Independence Day Jubilee
Morven Museum & Garden
Friday, July 4, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In 1783, delegates to Congress celebrated Independence Day at Morven. On the 225th anniversary of America’s most important national holiday, Morven once again invites young and old to its historic grounds for family fun and revelry. Programs include:
• Mrs. Stockton Hosts Congress, a play by The American Historical Theatre
• Historical Demonstrations by the Past Masters
• Colonial Carriage Rides
• Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
• Story Teller/Master of Ceremonies – Rivka Willick
• Tours of the history exhibition Picturing Princeton 1783: The Nation’s Capital
• Refreshments in the 1783 Tea Room, with a presentation by Stacy Roth on 18th-century teas and customs
Free admission and parking. For more information visit www.morven.org or call 609-924-8144, ext. 106.
Independence Day Programs
Princeton Battlefield & Thomas Clarke House
July 4, 5, & 6
Princeton Battlefield State Park and the Thomas Clarke House are the site of three days of historic re-enactments, interpretive educational demonstrations, a military encampment, and a newly-written play.
On July 4, costumed interpreters give interactive educational demonstrations at a series of sites around the Clarke House of military life before and after the Battle of Princeton.
On July 5, the play Ghosts of the Battlefield by Laura Crockett brings to life the ghosts of people who fought during the battle and tells their stories.
From July 5 to 6, a military encampment recreates the military life and action of the American Revolution.
For more information visit www.saveprincetonbattlefield.org or call 609-921-0074.
July 4, 5, 6 (Dinner)
Yankee Doodle Tap Room, Nassau Inn
The Yankee Doodle Tap Room in the historic Nassau Inn invites you to enjoy a special 1783 Revolutionary 18th-Century Three-Course Dinner Menu for $17.83 per person. The Tap Room will also feature a specialty rum drink – The Continental. For more information and to make reservations, call 609-688-2600 or visit www.nassauinn.com.
Fighting for Independence While Decorating in the English Taste: Furniture in Washington's Revolutionary America.
Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ
Saturday, July 12, 2 p.m.
Matthew Thurlow, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses how furnishings can impart knowledge of their time to us in the way they were constructed, their style, their individualized use and social history. Learn how to listen to these silent witnesses of the past, with an emphasis on late-18th century furnishings of the type found at Rockingham. Sponsored by the Rockingham Association for Rockingham State Historic Site. For more information visit www.rockingham.net.
- 1783 exhibition Picturing Princeton (Morven)
- Drumthwacket tours
- 1783 walking tours (Historical Society of Princeton)
- 1783 teas (Morven)
- Princeton University tours
- School programs (Morven)
- Princeton Public Library programs
- Historic science experiment
- Westminster Choir College summer music
- Princeton University Art Museum
