Local Historian Bob Lingle – WMOK Full Coffee Break – July 3, 2024

WMOK spoke with local historian Bob Lingle for Coffee Break on July 3, 2024.

We discussed the following topics:

• Just attended 60th reunion
• Group class reunion
• Old movies
• The US and Christopher Columbus
• The early years
• The name “America”
• Harlem
• A country of migrants
• Wars
• British empire
• Solitary neglect
• Conservatives and liberals
• Good ol days
• Freedom of religion
• Church of England
• Pilgrims
• 3 most influential people
• Taxes and laws
• Tea Tax
• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• John Adams
• The Munsters
• Colonies getting together
• Declaration of Independence
• The shot heard around the world
• Why we celebrate the 4th of July
• Anit-Boredom month

Hear our full Coffee Break with local historian Bob Lingle below: