Programs for the 250^th Anniversary of the American Revolution

To schedule any of these programs please contact Margaret Pickett at peggy@picketteducationalresources.com

Living History Programs:

The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Eliza Lucas Pinckney:

Eliza, a time traveler from the 18^th century, gives modern audiences her view of the American Revolution as a woman and the mother of two Continental Army officers. 

Rebecca Brewton Motte—An American Patriot

The audience is invited to eavesdrop on Rebecca Motte as she writes a letter to her grandchildren outlining her experiences during the war.  The children are in London with their father, Thomas Pinckney, the American ambassador to Great Britain, and their mother Betsey Motte Pinckney.

Dorothy Sinkler Richardson Saves the Swamp Fox—Francis Marion

During a commemoration for her deceased husband, General Richard Richardson, Dorothy relates her experience with Banastre Tarleton and his attempt to trap Francis Marion.

The Living History portions of the programs are approximately 25 to 30 minutes and are followed by a question-and-answer session.

Lectures:

The Siege of Fort Motte—"an Archetypal Battle of the Revolution in South Carolina”

Steven D. Smith, Research Professor at the University of South Carolina and former Director of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, has said: “Fort Motte history has everything a student of the war in South Carolina could want—legends, heroes and heroines, 18^th century honor and gallantry, contradictory eyewitness accounts, and despicable injustice.  It also had romance.

Dorothy Sinkler Richardson—The Woman Who Saved Francis Marion’s Life

After the fall of Charleston on May 12, 1780, the Patriot cause in South Carolina seemed doomed.  But during the summer a group of volunteers under the leadership of Francis Marion began to harass the British showing them the fight was not over.  In an attempt to stop his activities, the British tried to lure Marion into a trap. He was saved by the intervention of a woman named Dorothy Sinker Richardson.  Who was this woman and how did she come to be in a position to help Marion?

Lectures are approximately 40 minutes in length followed by a question-and-answer session.