![]() ![]() Would we agree with Shakespeare that nothing compares to the tedium of “a twice-told tale / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man”? Hawthorne obviously didn’t. The story of the American Revolution has been rehearsed again and again. Beeman are not writing fiction, but like Hawthorne, they winningly deliver twice-told tales about the founding events of the United States. They haunt Boston in one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Twice-Told Tales” (1837). The Province House was torn down in 1922. Unable to accept that the British lost the American War for Independence, they are forever doomed to commemorate a moment when it might have gone the other way. The participants are the ghosts of colonial Massachusetts governors. Each year, on the anniversary of George Washington’s successful siege of British-occupied Boston, a procession glides through the Province House, the old governor’s mansion. ![]()
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