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An Introduction to Classroom Resources for the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | 6:30-8:00pm ET
Join Fort Ticonderoga and the Vermont 250th Anniversary Commission for this exploration of resources available to use the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution to spark interest in your social studies classroom.
 
While the institutions featured are based in New York and Vermont, these resources are available to educators nationally. Among the featured presentations are representatives from:
Ethan Allen Homestead
Fort Ticonderoga
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
New York State Archives Partnership
Saratoga National Historical Park
Vermont Historical Society
 
The webinar is free, but participants must pre-register. This webinar is offered collaboratively by Fort Ticonderoga’s “Ticonderoga Tuesdays” Teacher Webinars and the Vermont 250th Anniversary Commission.
 
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/learn-and-explore/educators/professional-development/ticonderoga-tuesdays/

A region wide commemoration in Bennington County and nearby NY of the lead-up to America’s First Victory, the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. Beginning on the afternoon of May 2 the public can take a tour of historic sites in Old Bennington including a re-enactment of the meeting of Edward Mott and Ethan Allen to gather the Green Mountain Boys for an expedition to Ticonderoga. On Saturday there will be events throughout the Southshire in Pownal, Bennington, and Shaftsbury at historic sites, which continue Sunday in the Northshire. Happenings at the various sites includes re-enactors, historical information tables, kids activities and games, musket demonstrations, talks and tours, and a passport book for collecting stamps from the various sites with the chance to win a prize. For more information as it is available visit www.bennington250.org

A region wide commemoration in Bennington County and nearby NY of the lead-up to America’s First Victory, the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. Beginning on the afternoon of May 2 the public can take a tour of historic sites in Old Bennington including a re-enactment of the meeting of Edward Mott and Ethan Allen to gather the Green Mountain Boys for an expedition to Ticonderoga. On Saturday there will be events throughout the Southshire in Pownal, Bennington, and Shaftsbury at historic sites, which continue Sunday in the Northshire. Happenings at the various sites includes re-enactors, historical information tables, kids activities and games, musket demonstrations, talks and tours, and a passport book for collecting stamps from the various sites with the chance to win a prize. For more information as it is available visit www.bennington250.org

A region wide commemoration in Bennington County and nearby NY of the lead-up to America’s First Victory, the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. Beginning on the afternoon of May 2 the public can take a tour of historic sites in Old Bennington including a re-enactment of the meeting of Edward Mott and Ethan Allen to gather the Green Mountain Boys for an expedition to Ticonderoga. On Saturday there will be events throughout the Southshire in Pownal, Bennington, and Shaftsbury at historic sites, which continue Sunday in the Northshire. Happenings at the various sites includes re-enactors, historical information tables, kids activities and games, musket demonstrations, talks and tours, and a passport book for collecting stamps from the various sites with the chance to win a prize. For more information as it is available visit www.bennington250.org

To benefit the public, we will celebrate, on Friday, 9 May 2025 what the Green Mountain Boys did on 9 May 1775. 250th anniversary of the opening month of the War for American Independence from Great Britain.

Location: Historic Village Green, Castleton, VT

Time: 6:00PM

Fort Ticonderoga’s Annual History Conference for Educators

“The American Revolution”

May 30, 2025

Fort Ticonderoga’s annual History Conference for Educators on Friday, May 30, 2025, will focus on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution with sessions using five themes to dig deeper into the War for American Independence. The themes are:

• • • Power of Place
    • Revolutionary Possibilities
    • Shaping Nations, Forging Identities
    • Subjects, Citizens, Service
    • Manufacturing Independence

As an example, for the “Power of Place” theme, Staff from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum will share findings from the recent Arnold’s Bay Research Project conducted since 2021. Exploring both underwater and along the shoreline, this project examined the area where part of Benedict Arnold’s fleet from the Battle of Valcour in October 1776 was abandoned and deliberately burned.

This conference is in-person only (no virtual option).

Register online by May 27 at:

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/annual-history-conference-for-educators-2/

Date: May 30, 2025

Details: This is a self-directed driving tour of 20 locations in VT which have 19th century schoolgirl needlework samplers on view.

We will commemorate the first of the four conventions held in Dorset in 1775 and 1776 on July 27, 2025.