Tea & Smoke

This cookie is a holiday-time tradition, but great all year long. And, it's actually more American than apple pie. (Ahem ~ The earliest recorded apple pie recipe appeared in an English cookbook in 1381!) The sugar cookie as we know it is genuinely American, created in the 1700s by Moravian settlers in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, who baked simple “Nazareth Sugar Cookies” from flour, sugar, butter, and eggs and shaped them with cutters. While older European cookies, like German Spr

The year is almost over and we're closing it out with lots of spooky holiday fun as well as year-ahead divination offerings! ​ December Sat Dec 6, 10a-2pm, Chestertown, MD - Walk-in Tarot Readings  at the Dickens of a Christmas Festival & Holiday Event , inside the Old Bank Vault ​ Sat Dec 6, 5pm, Chestertown, MD - UnMerry Monsters of Yule/Creepy Christmas , at the Dickens of a Christmas Festival & Holiday Event , in the Sultana building, second floor meeting room at 200 Sout

November   Sat Nov 1, 7p, Lancaster, PA - History of PA Witches on Dias de los Muertos Weekend , hosted by The 9 Collective . Eventbrite tickets here .   Sun Nov 2, 1p, York, PA - Ghost Stories & Cemetariums at House of Flowers;  email for a spot houseofflowersyork@hotmail.com   SOLD OUT AS OF 10/1/25   Mon Nov 3, 7p, Reading, PA - Creepy Little Christmas , kick off your holidaze at  Exeter Library with the unmerriest of monsters. Call for ticket, (610) 406-9431   Thurs Nov