Underpinning the sensationalism of battle reports & broadsides is the often silent steadiness of women’s work with textiles. From the mythology of homespun to legends of midnight rides in red cloaks & calashes, costumed historians share stories of the women who waged war on multiple fronts as well as a look at what they wore as their worlds turn’d upside down. This Semiquincentennial fashion & fabric show includes reproduction clothing pieces & cloth samples as well as a PowerPoint presentation with images of extant originals.
The Dirty Blue Shirts is an experiential history collective of living historians, scholars, and artists based from Eastern Connecticut. Its members worked together on the front lines of maritime museums. Now they bring customized, museum quality programming to historic sites throughout New England.
Co-Sponsored with the North Haven Historical Society.