Hash #1750 – Spermit

When:
November 13, 2016 @ 2:00 pm – 11:45 pm
2016-11-13T14:00:00-05:00
2016-11-13T23:45:00-05:00
Where:
Pittsburgh Bottleshop Cafe
1597 Washington Pike
Bridgeville, PA 15017
USA

Who: The Spermit Veterns Day/Whiskey Rebellion Trail

What: Pittsburgh H3, Trail #1750

When: 2pm, Sunday November 13th, 2016, 2pm

Where: Pittsburgh Bottleshop Cafe
1597 Washington Pike
Bridgeville, PA. 15017
412-279-8170

Why: ’cause the Hare Raiser is a tyrant and she is forcing me to do this.

Other stuff:  Spermit will provide beer and whiskey for the stops, before and after is on yinz.

Trail is A to A (kinda) also dog friendly, but not at the bar, Sauce got rowdy after a long scouting day and they kicked his ass out.

Some boring history (to see if the mic thing works on this new phone)

In 1790 the new national government of the United States, led by the Federalists, was attempting to establish itself. On March 3rd, 1791 as a way to pay debts incurred by the colonies during the Revolutionary War, the Congress passed a federal excise tax on whiskey produced in the United States.

Cash was rare on the Western frontier. The farmers had little currency to pay the tax, and turning their grain into whiskey was the only practical way to get their crops to market.

As a result, organized resistance to the tax began to grow in Western Pennsylvania. The resistance was increased by many inflammatory articles written by John Holcroft under the pen name of “Tom the Tinker”. The insurgents, who at the time were commonly called “Whiskey Boys” destroyed the property of farmers who were willing to pay the tax, and federal revenue officials were beaten, tarred feathered.

In July 1794, on each of two successive days, an angry mob of “Whiskey Boys” marched through the Kane woods, to the plantation home of the Federal Inspector of the excise, General John Neville, which was located at the top of Bower Hill. There was shooting on both days between the insurgents and the defenders on the Neville plantation. Two local insurgents, James McFarlane and Oliver Miller, were killed during the attacks on Bower Hill. The insurgents burned Neville’s home and outbuildings, Neville a narrowly escaped the grasp of the crowd.

It was this violent reaction of the people Western PA that compelled President George Washington in September 1794 to call 12,950 militia men to suppress the rebellion. The troops (our first veterans) met little
resistance. Instead of resistance the troops were met only with the sullen defiance of ” liberty poles” erected along the Army’s route.

The Whiskey Rebellion is important in US history and to the Hash because it provided the first real test of the new American Constitution.

Following the rebellion, of the rebels who were taken prisoner, two were convicted but were later pardoned, and the excise tax was repealed. The revolution became a resolution for the young democracy of Hashing.

So come on out and Hash the area where defiance ruled, and whiskey flowed. Where our Vets stared down the rebellion and our country began on a somewhat “sourhash” road to boozeocracy.

Hey….that mike thang really works! So if ya get lost, need to talk, or thank me for buying such a great phone call, Spermit at: 412-728-8972.

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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