Revolutionary Tea on a Gambrel Roof

Sunday, September 20th, 3pm

A free event as part of Trails & Sails. Reservations stringly reccomended for this event! Arrive early to enjoy our exhibits. Doors open at 2:30pm.

A dramatization of ‘A Gambrel Roof’, a poem by Lucy Larcom. Back by popular demand!

A creative theatrical presentation of a circa 1875 local poem about the historic Danvers Jeremiah Page House. Period music, and an art installation add to the illustration of the story:

In about 1770, when the British monarchy started taxing tea in the colonies, Jeremiah told Sarah that “no tea shall be drunk in this house”.  However, while her husband was away one day, Sarah and two friends secretly had their tea ON the roof of the house.  In Sarah’s words, “Upon a house is not within it”, so she was still obeying her husband’s wishes.  This story was told to Anne L. Page, Jeremiah’s granddaughter, by…