The first townhall meeting took place in Dorchester in 1633...

The town hall meeting is ingrained in the history of New England from its earliest colonial days. While in decline, the town hall meeting is still the form of government in use today in a number of small towns in New England. History of Town Meeting: Origins of Small Town Government and Direct Democracy

The first recorded gathering of voters in America took place in Dorchester, MA in 1633. According to the Dorchester Athenaeum online, a Town Meeting Square tablet commemorates the approximate location of the meeting house, which was also used as a school. The gist of this historic first was that the townsmen, by vote, agreed to meet at regular intervals to see to the "good and well ordering of the affayres of the Plantation." Soon after, the greater Boston area had begun adopting the process.

Every school child in America is taught about the town hall meetings of New England as being the cradle of the development of democratic principles of government in America. It is our shared history and defines who we are as Americans. It is to be revered, honored and respected.


READ MORE HERE.... http://arizona.typepad.com/blog/2009/08/americas-long-tradition-of-town-hall-meetings-under-attack-from-gop-agitators.html

What these violent disrupter thugs are doing is utterly disgusting and un-American and they should be called out for it bigtime.

town meetings.

The colonial invaders had no such tradition to draw upon. It was the 'godless savages' of yesteryear who clued them in to this fundamental aspects of democracy.

Was it Chocorua or his son? Can't quite remember...