Thanks for that! I grew up on the New Hampshire seacoast. Portsmouth was in the early days a busier shipping port than Boston. Revolutionary War History was pounded into us as kids, many of the historic places being in easy sight. Much later I lived on "Thornton Street" not far from Whipple Road. Lots of history up there, everywhere you look and lots of old forts still standing from America's "first war". Here's one we sailed by every time we left Portsmouth Harbor to race.
http://www.forttours.com/pages/fortmcclary.asp I'm going to make my kids read the entire thing, seems they aren't "getting it" taught their local schools.
Oh, and then I'm going to hoist a few Sams, as a salute to "Samuel Adams" Brewer, Patriot.
;^)
