History Comes Alive When You Get off I-95

The Delaware Humanities Forum, in cooperation with the We the People Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is proud to support The National Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (W3R) for its:

Revolutionary Weekend

Celebrating the 225th Anniversary of the March of the Allied French & American troops of the American Revolution through Northern Delaware

Thursday, September 28 - Sunday, October 1, 2006

In September 1781, Delaware's residents supported more than 1,200 soldiers and draft animals who had been walking more than 620 miles from Rhode Island to Virginia as they entered Delaware, coming by row barges and marching slowly down Philadelphia Pike into Wilmington, Newport Pike through Newport and Stanton, and Old Baltimore Pike from historic Christiana, past Cooch's Bridge to Iron Hill.

Click here to read the entire story, including the triumphant return back through Delaware.

Our Revolutionary Weekend is one of nine consecutive celebrations that began in Newport, Rhode Island in July 2005 and will end with Yorktown Days, October 19 - 22, 2006.

Highlights include:

• Self-guided auto tour through New Castle County of the Historic Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route
• Scholarly symposium on the role of 18th century black patriots
• Ceremony with the French ambassador and Governor of Delaware at Cooch's Bridge
• Gala premier of new musical, Billy Lee's Washington, by Evelyn Swensson
• Chautauqua tent show featuring reenactments of 18th century historical figures
• 18th century market at Greenbank Mill

Funded by the Delaware Humanities Forum with grants from We the People: National Endowment for the Humanities

• Click here for a full schedule of events, locations, and directions
• Click here to "Ride the Revolutionary Route on a Self-guided Auto Tour"
• Click here for more information on attending the symposium
• Click here for more information on the new musical, Billy Lee's Washington
• Click here to learn about a Chautauqua tent show and find out who is appearing
• Click here to learn more about the 18th century market at Greenbank Mill

The Delaware Humanities Forum offers a wealth of educational presentations highlighting the American Revolutionary War under our Visiting Scholars and Speakers Bureau Program.

Click on these links to learn about our Speakers Bureau and Visiting Scholars Program to learn more about membership and program reservation.

Topics of Interest

• American Patriotic Music from Revolution to 9/11
• The Colonial American home
• Delaware Women of the Young Republic
• Have a Ball! 18th Century Dancing
• Life & Times of Caesar Rodney
• Life & Times of George Washington
• Life & Times of Martha Washington
• Life & Times of Phyllis Wheatley
• Meet a Revolutionary Soldier
• The Muzzleloading Pennsylvania Rifle
• Rediscovering America: Your Own Family Tree
• Tempest in Teapot
• Thomas Jefferson: Gentleman Architect

"Revolution was affected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people . . . This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution."
John Adams, 1818