Nowadays technology that makes communication simple surrounds us.  If you want to talk to your best friend you can: knock on his door, call him on a landline, call him on a cell phone, email him, text him, hire a sky writing plane…. Well, you get the idea.  To communicate to a larger audience, like an entire city, people use radio, television, the Internet, newspapers, and yes, sky writing planes.  On November 28, 1773, when the tea filled Dartmouth entered Boston Harbor, Patriots thought quickly of the best way to rally the people to meet.  The following day handbills were posted all over Boston screaming, “Friends! Brethren! Countrymen! That worst of Plagues, the detested tea shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the Harbor; the hour of destruction, or manly opposition to the machinations of Tyranny stares you in the face.  Every friend to his country, to himself and to posterity, is now called upon to meet at Faneuil Hall, at nine o’clock THIS DAY (at which time the bells will ring), to make united and successful resistance to this last, worst, and most destructive measure of administration.” The handbills worked so well that the crowd moved from Faneuil Hall to the Old South Meeting House, which held more people.  Talk about the power of the pen!