Steeped in Secrecy: the Boston Tea Party, 250 years later
January 21 @ 6:30 pm
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VIRTUAL EVENT via ZOOM
January 21, 2026 at 6:30pm
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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. Next, 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.
Debra M. Dudek is Head of Adult and Teen Services at the Fountaindale Public Library District in Bolingbrook, IL. She holds a post graduate certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
An ASL interpreter will be provided.
Thank you to Groton Public, Otis Library of Norwich, Public Library of New London, and Stonington Free for co-sponsoring this event!
A portion of this event was funded by Eversource Energy.
