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2nd Annual Yorktown Tea Festival
November 7 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
2nd Annual Yorktown Tea Festival
Wednesday, November 6 – Friday, November 8, 2024
🍵✨ Spill the Tea, Yorktown Style! ✨🍵
Get ready for the second annual Yorktown Tea Festival from November 6-8, 2024, at some iconic spots like the American Revolution Museum, Watermen’s Museum, and more! Get your tickets HERE
Here’s the scoop:
- 🫖 Sip & Savor: Sample unique tea blends and discover the secrets behind historic and herbal teas!
- 📚 Tea with a Twist: Learn about the culture and politics of tea on the verge of the American Revolution!
- 🎤 Keynote Speaker Alert: Susanna Reppert Brill, a tea and herb expert, will spill all the leafy details on the history of herbs and tea!
- ⏰ Daily Fun: Kick things off with a tea tasting at 10 a.m. and wrap up with a delightful 3 p.m. tea time!
Get ready for a tea-rrific time! Full itinerary below.
Boxed lunches and refreshments included with price of admission. Tickets cost $50 per day.
Itinerary
Wednesday, Nov. 6
This year’s keynote speaker, Susanna Reppert Brill, clinical herbalist and manager of the Rosemary House & Gardens in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, will take guests on a tea-riffic journey on the history of herbs and tea on opening day (Nov. 6) at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.
- 10 a.m. Meet & Greet Tea Tasting
- 10:30 a.m. Keynote Speaker – Susanna Reppert-Brill
- 11 a.m. Session 1 – Blending Your Own Tea with Tea Susanna Reppert-Brill
- 12 p.m. Lunch Session – Spilling the Tea on the Tea Parties!
- 2 p.m. Session 2 – Explore the Museum at Your Own Pace (Self-Guided Tour Includes Tea-Focused Gallery Guide)
- 3 p.m. Tea Time – Protest (Raspberry) Tea
Thursday, Nov. 7
On Day 2, guests will meet at York Hall (301 Main Street) and be escorted around Historic Main Street.
- 10 a.m. Meet & Greet Tea Tasting at York Hall with Lee Ann Rose – The Colonial Ladies’ Response to the Tea Trouble
- 11 a.m. Session 1 – Custom House Garden with Jennifer Carver – What Herbs Were Crushed & Brewed During the American Revolution
- 12 p.m. Lunch Session at Grace Episcopal Church
- 2 p.m. Session 2 – Tea with America’s First Ladies of Tea with Winette Jeffery
- 3 p.m. Tea Time at Grace Church
Friday, Nov. 8
Day 3 will begin at York Hall (301 Main Street) to continue to Yorktown Battlefield and the Watermen’s Museum
- 10 a.m. Meet & Greet Tea Tasting at York Hall with Winette Jeffery – The Trail of James Lipton
- 11 a.m. Session 1 – Yorktown Colonial Pottery / Poor Potter Site Tour with Dwayne Scheid of Colonial National Historical Park / Yorktown Battlefield
- 12 p.m. Lunch Session – Smuggling along the Waterfront at the Watermen’s Museum
- 2 p.m. Session 2 – Tea Etiquette with York Gardens & Tea Room
- 3 p.m. Tea Time at the Watermen’s Museum featuring Mobjack Tea Blends
The free, accessible Yorktown Trolley will be in operation beginning at 11 a.m. during this event.
