First-time Americans

The roots of the American Revolution lie in part around the waterfront areas of Boston where the efforts of many maritime workers helped spark the first moments of independence. Russell Bourne, the author of Cradle of Violence asserts that without the maritime mobs' violent demonstrations against authority, politicians of the day would not have been gotten behind the American War of Independence.

And we talk about American independence with inventor and businessman Sam Asano who's giving the keynote address at the Naturalization ceremony at Strawberry Banke on July 4th in Portsmouth. More than 200 people will be naturalized; Asano went through the naturalization process himself in 1967 and credits the freedoms of the United States with his success.