tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1464685837290004633..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Dr. Eliot’s Gossip about Boston’s MinistersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-10015314466851509632013-07-29T16:58:49.597-05:002013-07-29T16:58:49.597-05:00I read that when the seeds are removed from raisin...I read that when the seeds are removed from raisins today (unless they've been made from seedless grapes, when that step isn't necessary). That implies the seeds were still lurking inside grapes before that step, and presumably that's what the Rev. Mr. Checkley was finding in his teeth. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-55993255440415956372013-07-29T13:46:31.730-05:002013-07-29T13:46:31.730-05:00I realize I may still be chuckling from the mental...I realize I may still be chuckling from the mental image of the Rev Checkley (Andy Devine)chomping on plums while his Congregation belted out something from the Psalm Book (not quite how I pictured a Sabbath day service in colonial Boston), but how does one spit out the seeds from raisins onto the floor of a church? Isn't it rather difficult to separate the seeds from the pulp? And didn't anyone sweep the floors of those churches? <br />I know that wild grapes were abundant in Massachusetts and that the early colonials were obsessed with trying to make wine from them, but I'm afraid I don't know much about the production of raisins. Just curious.EJWitekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05796418061787943596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-66462218698751663002013-07-29T09:47:24.006-05:002013-07-29T09:47:24.006-05:00The 1719 split of the New North Meeting, which yie...The 1719 split of the New North Meeting, which yielded the New Brick Meeting, is one of my favorite incidents of colonial Boston. The distaste for Rev. Peter Thacher was obviously quite high. It yielded, among other colorful incidents, the golden rooster weathervane which is now atop First Church Congregational in Cambridge.<br /><br />New Brick, incidentally, was the church that Paul Revere attended, but he was born 15 years after that contentious split.Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.com