July 4, 2024 - The Boston Tea Party, AJ Jacobs, and LexSeeHer

Coming up on The Culture Show….We are steeped in American history, starting with  the Boston Tea Party. Fed up with the tyranny of taxation without representation, American colonists  took matters into their own hands–literally: tossing three shiploads of tea into Boston Harbor. The theatrics alone  made it one of  THE most celebrated rebellions. But to understand the true ideals and motivations behind it, we turn to the Massachusetts Historical Society.And in his latest book,  writer AJ Jacobs documents  living  as closely to the original meaning of the Constitution  as possible, which includes carrying a musket,  and personally delivering a list of grievances to Congress. Although his constitutional immersion is humorous, Jacobs is not in this just for the laughs. He  finds a nation losing its hold on the values implicit in the constitution: responsibility, community  and civic engagement.  Finally, sisters are doing it for themselves.  As America prepares to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, Lexington, Massachusetts is telling a story about the women who were a part of this history but were forgotten or erased and never celebrated.  Hence, the monument “Something is Being Done.” Jared Bowen talks to Meredith Bergmann, the acclaimed Massachusetts sculptor who created this monument and  Jessie Steigerwald, president of LexSeeHer, Inc.