"The Boston Massacre, 1770" by Randell Jones
Becoming America
Exactly 250 years ago this year occurred one of the most famous and least understood events in American history. And, just before it, a murder hardly anyone remembers. On the 250th anniversary of the funeral procession which helped galvanize patriotic spirits in Boston, hear one important story of our becoming America.
BecomingAmerica250.com is a new project to help people touch history where it happened during the 250th anniversary of a Southern colonial odyssey, 1769 to 1789 as we were becoming America.
Randell Jones is the award-winning author of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone and Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain. He has received two Kentucky History Awards from the Kentucky Historical Society and the national History Award medal from the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution for his body of work. He is the editor and publisher of the Personal Story Publishing Project and producer of the “6-minute Stories” podcast. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.