Pax-salon Mailing List: Conversational Salon

[patty (pattypax]

HI,  this Tuesday, May 22, we will have an evaluation salon.  Please 
come and lets share how the salons are doing and what we could be doing 
differently.  Thanks.  (probably end up talking about politics!!)

Next Tuesday,  Polly Mann will be there and her play titled John Peter 
Zenger will be read by some people.  Here is the gist of it:

The play, based on an actual historical event involving John Peter 
Zenger, takes place in 1735 when the US was still part of the British 
Empire.  Zenger was a German immigrant printer who established the 
first partisan political journal in the US, The New York Weekly 
Journal, in which he is accused of corrupting the governor of New York, 
an appointee of the King.  Zenger was tried for printing libelous 
material.  The verdict set the precedent for an important principle of 
law still in effect today.   Much of the material came from transcripts 
of the trial.