Underpinning the sensationalism of battle reports & broadsides is the often silent steadiness of women's work with textiles. The choices they made every day about fashion and fabric consumption & creation drove the course of Revolution just as determinedly as any congress. As southern New England commemorates the 250 the anniversary (semiquincentennial) of the War for Independence, it is these local lives dressed in fulled wool or spun silk that continue to inspire creativity, resilience, and empathy in us today.

This program is presented by costumed historians and includes reproduction clothing pieces & fabric samples as well as a PowerPoint presentation with images of extant originals.

This program is sponsored in part by Enfield’s America250th Coordinating Committee, through the Office of Economic & Community Development.