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One of several beautiful tea settings at the official Florida Chautauqua Assembly

All teas at the official Florida Chautauqua Assembly include performances by one or more actors/actresses/performers.  Our 2010 theme is "A Journey into the Caribbean," so our educational and entertaining tea performances relate to this fascinating region of the world!   See below.
 
Tickets:  $18.  No additional charge to registrants who have a choice of attending one or two teas during the Assembly.
 

Tea with Steel Drum Performer John Bussert

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John Bussert & Friends

Enjoy live steel drum music with entertainer John Bussert while you sip your tea and envision your next trip to the Caribbean!  John will explain how steel drums work and will weave his story with live music enjoyed throughout the Caribbean islands.

Tea with the Women Pirates -
Anne Bonny & Mary Read

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Women Pirates of the Caribbean

You'll have tea and crumpets as you listen to the spellbinding tales of the two “hellcats of the Caribbean”, Anne Bonny (played by actress Wendy Wellman) & Mary Read (played by actress Michelle Murillo). Hear their adventures and stories of how they became pirates and paid the ultimate price for it – being tried for piracy in Jamaica along with their male counterparts. Then join them at their press conference as they answer your questions about the life of a female pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy.

Tea With History’s Women Pirates

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Actress Wendy Wellman plays "Anne Bonney," one of two women pirates of the Caribbean

If you ever wanted to know what it was like to be the only female pirates in all of the Caribbean, Anne Bonny (played by actress Wendy Wellman) and Mary Read (played by actress Michelle Murillo) will be happy to tell you. Learn about life aboard ship, boarding passing ships and sailing with the likes of Calico Jack Rackham and his crew. It’s the stories of the real pirates of the Caribbean as you’ve never heard them before, told by the women who were there.

Tea with Octavia Walton Le Vert

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Octavia Walton Le Vert, played by Brenda Rees

Enjoy tea and dessert while you step back in time and explore the world of travel through the eyes of an incredible and historical Northwest Florida figure, Octavia Walton Le Vert (played by Brenda Rees).  Octavia was known as a published woman author and writing peer of Harriet Beecher Stow and Louisa Mae Alcott in the mid 1800’s.  Walton County, Florida is named for her father.  Octavia's grandmother, Dorothy Walton, wife of Declaration of Independence signer George Walton, was captured during the American Revolutionary War and taken prisoner to the Caribbean.  Octavia will be brought to life through her Florida territorial days’ adventures, conversations with the well-traveled of America, and stories with the rich and famous of the world.