Events - America 250 Celebration
POMFRET HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO HOST PROGRAM ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY WAR ARTIST, JOHN TRUMBULL .
Saturday, June 6, 2026
3:00PM
At the Old Town House,
11 Townhouse Drive, Pomfret Center, CT
Pomfret Historical Society will host Painting the Revolution: John Trumbull’s Revolutionary Art. Historian Bev York will take the audience on a journey through the Revolutionary War from the perspective of the artist John Trumbull.
More America 250 upcoming events:
DATE | TIME | EVENT | PLACE | DESCRIPTION |
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4/11/2026 | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Open House 3:00 pm Program | ART OPENING: Laura Tedeschi
PHS OPEN HOUSE Refreshments | OLD TOWN HOUSE
| Laura Tedeschi’s paintings in Afterlife are inspired by gravestone carvings found in colonial and revolutionary period burial grounds. Program: Local 18th century Gravestone Carvers Featuring the Richard and Libbeus Kimball who fought with the Pomfret's 11th Regiment.
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4/20/2026 | 6:30 pm
7:30 pm | Annual Meeting
Program: The Lexington Alarm Rider | OLD TOWN HOUSE
| The Lexington Alarm Rider Dayne Rugh will talk about the Rider who brought the Lexington Alarm to Israel Putnam. TLGV Co-sponsor |
5/2/2026 | 3:00 pm | Hidden Patriots Vicki Welch | OLD TOWN HOUSE
| Genealogist and author Vicki Welch will present her latest research on local Black and Native American soldiers in the Revolutionary War. |
5/24/2026 | 3:00 pm | Sunday Concert Series Music of the American Revolution
| OLD TOWN HOUSE | Tom Vaughn Music from 1780 - 1840 |
6/6/2026 | 3:00 pm | Painting the Revolution Bev York | OLD TOWN HOUSE
| Program about the paintings of John Trumbull which recorded the battles of the Revolutionary War
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6/28/2026 | 3:00 pm | Sunday Concert Series Music of the Revolution | OLD TOWN HOUSE | Rick Spencer and Dawn Indermuehle From the Colonies to Independence: Songs of America’s Transition." |
8/1/2026 | 3:00 pm | Hidden Patriots from the Revolution to Tuskegee Airman Bertram Wilson | OLD TOWN HOUSE
| Former Legislator Hon. Pat Wilson Pheanious will share how the Witness Stones Project unveiled the legacy of her family in the military from the Revolutionary War to the Tuskegee Airmen |
8/23/2026 | 3:00 pm | Sunday Concert Series Music of the American Revolution | OLD TOWN HOUSE | Richard Donahue What a Glorious Crash They Made: Music of Connecticut’s Revolution
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9/5/2026 | 3:00 pm | Doctoring the Soldiery Dan Newman | OLD TOWN HOUSE
| Reenactor, Dan Newman will portray a physician on the battlefield in the Revolutionary War. |
10/2/2026 | 7:00 pm | Concert reception for reenactors | Vanilla Bean Café | Rick Spencer and Dawn Inermuehle Revolutionary Tavern Music: Sea Shanties, Ballads, and Drinking Songs |
10/3 to 10/4/2026 | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | REVOLUTIONARY POMFRET In Historic Abington Village | Pomfret Recreation Park
| Revolutionary War Reenactment and Living History Event Celebrating Local History Long Ago But Not So Far Away: Exploring the Revolutionary War Through a Local Lens |