Ferry passengers could soon be sipping a cocktail while waiting for their ride to Boston.

One of the things I love the most about writing is that it gives me an
excuse to do lots of research on all sorts of things. I sometimes
worry that if the FBI ever monitored my Google history I'd be in big
trouble. As I am working on The Crazy Old Lady Unleashed,
Volume 3 in my Beacon Hills Chronicles series, I am delving
deeper and deeper into ghost stories and hauntings. It's quite
fascinating. Yesterday, while doing some research on Boston Harbor

The USS Cassin Young Destroyer did a turnaround yesterday in Boston Harbor.  The ship is maintained by the National Park Service in a dock next to the USS Constitution as an example of the type of ship built, repaired and modernized at the Charlestown Navy Yard. Brendan O’Brien captures the action in the photo below.

The iconic story of the Boston Tea Party assumes the colonists who dumped tea into Boston Harbor were enraged victims of burdensome taxes.

That's partly true: The perpetrators — less than 100 in number — were upset about taxation. The taxes levied on them by Great Britain, however, were a pittance compared to those paid by other British subjects. Tea was actually offered to the Massachusetts colony at a reduced price (two shillings per pound) with a relatively minuscule tax (three pence per pound).