Hannah the Founding Mother

Chapter 4 Stamp Act

Hannah popped out in a dimly lit room. She felt her way around and found a knob. A doorknob perhaps, she turned it and entered a brighter room with 5 printing presses and newspapers piled high all over the room. A team of several men would operate them - one would put the paper into the press and another would put ink on the press. The press would then stamp the paper, creating a newspaper.

Hannah found a light switch outside the closet she just came out of. She flipped it on and Steve ran out and looked at her expectantly. He ran back inside the closet and pulled on a piece of cloth. Hannah followed him and found out that it was a journalist's outfit. She put it on - perfect fit!

She walked back out with Steve next to her and shut the door, which had writing on it that said, "EMPLOYEES ONLY." She walked around the printing house and picked up a newspaper "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE OF STAMP ACT! IF ANYONE CAN HELP, PLEASE DO! THIS MAY BE THE LAST PAPER YOU READ UNTIL THE STAMP ACT IS REPEALED UNLESS YOU CAN HELP OUT!" it read, and it also had the date 1765. Hannah took the copy outside to show it to some colonists and see what they thought.

Hannah stopped a woman that was walking outside and said, "Hi, my name is... Lidia Schmidt... and I am a journalist. I would like to show you an article that hasn't been released to the public and hear your thoughts on it." The lady nods reluctantly as she lifted the newspaper to show her. Within a few moments, her face changes from disinterest to rage. Her face, once white, flushed with red.

"I can't believe it! Those dirty Britains are taxing us AGAIN for NO REASON WHATSOEVER!!!! They have NO RIGHT! No, wait - we're the ones with no rights! A pox on Britain and all its inhabitants!!!" All of the other reactions mirrored the first. Meanwhile, Hannah jotted this all down on her notepad. She walked towards another person in an alleyway, and suddenly she was falling through darkness once more.