Union County - Mountainside - MAIZIE BREWS A TEA BUSINESS
Sunday, April 7 – Union County MAIZIE BREWS A TEA BUSINESS A Dramatic Presentation at Mountainside’s Hetfield House MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ – On Sunday afternoon, April 7, 2019 at 1:00 – 3:00pm, the Mountainside Historic Committee will host “Maizie Brews a Tea Business” a dramatic presentation, brought to us in conjunction with the Public Scholars Project of The New Jersey Council for the Humanities, at the Deacon Andrew Hetfield House. Guests will be entertained as Maizie discusses her experiences as a woman in 1925 opening her own business – a Tea Room. Ironically, the Deacon Andrew Hetfield House once operated as a Tea Room during prohibition. What if it was 1925 and you wanted to open a Tea Room? What if you were a woman who wanted to open a business? In this dramatic presentation, Maizie Stanton will explain how her husband reacted and what she needed to do to prepare for this undertaking. During this session, the challenges faced by women who were ste...