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Recipe
for Revoluton: A New Flavor to an Old Story
The author of this little ditty is unknown. It
appeared in a
program for the Gaspee Days, June 7-8, 1978
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Ingredients:
- 1 schooner
H.M.S. Gaspee
- 1 packet Hannah
- 1 despicable
Lieutenant William Dudingston
- 1 clever Captain
Benjamin Lindsey
- A Stamp Act
- A sandbar
- About 64 angry
colonitsts, including John Brown and Abraham Whipple
- 8 longboats
- muskets, powder
horns,
and bullets
- 1 torch
- 1 extra straw
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Directions:
- On June 9,1772,
mix Gaspee, Dudingston and
Stamp Act
and float per order of King George III to Rhode Island in large bowl of
water. Agitate persistently.
- Combine Hannah and Lindsey. Pursue with
previous mixture, using plenty of delaying tactics and aggravation. Add
extra straw.
- Pass over
sandbar. The Gaspee mixture
should
stick to the bottom.
- Place Hannah combination aside in
Providence and spread word
- In a separate
container—a Sabin Tavern will suffice—mix angry colonists, Brown and
Whipple, muskets, bullets, and rum to taste. Inspire to action.
- A few hours
later,
place near Gaspee mixture
which should still be stuck on the sandbar. Put bullet in groin of
Dudingston, then remove Dudingston and crew and bring ashore.
- Ignite torch and
light
up Gaspee. Simmer slowly
until nothing remains.
- Keep colonists
anonymous for years.
- For a topping,
sift
letters from House of Burgesses in Virginia through 13 colonies and
form Committees of Correspondence. Gel for a year until it becomes the
First Continental Congress.
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Yield:
America's
'First Blow for Freedom' TM
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