Voices of the past.
On the snowy evening of March 5, 1770, the mounting tensions between American colonists and occupying British troops reached a bloody crescendo, leaving five unarmed civilians dead. But behind the infamous imagery and patriot propaganda lie the people that lived through and witnessed the Boston Massacre. Hear a young apprentice taunting a sentry, and through spotlighted artifacts, images, and ghostly shadows, learn how this insignificant exchange between resident and soldier escalated into a deadly riot.
The presentation is motion-activated and begins when visitors enter the room and runs approximately 6 minutes.