Sam Forman's Blog, page 4
September 12, 2016
Joseph Warren Project (3rd of 4) – Crafted in America
Author: Robert Vartanian (Continued from here.) We talked to several sculptors to create a statue, and selected a sculptor from Utah. The criteria we had established was to first ensure the statue was made in America with American bronze. Although the original statue was created in France, we believed that since Bro. Warren was an […]
September 9, 2016
Joseph Warren Project (2nd of 4) – Where’s the City of Boston’s Monumental 1904 Statue?
Author: Robert Vartanian (Continued from here) The plan called for the statue to be replaced where it previously stood, however the footprint of the area had been substantially reduced during the construction, and no longer would accommodate the return of the statue. This statue was placed in a storage facility in Franklin Park until its […]
September 7, 2016
Joseph Warren Project (1st of 4) – Stature and Importance
Author: Robert Vartanian It was a cold rainy day in late April of 2015 when R.W. Stan Gaw took it upon himself to locate the grave of M.W. Joseph Warren. Bro. Gaw, being an analytical person, first inquired at the office of the Forest Hills Cemetery for help on his quest. The office provided him […]
September 6, 2016
The Suffolk Resolves in Draft
Author: Attributed on the basis of handwriting by the biographer John Cary to the Boston town clerk Date: September 6, 1774 “At a Convention of the Representative Comtees of the Several Towns & Districts of the County of Suffolk in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, on Tuesday the 6th day of Septemr […]
August 16, 2016
The Sight of Dr. Church Gave Us Great Joy
Date: June 2,1775 [John Adams, at Philadelphia, to Abigail Adams] My Dear I had Yesterday the Pleasure of two Letters from you, by Dr. Church. We had been so long without any Intelligence from our Country, that the Sight of the Dr. gave us great joy. I have received no Letters from England, untill the […]
July 19, 2016
His Commission is Made Out & I Shall Sign it Tomorrow
[John Hancock to Joseph Warren] “My Dear Sir, Sunday Morng. 18 June 1775. Philada. I intended writing you a long Letter, but am prevented, by my Attention to the orders of Congress in Dispatching an Express & writing to Govr Trumbull on matters of infinite Importance, in short from my Situation in Congress I have […]
July 12, 2016
Addressing Both Understanding and Passions – From the One he Forced Conviction from the Other He Stole Assent
Date: April 8, 1776 “ILLUSTRIOUS RELICKS! WHAT Tidings from the Grave! Why hast thou left the peaceful Mansions of the Tomb, to visit again this troubled Earth! Art thou the welcome Messenger of Peace! Art thou risen again to exhibit thy glorious Wounds, and thro’ them proclaim Salvation to thy Country! Or art thou come […]
July 6, 2016
May No Grief Your Little Hearts Oppress
AN ELEGY OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH of Major General JOSEPH WARREN, who fell fighting in Defense of the Glorious Cause of his Country, at Charlestown, in New England on the memorable 17th day of June, 1775 O! Every mournful Muse inspire my Verse, Fill my young Breast with more than mortal Fire, For Notes alone […]
June 29, 2016
Had Warren Been My Father I Could Not Have Mourn’d Him More
Watertown June 19th 1775 My dearest Friend I thank you for the line you sent me this morning it was a cordial indeed; I had a very anxious night of it, but I committed you to the care of a kind and good God, who has answered you: blessed be his name for this Instance […]
June 14, 2016
British at Bunker Hill – Ridiculous Parade of Triumph
by Joseph Palmer “In Comtee of Safety, Watertown 25th July 1775… “…the Commanders of the New England Army, had about the 14th ulto received advice, that Genl: Gage had issued orders for a Party of Troops under his command to take possession, very soon, of a place [ ] by the Name of post themselves […]
