DANVERS — The Danvers Historical Society will host a theater production on Saturday, May 17, to honor the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
The production of “Revolutionary Tea on a Gambrel Roof” is a dramatization of the circa 1875 poem “A Gambrel Roof” by local poet Lucy Larcom, and tells the story of a lighthearted incident at the historic Jeremiah Page House in Danvers.
The story goes that the original owner and Revolutionary War veteran, Jeremiah Page, told his wife Sarah that “no tea shall be drunk in this house” once the British monarchy began taxing tea in the colonies around 1770. Then, while he was away, Sarah and her friends had tea on the roof of the house because, as she said, “Upon a house is not within it.”
The event starts at 3 p.m. at Tapley Memorial Hall on Page Street and will feature period music, an art installation, historic tea blends and signature cakes. A Q&A session moderated by local historian Dan Gagnon will be held following the performance.
Tickets cost $20 and can be purchased at danvershistory.org.