DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS DON COSTUMES TO CELEBRATE WITH THEMED PROMOTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
All Day Activity, MAP KEY #5

HISTORICAL PORTRAYALS IN BALLARD PARK AND CASAGMO
(10:00 AM – 2:00 PM)
Children and adults meet leading characters from The Battle of Ridgefield on a walk through Ballard Park to the battle site at Casagmo.
Presented by The Discovery Center at Ridgefield.
BEGIN IN BALLARD PARK, MAP KEY #1

MILITARY ENCAMPMENT
(10:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
Authentic British & American campsites complete with merchants & demonstrations open to the public.
GOVERNOR STREET SITE, MAP KEY #11

KEELER TAVERN MUSEUM
(10:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
Keeler Tavern Museum comes to life with exhibit of artifacts and archives from the Battle of Ridgefield. Docents will tell of events of April 27, 1777 in the Tavern. “Day before the Battle” will be repeatedly performed in the Tap Room, 12 noon – 2:00 PM. Period craftpersons, will ply their trades in the Garden House and on the lawn. View the British Cannonball, still embedded in a corner post.
THE KEELER TAVERN MUSEUM, MAP KEY #4

PRE-REVOLUTIONARY HOUSE TOUR
(10:00 AM – 3:00 PM)
Tour four homes that witnessed the British incursion of Ridgefield in 1777. Conducted by the Ridgefield Woman’s Club.
FIVE PRIVATE DWELLINGS, ADMISSION $15.00

ANDREA WRIGHT, BOOKS ALIVE! AT SMITH TAVERN (11:00 AM & 1:00 PM)
Storyteller Andrea Wright performs The Red Petticoat, The Midnight Ride of Sybil Luddington, excerpts from My Brother Sam is Dead, and other stories in re-created eighteenth-century tavern setting.
RIDGEFIELD LIBRARY, MAP KEY #2

FIFE, DRUM & CHANTEYMEN IN CONCERT
(2:00 PM – 3:00 PM)
The Ancient Mariners, a Guilford, CT Fife & Drum Corps, display the life of colonial seamen through a rollicking musical good time.
BALLARD PARK GAZEBO, MAP KEY #1

THE HURDY-GURDY FAMILY BAND AT SMITH TAVERN
(3:00 PM & 5:00 PM)
The Hurdy-Gurdy Family Band performs colonial street ballads on period instruments, and chamber shadow theater, for both young and old, in a re-created eighteenth-century tavern setting.
RIDGEFIELD LIBRARY, MAP KEY #2

RIDGEFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY LEMONADE SOCIAL
(10:00 AM – 1:00 PM)
2002 The circa 1740 David Scott House (witness to the Battle of Ridgefield) debuts as the new home of the Historical Society with a free tour for members and non-members alike.
DAVID SCOTT HOUSE, #4 SUNSET LANE, MAP KEY # 7

TALES OF TREASON: TWO ONE-ACT PLAYS
(10:00 AM – 2:00 PM) Schedule Change!

ARNOLD/ FEATURING BOB BROWN
The controversial traitor wrestles with his conscience in the autumn of his years.
Two performances — 10:00 and 12:45

TRAITOR’S WIFE & SPY / FEATURING PENNY AVERY
Arnold’s beautiful young wife, Peggy Shippen, tells all. Or does she?
One Performance only — 11:30 a.m.

THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, MAP KEY #6, ADMISSION FREE

ART & MUSIC AT THE ALDRICH MUSEUM
Fri-Sun from 12 to 5 PM
Free Americana concert by the Ridgefield Chorale in the Sculpture Garden. Saturday at 12:30, 1:30 & 2:30.
ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MAP KEY # 13

OFFICERS’ SOIREE
(2:30 PM – 3:30 PM)
Refreshments and conversation will be shared by American officer re-enactors at Keeler Tavern Museum and their British counterparts at The Elms Inn.
MAP KEYS #4 & 8 RESPECTIVELY

PATRIOT BALL
(8:00 PM – 12 MIDNIGHT)
Fund-Raising gala in colonial costume, complete with live period and contemporary music, Revolutionary libations and light fare.
LOUNSBURY HOUSE, MAP KEY #10
ADMISSION $100 PER PERSON 

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