Concord Gift Box: Revolutionary War Era themed
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Time travel through the anroma and taste of tea and hot chocolate, the scent of old fashioned all natural beeswax, and a postcard and literary tea towel to commemorate it all.

This box comes with a printout of the below history related to its contents.
 
Contains::
 
Oliver Pluff & Co. Bohea Tea packet and Melville Candy Company Hot Chocolate Spoon
On 16 December 1773, Patriots dumped 342 chests of East India Company Tea into Boston Harbor in “The Boston Tea Party”. Two-thirds of the tea was Bohea, the same tea made by Oliver Pluff and Co., that is included in this gift box. A month later, in January 1774, the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, met to discuss Parliament’s continued taxing of tea in America. The town resolved that they would not “buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, imported from Great Britain” and they would regard anyone who did as “enemies to their country” and treat them “with contempt and detestation.” [source: Shattuck, History of Concord] 
 
Colonists turned to other drinks including hot chocolate which was enjoyed by people like Massachusetts-born John Adams, and his friend Thomas Jefferson. Years later, in 1785, Jefferson wrote to Adams, “The superiority of [hot] chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain..."
 
The hot chocolate spoon in this box was made by the Massachusetts based Melville Candy Company whose namesakes’ Scottish ancestors are distant cousins of American writer Herman Melville author of Moby Dick: or, The Whale, and friend of Concord writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.
 
Minuteman Farmer Tea Towel and Postcard
The Minute Man Farmer Statue was made by Concord sculptor Daniel Chester French in honor of the Patriots who engaged in the April 19, 1775, battle at Concord’s North Bridge. It was unveiled in 1875 upon the centennial of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. A stanza from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem, “The Concord Hymn”, was engraved on the stone below the statue. French’s iconic statue and Emerson’s famed words are represented on the tea towel in this box. 
 
 
Beeswax Candle
In the Colonial era, beeswax was considered a luxury. May this pure beeswax votive fill your room with the sweet and luxurious scent of honey.