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June 11. Thomas Jefferson elected to committee to produce a Declaration of Independence, and soon starts writing a draft...
...being a very hot day, we were served along the platform with grog in fire-buckets, which we partook of very heartily. I never had a more agreeable draft." With these surprising words, Colonel William Moultrie, 45, commander of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, was recounting not an assault upon some savanna-side grogshop but a striking colonial victory off Charles Town, South Carolina. In a bitter ten-hour action, Moultrie and 435 men inflicted heavy losses upon a strong British naval squadron under the command of Commodore Sir Peter Parker (two ships of the line, six frigates, the bomb...
...being able to take part in such debates, Virginia's Jefferson sat down in Philadelphia and wrote his own outline for a constitution, sending it back to Williamsburg with his mentor, Lawyer George Wythe. By the time Wythe got there, however, the many arguments over Mason's draft had finally been settled. Chairman Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished lawyer, said that the members "could not, from mere lassitude, have been induced to open the instrument again." But they did like Jefferson's preamble, which contains many of the same ideas that Jefferson has included in his Declaration...
...well taken care of in the immediate vicinity, and as you go further out, the variety increases. Some people's favorites are the consciously unpretentious bars--though that doesn't necessarily mean they're cheap. First, there's the aforementioned Cronin's, with large 70 cent light draft on tap and real atmosphere. For example, ask Mr. Cronin (the short graying guy with the cigar behind the bar) about Norman Mailer '43. He'll remember Mailer only as the guy who didn't pay his bills. Anyway, Cronin's is filled with working people who talk about local sports...
...neighborhood places: O'Connors, on Beacon Street, rivals Whitney's in price, and the ambience is strictly Irish neighborly and close-knit; Studley's, on Kirkland, is a little less homey and more corporate, featuring a 6-foot high color TV screen and professionally frosted steins of draft beer. Kevin's Club, in the same area, features country and western bands many nights and a slick, dress-up interior, the sort of place where working people go on a night out with their families minus their youngest children. In general, try the neighborhood bars in all sections of Cambridge...