BostonHerald.com: Tea Party Museum finally breaks ground
Twelve years in the making, the new Boston Tea Party Museum got started yesterday (Tuesday, April 19) with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
“We’ve had a lot of false starts and challenges over the last 12 years to get this project done,” said Shawn Ford, vice president of Historic Tours of America, which will operate the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. It is slated to open next spring on Fort Point Channel.
“The American Revolution was started, fought and won quicker than it did to build this Tea Party Museum,” quipped Ford before thanking the parties involved in moving the project forward.
The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum promises to host interactive exhibits, a tavern and tea room, costumed actors and replicas of the original ships from the Boston Tea Party — the Beaver, the Dartmouth and the Eleanor.
