History repeats itself

By William R. Toler

On April 15, a grassroots effort to protest taxation and government spending will be taking place in the form of tea parties all across America.

So far there are 15 Tax Day Tea Parties scheduled in North Carolina. One of those will be historically significant, because it happened 235 years ago.

In 1774, more than fifty women in the colonial capital Edenton signed a pledge to not use East India Tea to show their support for the Bostonians agaisnt British taxation. That event became known in state history as the Edenton Tea Party.

I plan to attend the one in Edenton, rather than the closer one in Morehead City, to document the act of history repeating itself.