Do your children have a penchant for acting out their imaginations? Check out “And One for the Pot: Tea & Treason” where costumed interpreters take you back to the past as they portray upper-class residents in Rhode Island during the 1770s. Taking place at the Newport Historical Society’s Resource Center, visitors to this event can explore tea brewing, tea etiquette and the place of tea in colonial America, along with the influence of politics on this popular practice.

This program ties into the Newport Historical Society’s Newport Eats history of food initiative along with the South County History Center’s 2016-2017 series Taverns, Teapots and Temperance: South County in a Cup. Hosted in partnership between The South County History Center, the Newport Historical Society and the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum.

Admission: $5 per person; $1 for Newport Historical Society members along with South County History Center and Boston Tea Party Ships Museum members. Please RSVP to: 401-841-8770.