A family favorite returns to the Webb Deane Stevens Museum! 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, children’s colonial games, traditional craft-making, speak with a surgeon, musket demonstrations, camp tours with the 5th Connecticut Regiment, and so much more.

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

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

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

Schedule Of Events:

10:30 am - Musket and drill demonstration
11:00 am - Children’s wooden musket drill
11:30 am - Reading of “Paul Revere’s Ride”
12:00 pm - Midday nooning
1:00 pm - Demonstrations of 18th-Century battle tactics, including musket firing and bayonet practice
2:00 pm - Canon firing demonstration
2:30 pm - Reading of “Paul Revere’s Ride”
4:00 pm - Camp Closes