An insider's tour of Durgin Park ... Real food for real people!
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American Made Heroes
looks forward to seeing you all here!
Join in a full Satruday of fun with a reception & dinner at famous Durgin Park in Quincy Market!
Serving Boston since 1871.
Welcome to our St. Patrick's Day reception & dinner at Boston's famous Durgin Park in the heart of historic Quincy Marketplace.
Opened in 1827 in Faneuil Hall Market, Durgin Park still has long, communal tables, tile floors, waitresses known for their sass, and true New England
food, from a singular clam chowder to Yankee pot roast with cornbread, from baked scrod and fried Ipswich clams to molasses-rich Indian pudding and
chocolate-topped Boston cream pudding. Good New England beer selection, too. (Come in the back door to avoid the crush of tourists coming in the front.
We reserved the entire 3rd floor dining hall, pictured above, for our special "
American Made Heroes
" invited guests & dignitaries.
Enjoy a stroll along America's most historic & famous
"Freedom Trail" ending at Quincy Market to then browse the many interesting shops clustered there ... and finally meeting right there at Durgin Park to sit
& rest and enjoy a great meal with new friends!
Come celebrate as proud
American Made Heroes
in our parade!
St. Patrick's Parade
Boston 2012!
We thank The Boston Beer Company for their involvement in USA's "Gathering of Heroes"!
Jim Koch, Founder
Click photo for "Hero" profile.
We applaud The Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch for through his vision and entrepreneurial spirit there are now 750 fellow Americans who are gainfully
employed and, as is reviewed on his "Hero" profile page, Mr. Koch continues to encourage a new generation of USA job creators through his "Brewing the
American Dream" organization.
We loudly applaud Jim Koch and welcome
him as an
American Made Hero.
Celebrate Evacuation Day with George Washington & with a Sam Adams!
Samuel Adams was born to a wealthy and powerful family in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, (also named Samuel Adams), was an important landowner in the Boston area, and his second cousin John Adams would one day become the first vice president and second president of the United States.
Unfortunately for old Samuel Adams, he would lose much of his wealth in a risky investment in paper currency, a form of currency outlawed in 1744 by the British government. Samuel Adams the younger had just earned his Master's Degree from Harvard College the previous year.
The pair decided to go into business together opening up a brewery. When the elder Adams died in 1748, control of the brewery went entirely to Samuel Adams. He ran the brewery singly for over 20 years, but it failed in 1764. The brewery had never been particularly profitable, but he held on until finally he had to shut it down. His largely unsuccessful stint as a brewer would not go unremembered, however, and in 1985 would serve as the name of the highly popular Samuel Adams beer company
Samuel Adams ... a brewer ... a patriot
... an
American Made Hero!
In his over 50 years of public life Samuel Adams worked as a failed brewer, tax collector, Massachusetts legislator and vital
rabble rouser for the cause of patriotism and freedom. Although forever linked with the brewery trade as the name of the popular beer brand, it is as a patriot that Sam Adams’
true legacy remains. One cannot even imagine what would have happened in those turbulent years of the colonial period without his violent passion for liberty and
his explosive talent at oratory.
"Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear
to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufacturers. Every nation ... ought to endeavor to possess within
itself all the essentials of a national supply. They comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and
defense ... The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very
questionable, appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted."
-- Alexander Hamilton ... an
American Made Hero!
E-mail a request for details & I will update you via e-mail.
Mike@AmericanMadeHeroes.com
Event dates & activity schedule to be announced.
Thomas Jefferson
“I have come to the resolution myself, as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.”
-- Thomas Jefferson ... an
American Made Hero!
E-mail a request for details & I will update you via e-mail.
Mike@AmericanMadeHeroes.com
Event dates & activity schedule to be announced.
George Washington
“There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate real favors from nations.” (China??)
-- George Washington ... an
American Made Hero!
Visit Boston now and help our begining the battle for economic independence once again ! Know your history!
St. Patrick's is also Evacuation Day & George Washington's 1st victory!
Siege of Boston 1776
March 17 is Evacuation Day! The holiday commemorates the evacuation of British forces from the city of Boston following the Siege of Boston, early in the
American Revolutionary War. It is the same day as Saint Patrick's Day, a coincidence that played a role in the establishment of the holiday.
The colonial victory occured in the area of South Boston known as Dorchester Heights which commands a view of both Boston Harbor and downtown.
Dorchester Heights was and is remembered in American history for an action in the American Revolutionary War known as the Fortification of Dorchester
Heights. After the battles of Lexington and Concord, Revolutionary sentiment within New England reached a new high, and thousands of militiamen from the
Northern colonies converged on Boston, pushing the British back within what where then relatively narrow city limits. In June 1775 British soldiers under
General William Howe attacked and seized Bunker Hill, but in the process sustained many losses. Following this encounter, the Continental Congress in
Philadelphia gave George Washington the title of commander-in-chief and sent him to oversee the Siege of Boston.
The stalemate in Boston lasted for months, only breaking when Colonel Henry Knox returned from Fort Ticonderoga in New York, having led a team of sleds
loaded with tens of thousands of pounds of artillery (cannon) in winter from the fort across hundreds of miles to Boston. This added artillery gave
Washington the firepower needed to make a decisive move. On the night of March 4, 1776, as 800 American soldiers stood guard along the river of Dorchester
shores, 1,200 American soldiers occupied Dorchester Heights. They began working through the night to build structures suitable to defend against the
British Army. A large portion of the artillery, pulled by oxen, was moved and installed, without being noticed by the British, at Dorchester Heights, a
point of strategic importance due to its elevation and commanding view of all of Boston and Boston Harbor.
In response, Howe planned a counteroffensive to take the fortified positions on the Heights, but bad weather forced him to reconsider.
The Royal Navy
evacuated the British Army from Boston on March 17, 1776, along with many Loyalists.
Come and join us at our "Gathering of Heroes" .... become the "bad weather" that saves today's America ...
American Made Heroes!
