Dope and hope  Samuel Adams would be ashamed of today's Boston
I grew up in the Boston area, and the great Massachusetts leader
Samuel Adams is a major character in a couple of the history
books I wrote. The Boston that sticks with me is a bit of accent
and a bond of suffering with the Red Sox. Occasionally, I also
wax curious as to how my old townsmen have treasured not only
the beer that bears Adams's name but the cultural legacy he
left.  A couple of times I've visited the spot where the Liberty
Tree stood in the 1770s. That was where Adams and his colleagues
plotted the moves that led to the American Revolution. When last
I looked, that spot was the entry to the Combat Zone, Boston's
pornography district. This is not exactly the type of liberty
that Adams (a strongly biblical Christian) and his colleagues
envisioned.  During the fall I read about another way that
Massachusetts folk have forgotten the distinction Adams used to
make between "true liberty," which required a mature ability to
make choices u