Here’s the tea

October 20, 2026 · 9:00 pm 1 sources

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• Here’s the tea
  MIT Technology Review · October 20, 2026 21:00
  When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old South Meeting House, he had no reason to doubt its story. Descendants of the Boston blacksmith Thomas Wells had donated the label in 1987, saying it had been recovered after…