John Hanzl followed the progress of a tea bale that apparently escaped from the Tea Party Museum and managed to avoid the Gillette water-intake pump as it slowly floated down, down, down Fort Point Channel, all the way down to the little curvy bit that ends in South Boston.
A concerned citizen of the realm complains:
Tea chest from Tea Party Museum washed up between Gillette and railroad tracks.
Video of the Tea Party Museum's Beaver on its entry into Fort Point Channel this morning, with the Northern Avenue bridge swung open to let it through.
Via DotRat, who also has a clip of the ship further out in the harbor.
Good Morning Gloucester has photos of the Beaver, the first of three ships meant for the Tea Party Museum, leaving Gloucester on its way to Fort Point Channel.
It's scheduled to arrive in the channel tomorrow morning, on the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Good Morning Gloucester posts some photos of the ships, being built in Gloucester.
The Boston Licensing Board today found "no violation" in the actions of Ups N Downs on Feb. 23, when somebody stabbed seven people, but the bar remains closed and still plans to shut down forever.
The bar argued the incident, in which exchanged words escalated into a brawl and then somebody whipped out a knife, was unforeseeable. A bar security person testified Tuesday none of the fighters were regulars at the Neponset Circle bar.
Greg MacKay photographed the Congress Street Bridge and the nearing-completion Tea Party Museum.
First it was the movie about Lexington and Concord filmed in Virginia. Now, the Herald reports (in its latest negative story about the project), the museum chose a Georgia sculptor to create some sculptures. Naturally, the Herald finds local sculptors who think that's a dumb thing to do and leaves a positive comment about the move to the very bottom of the story.
Every day, it looks more likely that this time, the Tea Party Museum will actually reopen. On Tuesday, some roofers were busy up on, well, the roof.
A movie company hired by the Tea Party Museum will film a re-creation of the Battle of Lexington on a field just west of Richmond, Va.
The Herald summons ye olde outrage over the moviemaking, set for next month. As the Herald notes, the Tea Party Museum is getting $21 million in Massachusetts tax subsidies.
On its site, LionHeart FilmWorks claims:
The Herald follows up today on the Globe's fluff piece yesterday about the rebuilt Tea Party Museum with a front-pager:
A planned new Boston Tea Party Museum - dedicated to the history of America’s first tax revolt - is receiving millions of dollars in city and state aid while the private project's price tag has tripled in just five years, a Herald review shows.
The Globe reports.
Hopefully some of that money will go to fireproofing, since the ship burned down in 1991, and what was left of the old museum building burned in 2007.
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