The Boston Tea Party Museum is highlighting the connection between the revolutionary movement and a revolutionary poet.They're doing it with Cathryn Philipp's help."It's probably one of the best jobs, if not the best job that I've ever had," Philipp said. "So, not just saying it because I'm on camera, but definitely, yes!" Philipp starts her day onboard a floating museum in Boston Harbor just off Congress Street. The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum offers visitors an interactive experience of the famed revolutionary movement. And it offers actors like Philipp a chance to engage those visitors in new ways."So it's nice to be on that sort of more personal level with it rather than just being on the stage and being away from the audience," she said.The museum has been preparing for the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, joining several other organizations in curating a grand-scale re-enactment of the event. That includes packing tea crates with hundreds of pounds of donated tea from around the world to be tossed into the water at the end of the reenactment.However, visitors can experience the historic event year-round. " not only educating people, but just having fun as well," she said. "Every single day."Philipp's role in her job, and as part of this anniversary celebration, includes portraying writer Phillis Wheatley, one of America's earliest poets who once feared she might lose her published books to the waters of Boston Harbor. Wheatley was enslaved as a young girl by the Wheatley family, who also educated her. She would eventually produce essays and books, including "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," which was published in England. In 1773, those books were on board the Dartmouth, one of the ships that also held chests of tea from the British East India Company headed for Boston. “She's very worried because that's three years of work, that something could happen to either, you know, the rumors of burning the ships or things like that, that will affect her greatly," Philipp said.While Wheatley's books were carefully retrieved from the Dartmouth, the tea on board would be tossed during the famed event sparking the American Revolution. "Thankfully, because of that, soon after, she will have her books published in Boston," Philipp said. "And people will be more aware of her and attentive to her in a positive manner."Recently, the museum was able to obtain one of those surviving copies to show Wheatley's connection to Boston, the Tea Party and her legacy as a writer. For Philipp, portraying Wheatley is a way to keep her legacy alive and provide a new way for visitors to interact with history. “It's just wonderful to hear people who know of her and are happy to just see someone represented," she said. "So, wanting to continue to do that and keep that alive while I'm here is what pushes me forward to do the best that I can embodying her.”You can learn more about the 250th anniversary events here.