Author: Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly is a journalist and historian. His latest book is Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence (now out in paperback from St. Martin's Griffin). His new book about the Erie Canal, Heaven's Ditch, will be available in July 2016. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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Revolutionary Friendship

Two men are sitting drinking pints of ale in a Boston tavern. One is a strapping, full-faced young merchant given to loud laughter; the other has shoulders broadened by work in an iron forge, but is lame, asthmatic and a little unsure of himself in the big city. It’s 1774 and the men are meeting […]

by Jack Kelly