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Published 12:32 pm Tuesday, March 19, 2024

By DONALD MOTTERN | Staff Writer

COLUMBIANA On Saturday, March 16, roughly 100 guests turned out in their Saturday best at the Shelby County Arts Councils Grande Hall for the seventh annual Easter Bunny Tea Party organized by the Columbiana Beautification Board.

The family-friendly event was tailored to younger audiences and allowed families to dress up for the approaching holiday. All attendees were able to sit for a formal style tea party that offered cupcakes, cookies and other snacks in the way of refreshments.

This is one of the main fundraisers for the Columbiana Beautification Board, and it is certainly one of our favorites, said Lisa Davis, chairperson for the Columbiana Beautification Board. We have the bunnies, the food, fun dancing and the music, so of course it is one of our favorite things we do.

Returning for its seventh year, the Easter Bunny Tea Party serves as one of the two major fundraisers for the board each year. Tickets to this years event were $15 per person and included a meet and greet with the bunnies for the children and the opportunity to mingle with the board for the parents.

We take the proceeds from this fundraiser and we give back to Columbiana in the ways of planting flowers, purchasing and installing benches and picnic tables, Davis said. The event helps support any kind of community project that we do that we might not have a budget for.

Davis and other members of the beautification board arrived at the Grande Hall as early as 5 a.m. the day of the event to finalize preparations and to begin the staging for the event. Burley Girl Bakery also aided in supplying the event by donating bunny shaped cookies for the occasion.

We have nine local ladies that are on our beautification board, and we are all volunteers, Davis said. We are an active and working board and we work hard to make these events as fun and successful as possible.

Decorations for the event included table runners featuring embroidered Easter imagery and lettering that matched with individualized table settings and decorations that made each place setting unique.

Following the formal tea party, where guests mingled and enjoyed their refreshments, younger guests and their parents were able to take to the dance floor. Throughout the event, songs were played from a number of Disney movies, most notably Encanto, Aladdin and Frozen.

The musical arrangement also included traditional Easter themed party songs that invited children to bounce like a bunny, and even featured popular pop music and a dash of Elvis Presley when Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny took to the dance floor to the tune of Cant Help Falling in Love.

We thought it would be nice to let Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny have a special moment between the two of them, Davis said. We had so much fun at the bunny tea. (It is) hard work, but (it is) such a reward seeing all those smiling, dancing, adorable kiddos.

This event also marked the third time that the event was held in the Grande Hall at the Shelby County Arts Council, which allowed the crowd ample area to move around and enjoy the festivities. The use of the venue marks a level of cooperation between the beautification board, the SCAC and the community.

We thank you all, Davis said. These fundraisers allow us to do so many things for downtown and throughout the city of Columbiana that we might not otherwise have the budget to do. When you see us downtown working, planting flowers and fun things like thatthese guys are the ones who support us doing that.

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Party Pics

Dispatches from the city's swankiest affairs: The third annual Newbury Cup tea party, the Mass General for Children Storybook Ball and the United in Style fashion show.

Presenting the award and one of those checks that never fit into the ATM: from left, Cedric Tonello, Simone Winston, Raymond Santos, Shannon Pastuszak, Lisa Pierpont, Margery Gann, and Carlos Bueno. / Photo by Cheryl Richards

The third annual Newbury Cup tea party took place at the Newbury Boston, where the ballroom overlooking the Public Garden was packed to capacity with a high-powered, flawlessly dressed, mostly female crowd. Conceived by Simone Winston, Lisa Pierpont, and Shannon Pastuszak, the group chooses a charitable theme (fighting homelessness, increasing access to mental health care, etc.) and researches emerging local nonprofits that address that particular need.

After voting on a winner, they volunteer there for a year, and it all culminates in a delightful afternoon of extended pinkies and bonhomie, where as much champagne is imbibed as Earl Grey, and plenty of tea is spilled. The winning charity also receives a loving cup from Tiffanys and a hefty donation. This years recipient was Ethos, a nonprofit that provides services to the elderly ranging from home care to meal delivery, hosts an annual senior prom, and operates a weekly luncheon catering to older members of the LGBTQ+ community.

On hand for the afternoon were the likes of Back Bay boss lady Maura Connolly, aptly named hotelier Carlos Bueno, force of nature Jane Deery, the effervescent Kat VanDernoot, soign superwoman Penny Fireman, Tiffanys charmer Cedric Tonello, recycling titan Karen Osborn, fashion icon Adriana Hassan, Ethos chief development officer Raymond Santos, and so on and so forth.

Tables were decorated with teapots and cups depicting the mallards from Make Way for Ducklings, as well as gorgeous flower arrangements and towers of tea sandwiches and treats. Overheard while everyone was searching for their place cards: Ive already seen everyone in this room twice this week, and Ill see them all again on Saturday. Sometimes, it feels like there are only 200 people in Boston.

Perhaps true, but Boston now has a new tea party to be proud of.

Tables were decorated with teapots and cups depicting the mallards from Make Way for Ducklings. / Photo by Cheryl Richards

Adelle Chang and Sinesia Karol prove that you can never go wrong in all-black with silver buttons. / Photo by Cheryl Richards

Adriana Hassan and Julie Joyal prove that you dont necessarily need the silver buttons. / Photo by Cheryl Richards

Penny Fireman, Veronica Bacon, and Elizabeth Georgantas offering variations on the theme. / Photo by Cheryl Richards

Ashley Bernon-Miller and Olga St. Clair styling it a bit differently. / Photo by Cheryl Richards

Vanessa Kerry and MGH chief medical officer William Curry shattering the illusion that doctors only ever wear scrubs. / Photo by Matt West

An indisputable highlight of the citys social calendar is the Storybook Ball to benefit Mass General for Children. This year, the black-tie evening, held at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport and cochaired by Rachel and Bill Motley and Laura Will and David Nicholson, featured its signature carnival booths, cocktails, dinner, and dancing (not necessarily in that order). The live auction, meanwhile, included a Kentucky Derby package, a dinner catered by top chef Douglass Williams and sommelier extraordinaire TJ Douglas, and the opportunity to watch your kid scramble after rebounds during warmup at a Celtics game.

East Hampton Twon Councilwoman Sylvia Overby and Acropolis Advisors chief economist Roger Brinner. / Photo by Matt West

Unfairly attractive cochairs Laura Will and David Nicholson. / Photo by Matt West

WBZs Brandon Truitt and Meagan Kolkmann looking spiffy with Mass General for Childrens Scott Hadland. / Photo by Matt West

Emcees Ramiro Torres and Shayna Seymour. / Photo by Hill Zhou

The United in Style fashion show was held at The Shops at Chestnut Hill to benefit Dress for Success and Project Smile, two nonprofits providing men and women in need with wardrobes to help them reenter the workforce. WCVBs Chronicle anchor Shayna Seymour and Ramiro Torres of HOT 96.9 served as emcees, and the cocktail party before the runway presentation loosened everyones purse strings enough to raise nearly $20,000.

City Councilor at Large Ruthzee Louijeune. / Photo by Hill Zhou

Who Wore It Better, Headware Division: Miss Massachusetts Chelsea Vuong and basketball star Robert Williams. / Photo by Hill Zhou

WCVBs Brianna Borghi giving off major Barbie news-anchor vibes. / Photo by Hill Zhou

Dress for Success power pair Kim Todd and Kristen Daly. / Photo by Hill Zhou

First published in the print edition of theFebruary 2024 issue with the headline, Long May It Runneth Over.

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The New England Revolution will sport some new threads this season, inspired by Bostons rebellious history.

The Boston Tea Party kits, revealed Wednesday, will serve as the teams primary uniforms for the upcoming 2024 and 2025 MLS seasons.

The Revolutions new Boston Tea Party uniforms commemorate the recent 250th anniversary of its namesake event in December 1773, one of earliest and most epic acts of positive defiance in the countrys history, the team announced.

The team said each detail in the kit was intentional. The navy jerseys with red shoulders are reminiscent of the Revs retro uniforms. An R crest on the tag on the lower left front of the jersey was inspired by the East India Trading Company lettering, a reference to the tea crates dumped into Boston Harbor in 1773.

The Boston Tea Party jerseys are now on sale to fans in the Gillette Stadium Pro Shop and MLSstore.com.

New England will play its first match in the new uniforms on Wednesday at 1 p.m. in a preseason friendly against the Philadelphia Union. Fans can stream the game live on PhiladelphiaUnion.com.

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First look: Revolution debut new 'Boston Tea Party' kits - The Boston Globe

Impassioned Destruction, an exhibit at the Old State House, utilizes unconventional art styles and vibrant colors typically not associated with the 18th century to perpetuate the subject of property destruction. Impassioned Destruction: Politics, Vandalism and the Boston Tea Party presented by Revolutionary Spaces, dives into the contemporary relevance of disruptive activism through the lens of one of the United States most iconic acts of rebellion The Boston Tea Party.

On Dec. 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty threw 340 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor as a means of protest against the British governments unfair taxation. The Boston Tea Party took nearly a century to disentangle itself from the ridiculed nature that embodied it at the time. Since then, Americans have utilized vandalism as a form of protest, with the modern day Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection being a notable example. The exhibit encourages visitors to reflect on instances of property destruction in relation to the Tea Party and ponder the justifiability of actions in the pursuit of a cause.

The bigger goal of Impassioned Destruction is to encourage people to think more broadly and critically about their own histories; we can be proud of America and American heritage while still not swallowing the mythology that created our founding, said Matthew Wilding, director of interpretation and education at Revolutionary Spaces.

The exhibit walks through the cause and effects of the Tea Party.

The core question Ive always had about The Boston Tea Party is why do people blanket celebrate it, when, if they are asked, they usually say property damage is bad, Wilding said.

As visitors progress through the interactive display, they confront the revelation; iconic figures of the American Revolution and United States history held opposing views on this celebrated act of protest.

The exhibit isnt always clear. Visitors see the Boston Tea Party and think I know this story; however, you continue through and realize George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were against the Tea Party, and it is interesting to think this huge event is celebrated, but these heroes that we have didnt like it, said Emily Yurkus, a visitor experience supervisor at Revolutionary Spaces.

Property destruction in the United States, exemplified by events like the Boston Tea Party, remains a tactic for protestors. Upon entrance, the visitors are met with the question: Do you believe that the participants of the Boston Tea Party were justified in destroying the tea on December 16, 1773?

On Jan. 14, the vote was yes.

One of the most interesting parts is to see how the different voting exhibits change. Most days it is some mixture, some days it is all yes and some days very rare days they have all been no, Yurkus said.

The exhibit explains in detail the amount of tea destroyed. With so much destruction, it took over a generation for this act to be turned into an origin story of the country. It was, after all, renamed the Boston Tea Party rather than The Destruction of the Tea.

In 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, a law which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. This reaffirmed Parliaments power to tax the colonies without representation.

The Tea Party marked a notable chapter in Bostons history, and by comparing events in the other colonies, it becomes clear that Bostons response was exceptional in terms of its intensity.

This was an era where property destruction and mob life was part of Boston, said Malcolm Purinton, an assistant teaching professor of history at Northeastern.

About halfway through the exhibit, another voting station is placed with the question: Do you believe that participants of the Boston Tea Party were justified in destroying the tea on December 16, 1773? Despite being the same day and only a few feet from the prior voting station, this one was balanced with an equal number of participants voting yes and no.

In modern day, the Boston Tea Party is recognized as a proud uprising against a tyrannical government. In the exhibit, central figures vocalized it as inappropriate. Only after generations did the event become reimagined.

King George III viewed the destruction as an act of rebellion and in turn passed the Intolerable Acts, or Coercive Acts. This was a series of acts aimed to both assert control over the Massachusetts colony and punish Bostonians. The acts included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act and the Quartering Act. Attempting to serve as a warning to other colonies, these acts ultimately became known as the Intolerable Acts due to their perceived infringement on liverities.

People always talk about the actual events, but you dont hear about them before or afterwards with the reactions and punishments from the British government, Yurkus said. The British government hit the colonists pretty hard with the Intolerable Acts because it literally closed the ports, and Boston is surrounded by water, so it is their way of life. In a way, it dissolves their colonial government; it goes from a little representation to none.

The exhibit also explores other instances of property destruction in the United States.

We have a pretty tight criteria for how we select the instances of property destruction, which [is] the main objective needed to be property destruction and not the killing of a person. The people involved need to have expressly said that they supported the property destruction, Wilding said. We tried to broaden the political spectrum. As you can see, the events go from a populist conservative movement to a far-left radical movement. Causes from labor movement, religious action and tax policy action were also covered.

Events mentioned include the Stamp Act Riot of 1765, the Ursuline Convent riots of 1834, the Reading Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Bombing of Gulf Tower of 1974, with the final incident being the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

As staff, before this came out, we knew Jan. 6 would be in here, and a lot of us expected the worst. We are talking about a celebrated moment in American history and then Jan. 6, which people have vastly different interpretations 0f, Yurkus said.

The exhibit ends with a chalkboard for visitors to share their thoughts. Yurkus said visitors use this to express their emotions.

At the end of the exhibit, the question was posed again: Do you believe that the participants of the Boston Tea Party were justified in destroying the tea on December 16, 1773?

It was a unanimous yes.

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'Impassioned Destruction': Exploring vandalism and property destruction as means of protest - The Huntington News

The New England Revolution have unveiled their new jerseys for the 2024 MLS season.

The new Boston Tea Party jersey commemorates the recent 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in December 1773.

The shirt design is highlighted by red and white vertical waves on the jerseys front, which represent the ripples in the Boston Harbor made when 45 tons of tea were emptied into the water.

The event proved to be one of the main harbingers of the American Revolution, foreshadowing the ripple effect the Boston Tea Party would have throughout the colonies in sparking the Americans victorious fight for independence, The Revs said in a release.

The jocktag on the bottom-left corner of the jersey features the letter R from the Revolution crest in a font inspired by the East India Trading Company lettering that adorned the tea crates dumped into Boston Harbor in 1773.

On the back of the neck, the Heritage Tree icon pays homage to the flag of New England, which is waved proudly by club supporters during home matches, a release said. The icon includes the number 96, a subtle nod to the clubs inaugural season.

The Revs will take the field in their new jerseys in a pre-season matchup against the Philadelphia Union at 1 p.m. today.

The authentic tea party jerseys are available now in the Gillette Stadium Pro Shop and MLSstore.com.

The 2024 MLS Regular Season begins on Wednesday, February 21. The Revolution will visit the CA Independiente in Panama for Round One of the 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup.

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