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Today is the 250th anniversary of the Princeton Tea Burning. [View all]
Princeton students gathered tea from neighbors and set it on fire in response to King George setting a tax on tea imported on Dutch ships. Brit. East India tea was exempt because that company was near bankruptcy and its owners knew people in high places.
NJDEP held a bonfire where tea was thrown onto the fire and burned, along with an effigy of Massachusetts colony Governor Hutchinson. A brief lesson described the background. Then pro and anti King George actors read speeches in support or against the King's policies.
It was interesting that the Pro-King (loyalist) point of view was presented.
It will be interesting to see if the N.J. Stamp Act riot in southern N.J. will be celebrated.
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