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Ooh...! Easy. It's original brickwork. This museum's built on the bones of an 18th-century church.
This is original subfloor. - A smuggling vault.
- The church smuggled? - Ooh.
- Everybody did. Most buildings in 18th-century
Massachusetts had smuggling vaults or tunnels hidden under the basements. They hid money. Or loot
from the government. Kind of an early act of defiance against Thomas
Jefferson's first tax laws. - In fact, funny story about those...
- All right, stand back
This is original subfloor. - A smuggling vault.
- The church smuggled? - Ooh.
- Everybody did. Most buildings in 18th-century
Massachusetts had smuggling vaults or tunnels hidden under the basements. They hid money. Or loot
from the government. Kind of an early act of defiance against Thomas
Jefferson's first tax laws. - In fact, funny story about those...
- All right, stand back
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Ooh...!
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Easy.
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It's original brickwork.
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This museum's built on the bones
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of an 18th-century church.
This is original subfloor.
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- A smuggling vault.
- The church smuggled?
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- Ooh.
- Everybody did.
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Most buildings in 18th-century
Massachusetts had smuggling vaults
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or tunnels hidden under the basements.
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They hid money. Or loot
from the government.
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Kind of an early act of defiance
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against Thomas
Jefferson's first tax laws.
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- In fact, funny story about those...
- All right, stand back.
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Movie Summary
A group of librarians set off on adventures in an effort to save mysterious, ancient artifacts.
