MA250 High Tea and Speakers Event

Name: MA250 High Tea and Speakers Event
Start: 2026-06-14T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 27 Park Street, Adams, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01220

Schedule

Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

27 Park Street, Adams, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01220 | Adams, MA

As a part of the MA250 Festival in Adams, the Friends of the Adams Library, the Adams Historical Society, and the Adams Theater will host a High Tea and Speakers Event.
Attendees will enjoy a classic English High Tea with savory quiches and freshly prepared finger sandwiches followed by warm scones with clotted cream, and a variety of home made sweets and pastries. A selection of teas and other beverages will also be served. Your teacup and saucer are yours to keep!
All net proceeds will be shared between the Friends of the Adams Library, the Adams Historical Society, and the Adams Theater.
Tea in Colonial America and Great Britain
Lynda Bianchi, a retired educator, will discuss the history of tea, its consumption in England and Colonial America, and on the Boston Tea Party - one of the beginning sparks to our American Revolution. Lynda will also speak on the key differences between an Afternoon Tea, a High Tea, and a Royal High Tea.
Sam Adams/Sam Adams/Adams & Peace in Time of War
Samuel Adams comes to us over history as a beer, a revolutionary, and the namesake of our town. Incorporated in the middle of the Revolutionary War, our town was named for Sam with no clear reason why; but we have a theory. At that time, the Society of Friends, the Quakers, were the town's primary inhabitants. The war threatened a settlement of Friends in eastern New York, but divine inspiration led a local Friend to visit them and foretell a miracle.
Eugene Michalenko has been the president of the Adams Historical Society for more than thirty years and has been publishing and contributing to the Adams Historical Society Newsletter with informative and interesting articles about the town's history since 1981.