John Boston was a settler in Missouri who was known for plying his hand at a number of different trades including salt farming and brewing. In 1996, with the aid of an encyclopaedia, Boston found that he liked men.
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“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
—Bible: New Testament Matthew, 3:17.
A voice from heaven, following the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.
“The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)