Koch has also asked the Boston Public Library to transfer John Adams’ collection of more than 3,000 books to the city to serve as a focal point of the project.

Foxborough resident Michael LePage, who has been moonlighting as figures from America’s distant past for more than 30 years, is just one of the local reenactors staying busy during tourism season.

The statue, paid for with about $350,000 in city money, according to Koch, was sculpted by Sergey Eylanbekov. Read more at Boston.com.

The Boston Tea Party In 1773 Samuel Adams, John's cousin and a revolutionary leader, got his hands on letters written by Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson.

John Adams, the nation’s first vice president, called it “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.” In 1796, with George Washington’s endorsement, Adams ...

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