Thames River Heritage Park Performance Series – Women of the Revolution
History takes center stage in Thames River Heritage Park’s six-part Performance Series, History Comes Alive in the Park. Through engaging reenactments, lively debates, music, and storytelling, talented performers will bring historical figures and events to life, offering audiences a unique opportunity to experience history beyond the pages of a textbook.
The series will explore the people, personalities, and events that shaped our nation, with special attention to the American Revolution, women’s contributions, and our region’s rich maritime heritage.
From the intrigue of Benedict and Peggy Arnold and the spirited debate surrounding the Boston Tea Party to the powerful voices of Harriet Beecher Stowe, revolutionary women, and New London’s own Abigail Hinman, each performance offers a different perspective on the past.
More than simply learning about history, audiences will have the opportunity to see it, hear it, and experience it firsthand. Ticket holders will also have access to museum galleries prior to the performance during the reception.
Date: Tuesday, February 9, Women of the Revolution
Time: Reception 6 pm, Performance 6:30 pm
Cost: TRHP & Lyman Allyn Members $15 +fees, non members $20 +fees. Call 860-443-2545 ext. 2129 or email [email protected] for the Lyman Allyn Member Discount Code
Purchase online here.
Meet six heroines including a soldier, a spy and a seamstress. Though women’s stories and their documented contributions to the war for independence are few, they represent what thousands of women probably did do. Women ran the family farms and businesses while men were away. But they also were camp cooks, laundresses and nurses, participating in resistance efforts and, surprisingly, they were also spies and soldiers. To get a real sense of women’s lives and their war efforts, Bev will present these women by wearing different hats, accessories and she will use various vintage props. She will walk her audience through the empowering evolution of women during the Revolution. And what of the courageous women who raised a house frame in Hampton after the men left to join the ranks? Molly Pitcher, whose real name was Mary Hayes, who manned the artillery and Private Robert Shirtiff who was Deborah Sampson Garrett and who wore a military outfit although women were barred from joining up. And the stories keep coming.
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