On one occasion, two women posted themselves as human letters to Downing Street; on another, suffragettes boarded a boat, and sailed towards the terrace of parliament, where 800 people had gathered for tea.
Graduates gathered for tea in the Dean's Yard in Westminster, England, and released 1,000 blue balloons over London.
Guests gather for iced tea each afternoon on the veranda at the Inn at Cooperstown, 16 Chestnut Street, (607) 547-5756, fax (607) 547-8779, www.innatcooperstown.com, a fine example of Second Empire architecture.
Again, there are other tea houses in Long Beach with more affordable teas, but the grandeur of the ship, of the service, the view, it's the perfect place to give that young little boy or girl their first high tea experience (as everyone should have one) and a great place for old friends to gather for a special tea.
At 3 p.m., after a stroll through the extraordinary gardens or a tour of the house, visitors gather for an elegant tea served on Caramoor's exquisite and original house china.
Playgoers surveying the London theater scene at present will surely mark the affinities between this assemblage and the gathering on view across the Thames at the very fine West End revival of "Absent Friends," Alan Ayckbourn's 1974 play in which six people gather for a suburban tea that comes with its own terrors.
They were fans of Virginia Woolf, and they gathered for high tea shortly before the kickoff.
More welcoming were the Women of Altitude, a group of small businesswomen who had gathered for morning tea with Fiona Scott, the MP for Lindsay.
From the 1930's until the 70's, Ocampo was at the center of the Argentine equivalent of the Bloomsbury group, which gathered for Sunday tea at her grand family villa, with its eccentric Victorian architecture built above a ravine.
La Cañada Thursday Club members and guests gathered for a tea meeting April 4 at the clubhouse where keynote speaker Reg Green gave a presentation marking Donate Life Month.
People gather for a whole new community and experience around tea. Indeed, there are tea guides at every store who can walk you through the process of finding the right tea smell and taste for you and how you feel.
