Endurance trapped This is one of Dr. Macklin's wonderful and insightful comments that point to Shackleton's leadership strategies of leading by example and maintaining a positive attitude. In the years following the Endurance expedition, some crew members refused to talk about their experience. In some cases, they couldn't share what they had been through because they saw it as sacred. In one case, the crew member thought it would be bragging to talk about it. In the 1950s,

1860 Aerial View of Boston I came across this 1860 image when I was working on the Sam Adams project. In the lower left corner, you can pick out Old South Meeting House with the steeple and follow the path of the Tea Party patriots along Milk Street, which runs along side the Meeting House, to what was once Griffins wharf where they jumped into rowboats to get out to the three ships, anchored at sea, that were loaded with crates of tea.

On December 17, 1775 - From Fort George, New York, north of Saratoga, Henry Knox wrote to General Washington, " I have made forty two exceeding strong sleds & have provided eighty yoke of Oxen to drag them as far as Springfield where I shall get fresh Cattle to carry them to Camp. The rout will be from here to Kinderhook, from thence into Great Barrington, Massachusetts Bay & down to Springfield—There will Scarcely be any possibility of conveying them from here to Albany or

On this day in 1773, patriots in Boston, led by Sam Adams, were organizing the Boston Tea Party. An estimated crowd of 7,000 pressed into Old South Meeting House (the pews are a later addition) and jammed the surrounding streets. The heart of the issue was "no taxation without representation." The provocation was the arrival of the Dartmouth on November 28, the first of three British ships to arrive loaded with crates of tea that would be subject to tax. Custom officials had