Join Sandra Heiler, MPI’s Treasurer, to dive into the history of America’s early days and discover what it truly meant to become an American in 1774!

2024 marked the 250th anniversary when men from all over Maryland and, within weeks, from almost all of the original thirteen colonies, met to sign historic promises to cease all trade with Britain in response to her brutal retaliation against Boston for the Boston Tea Party in 1773. This talk puts these men’s actions into the larger picture of a transition, as American colonists began to see themselves no longer as English-men and -women, but as Americans.