Steeped in Secrecy: The Boston Tea Party, 250 Years Later (Zoom)

Please join us for a Zoom presentation by Claire Evans called Steeped in Secrecy: The Boston Tea Party, 250 Years Later.  The story of tea has always been infused with intrigue, particularly when it became a flash point for tensions between England and Colonial America.  Learn about the brewing political problems tea presented in its history with Anglophile and former UK resident Claire Evans. Then, author, genealogist, librarian, and former UK resident Debra Dudek examines the history of the Boston Tea Party’s most famous partiers (and phonies), as well as how to trace bonafide participants through lineage societies and historical groups.

Claire Evans is an author, former journalist, attorney, and college lecturer who started her love of most things British as she and her mother watched countless Britcoms on PBS. She studied abroad in London and, against the odds, she married a Brit she met in Peoria, Illinois. They lived in England for a number of years. Her business, Tea with Claire, grew from friends asking for travel advice. Her memoir, High Tea and the Low Down, is the true story of what it's really like to marry a witty Englishman, move to Britain, and make every cultural faux pas imaginable.

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