A Very Polite Tea Party

Mary Katharine Ham reports from North Carolina, with some historic flavor:

Several teenaged girls stood in the front row of the crowd with their mothers, a denim-clad, modern-day echo of the first organized protest by women in the American colonies, which took place in this very town on October 25, 1774, and went down in history as the Edenton Tea Party. Though the women of Edenton didn't dump tea into the bay that day, as their revolutionary brethren in Boston had done the year before, they drafted a letter of solidarity, promising to forsake "British tea and cloth."

Her Weekly Standard article in full here.