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Life During the Revolution: A Living History Weekend at the Bidwell House
Ticket sales have ended online but tickets can still be purchased in-person on Saturday and Sunday. Payment with cash for in-person tickets is preferred. Thank you!
Experience life during the American Revolution in this weekend long event at the Bidwell House Museum.
As you drive down Art School Road, you will be able to leave the modern world behind and enter a time when fire was used for cooking, everyone lived off the land and muskets were the weapon of choice.
The event will open on Saturday morning at 10 am and there will be talks that day about Martha Washington, Mercy Otis Warren and coffee house culture. In between these talks will be tactical and artillery demonstrations and the camp will close at 4.
On Sunday morning, the event will again begin at 10 am and the day will include talks about sutlers and Baroness Fredrika Reidesel, whose husband fought with the British side. There will also be an afternoon tactical demonstration.
Throughout each day, visitors will be able to walk through the camps and talk to people portraying British and Continental soldiers, learn about midwifery and woman’s issues and talk to the sutlers who supplied the armies.
Click HERE for a full description of each of the programs. Scroll down to see the full schedule for the weekend.
And don’t miss our special preview night on Friday, October 3, with a jump to the 1850s and a visit from “Henry David Thoreau“. Click HERE for tickets to that program, which also includes Saturday and Sunday reenactment tickets.
Located at the end of a mile long dirt road, in the Berkshire upland forest, the Bidwell House Museum is the perfect place to travel back in time to this important part of America’s history.
Single-day or Two-day tickets can be purchased. There will be food available for purchase on site, cash only. Parking will be at the Bidwell House Museum.
This program is supported in part by grants from the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati, The Massachusetts Cultural Council Creative Experiences Program, Greylock Federal Credit Union and Lee Bank, along with the Lee, Monterey, New Marlborough, Otis, Sheffield and Tyringham Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
This project was supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from
the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Additional Program sponsors include Diane Austin and Aaron Nurick, Delight Dodyk and Phebe Kiryk, and Jane and Charlie Johnson
Camp Kitchen materials, courtesy of Leigh Tryon.
