Liberty Tree

[Kat Kanning]

Discussion of liberty tree project:

http://www.soulawakenings.com/underground/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Liberty+Tree

[Dave Ridley]

How to publicize the Liberty Trees?  What to put on them?

OK I am usually better at cranking out ideas than listening to them...but I am kind of drawing a blank as far as what kinds of things to put on the liberty trees.    Is there a way to make the postings look like parchment?  To make the lettering look like it's from the 18th century?   

How should we publicize this thing?  Should we hold some kind of event there?   Performances?  Sign waves?   How can we inspire other towns to do the same thing?

[Russell Kanning]

We could use some of the quotes from the establishment of Liberty Trees during revolution times. We could put it on a parchment type paper and seal it in plastic so it can handle the rain.
I like the idea of gathering there before any outdoor meeting or demonstration. We could also use the liberty trees more for positive events than protest type demonstrations.

[Dave Ridley]

I'm thinking of starting one in Nashua since I'm there a lot...Here is what I was thinking of putting on the tree for starters.  I'll e-mail a formatted version of this to Kat...perhaps she can make it look more Revolutionary era than I can.   Suggestions and corrections requested ( I know the soul awakenings index page isn't ready yet to deliver what I promised below but let me know how i should re word)

Welcome to Nashua's
Liberty
Tree

In Revolutionary times, Patriots used to designate a single tree in their town square as the "Liberty Tree."  There they would hang "liberty announcements," poems and - sometimes - hanging effigies of King George!  (there's a reason why it's not called the "Authority Tree!"    

Well, the Second American Revolution is on, and this is *your* Liberty Tree!  A place to speak your peace in defense of individual freedom.  Post your thoughts here if you like;  we'll do our best to distribute your message to a wider audience.  To learn more about New Hampshire's Liberty Trees, visit SoulAwakenings.com

Thanks for visiting this tree...
May we die or live free!


NH Liberty Trees
www.SoulAwakenings.com
(click "liberty trees" on left)

[FTL_Ian]

I like the idea of hanging effigies.  Who could be hung?

Regards,
Ian

[jcpliberty]

I love the idea of Liberty Trees. I have lots of parchement paper (as folks who came to the Bill of Rights rally in Billerica found out  )

We want this to be ecologically sound as well, so no nails. We can tie these things to trees me thinks without any real trouble.

How many people have read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Anson Heinlein? Simon Jester anyone? 

Jim P.

[Russell Kanning]

I was thinking of putting a couple of 1st american revolution era quotes about liberty trees on a sheet of paper like you have and laminating it. Maybe we can come up with a few quotes to explain it and you could sell them to the rest of us and we can attach them to our liberty tree of choice.
I was also thinking a ribbon of some sort since our town square in Keene is full of yellow ribbons already.

[jcpliberty]

Good idea! They won't cost me much, so I wont have to charge more than cost.

Let's get cracking...

Jim P.

[Kat Kanning]

I was thinking people could set up liberty trees outside NH also....with info on the FSP included.

[jcpliberty]

I was thinking people could set up liberty trees outside NH also....with info on the FSP included.

Also a swell idea... but again, let's get cracking on what we want this parchement to say...

Jim P.

[Russell Kanning]

You can see some of the quotes from our wiki page about liberty trees. We could use one of the speeches that were made to commemorate old liberty trees. Then we could add a couple of other quotes and just start printing a few.
I like emulating the 1st revolution as much as possible, because the average NHite agreed with what happened the first time. We are mostly just wanting our country to be as free as it use to be.

[jcpliberty]

You can see some of the quotes from our wiki page about liberty trees. We could use one of the speeches that were made to commemorate old liberty trees. Then we could add a couple of other quotes and just start printing a few.
I like emulating the 1st revolution as much as possible, because the average NHite agreed with what happened the first time. We are mostly just wanting our country to be as free as it use to be.

Indeed indeed!

I will take a chance to look at it later on tonight, after I wake up! I had a long night (pulled an all nighter after spending the day in the Socialist Republic... I mean Vermont)... this is what happens when you get caught up in hobbies such as paranormal research....

So I am gonna eat and off to bed for awhile.

Jim P.

[jcpliberty]

This is the Liberty Tree flag. It was the official flag of the "Sons of Liberty", who held meetings under a statuesque elm tree in Boston and who planned the Boston Tea Party of 1773.

Jim P.

[jcpliberty]

This is the Liberty Tree flag. It was the official flag of the "Sons of Liberty", who held meetings under a statuesque elm tree in Boston and who planned the Boston Tea Party of 1773.

Jim P.

I plan on using this flag at the top of the prachment Liberty Tree flyers.

Jim P.

[jcpliberty]

I was chatting with the Billerica Town Historian about Liberty Trees and Billerica's own, Liberty Pole. She tells me the significance is one and the same. They both were used for the same reason and that it was simply a matter of choice or convience when it came to whether a town chose to have a liberty pole or tree.

Jim P.