (MA250)

The Museum of Printing is at 15 Thornton Ave, Haverhill MA

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