“The next night an indignation meeting was held in Boston’s Old South Meeting House, a prime example of one of the most original and durable of New England colonial institutions: the church considered  not only as a place of worship but as a court of law and a social center and the very hub of political life.’’

— Author and BBC commentator Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) on the response to the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770) in America (1973)