July 1774 wasn’t so unlike July 2024 in Tappahannock, Virginia. It was hot. Politics were tense. And locals gathered to hear “The Essex Resolutions,” considered one of the best written responses to the King’s actions, and laying the groundwork for the rebellion that followed. What impact did the resolutions have, and how is it related to the more famous Boston Tea Party? Cardinal News 250 host Dutchie Jessee speaks with Essex County Museum Executive Director Tim Manley about the history, and the Hamilton-esque reenactment of it, in this episode.
See also Lindley Estes’ story on the Essex County event.
Other Cardinal 250 podcasts:
- Podcast with descendents of Black Virginians who moved to freedom in Nova Scotia after the war (and the Canadian museum dedicated to them).
- Podcast with award-winning historian Woody Holton about “the forgotten founders.”
- Retired Virginia Commonwealth University journalism professor Jeff South about the role of the press in Colonial Virginia.
- South also talks about Clementina Rind, the first woman to publish a newspaper in Virginia.
- Cheryl Wilson, executive director of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.
