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Coffee, Tea & Conversation: Steeped in RevolutionNo taxation without caffeination!
This December, we’re adding a little tea to our usual Coffee & Conversation. Join us for a special tea party exploring the surprisingly political history of what New Englanders put in their cups.
We’ll begin with the Boston Tea Party and the other tea protests and boycotts that swept through the colonies in the years leading up to the American Revolution. When drinking imported tea became a political statement, Americans experimented with “Liberty Teas” made from local plants and increasingly turned to another familiar drink: coffee.
Nearly a century later, tea became political once again. In December 1873, thousands gathered at Faneuil Hall for the New England Woman’s Suffrage Association’s “Woman’s Tea Party,” deliberately invoking the legacy of the Revolution in the continuing fight for voting rights.
And because talking about tea is considerably more fun while drinking it, we’ll have a selection to sample along the way, including Bohea-style black tea like the varieties destroyed in Boston Harbor, herbal Liberty Teas, and, of course, coffee.
Come have a cup with us and discover how something as ordinary as your morning drink became part of protests, boycotts, revolutions, and changing American identity.
Coffee and Conversation is generously sponsored by Beantrust.
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117 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01915
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