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SUMMARY:America 250: The Web They Wove - Women & Their Wardrobes Durin
 g New England’s Revolution
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DTSTAMP:20260415T192600Z
DTSTART:20260414T223000Z
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LOCATION:137 Old Ridgefield Rd, Wilton, CT 06897, United States
ROOM: Brubeck Room
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the Brubeck Room for a special America 250 e
 vent from the Dirty Blue Shirts, who provide living history programming to
  New England and beyond. Underpinning the sensationalism of battle reports
  and broadsides is the often silent steadiness of women’s work with text
 iles. The choices they made every day about fashion and fabric consumptio
 n and creation drove the course of Revolution just as determinedly as any 
 congress. As southern New England commemorates the 250th anniversary (sem
 iquincentennial) of the War for Independence, it is these local lives dres
 sed in fulled wool or spun silk that continue to inspire creativity, resil
 ience, and empathy in us today. From the mythology of homespun to legends 
 of midnight rides in red cloaks and calashes, the Dirty Blue Shirts share 
 stories of women who waged war on multiple fronts as well as a look at wha
 t they wore as their worlds turn’d upside down.This program is presented
  by costumed historians and includes reproduction clothing pieces & fa
 bric samples as well as a PowerPoint presentation with images of extant or
 iginals.“What did they do, our grandmothers, as they sat spinning all th
 e day? Are we not ourselves the web they wove?”Anonymous toast, Mary Flo
 yd Talmage Chapter DAR, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1910, as quoted in Laurel
  Thatcher Ulrich’s The Age of Homespun: Objects & Stories in the Cre
 ation of an American Myth.Registration required.  Walk ins welcome as spa
 ce allows. 
URL:https://wilton.librarycalendar.com/event/dirty-blue-shirts-web-they-wo
 ve-22155
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