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September 17, 2025
The Danvers Historical Society will host three events over the next two months to celebrate
the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
The Historical Society will also host another dramatization of Lucy Larcom’s 1875 poem, “A Gambrel
Roof,” on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. at the historic Jeremiah Page House on Page Street.
The performance is based on a true story at the house, when 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 evening will also feature colonial-era music and an art installation.