A family favorite returns to the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Saturday, May 24! Travel back in time and experience our Annual Revolutionary War Encampment, presented by the 5th Connecticut Regiment. Join us from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a fun, educational immersion in the Colonial era, including period music, open hearth cooking demonstrations, traditional craft-making, speak with a surgeon, musket demonstrations, camp tours with the 5th Connecticut Regiment, and so much more.

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Demonstrations throughout the day will include:

Colonial music
Surgeon’s table
Open hearth cooking and food
Flag displays and history programs
Weaving and sewing
Soldier’s tent and display of equipment
Colonial clothing
Butter churning
Camp tours and information about the 5th Connecticut Regiment and its history

10:30 a.m. Musket and drill demonstration

11:00 a.m. Children’s march with wooden muskets

1:00 p.m. Battle skirmish with invading British Marines

1:30 p.m. Canon firing demonstration

The free festivities will begin on the Museum grounds immediately following the Town of Wethersfield Memorial Day Parade

Free For All!