ADVISORY/Loyalist Day at Fort Independence, Castle Island - South Boston; Introducing Boston's Tory Trail; Free Admission.

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ADVISORY...for Saturday (June 19)

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Loyalist Day at Fort Independence, Castle Island

Who:    Presented by: The Colonial Loyalist Alliance of Massachusetts,
        a consortium of National Historic Landmark house museums:
        Count Rumford House, Golden Ball Tavern, Hooper-Lee-Nichols
        House, Isaac Royall House, Loring-Greenough House,
        Shirley-Eustis House and Isaac Winslow House.

        Hosted by: Castle Island Association and Massachusetts
        Department of Conservation and Recreation.

What:   Re-enactors from His Majesty's British Garrison, 10th, 5th,
        4th and 1st Regiments along with Dr. Isaac Winslow's field
        hospital and a visit from Governor Hutchinson portraying
        Colonial life and the Siege of Boston. Other activities
        include bagpipers, afternoon tea in Bastion A of the Fort,
        house museum displays and children's activities. Loyalist book
        and genealogy information tables provided along with free Tory
        Trail maps and Colonial Tea Tax Stamp replicas.

Where:  South Boston, Exit 15 from I-93 to end of peninsula at 1887
        Day Boulevard. For more information www.torytrail.org,
        [e-mail] or 508.420.5443

When:   Saturday, June 19, 2004 - Rain or Shine - from 10a.m. to 3p.m.

Why:    The Tory Trail tour guide map was developed by the Colonial
        Loyalist Alliance of Massachusetts in response to numerous
        requests over the years from Boston area schools, Colonial
        history buffs, travel agents and English and Canadian tourists
        for more information about the "other side" of the Freedom
        Trail story.