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Friday, August 9, 2024 — 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Reception for 2024 Friends of History Camp

This year’s exclusive reception for the 2024 Friends of History Camp will be on the second floor of The Bell in Hand, America’s oldest tavern, just steps from Faneuil Hall. It will include evening hors d’oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages. (Cash bar also available.)

Become a 2024 Friend of History Camp to receive an invitation to this year’s reception! The annual Friends of History Camp Reception is exclusively for individuals who have made an additional donation at the Friends level.

In addition, you will receive this year’s limited edition pin featuring the Old Powder House, the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts. (See below for why we chose the Old Powder House for our 2024 pin.)

And your name will appear on our 2024 Friends of History Camp sign at the event and in the session guide, as well as on the Friends page.

The event 250 years ago that involved the Old Powder House

The Powder Alarm was a major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a magazine near Boston by British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on September 1, 1774. In response to this action, amid rumors that blood had been shed, alarm spread through the countryside to Connecticut and beyond, and American Patriots sprang into action, fearing that war was at hand. Thousands of militiamen began streaming toward Boston and Cambridge, and mob action forced Loyalists and some government officials to flee to the protection of the British Army.

History Camp Boston 2024 is a project of the non-profit organization The Pursuit of History.