SATURDAY, December 27 - PATRIOTS WEEK EVENTS TODAY!
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Patriots Week Visitors Center - 1 West State Street, Downstairs Lobby. [December 26 through to December 31] In addition to providing information and directions, some featured elements will include an information area (where you can display your organization’s brochures, postcards, flyers), a children’s area where the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie will be hosting Colonial-era arts activities, a screening area where visitors can watch part of Ken Burns’ American Revolution documentary, and more. More information: Tricia Fagan, NJ State Capital Partnership, 609-477-0887, Tricia...@treas.nj.gov. More Details ALL EVENTS
PATRIOTS WEEK - Make Your Own Tricorn Hat (children’s workshop). [Saturday, December 27, 9:30–11am] Patriots Week Visitors Center, 1 West State Street, Trenton. What is a Tricorn hat? Join arts educators Janis Purcell and Alex Pietsch to learn more about this iconic symbol of the American Revolution; then use materials provided by the Trenton City Museum (Ellarslie) to create and decorate your own Tricorn hat. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Quakers: Choose a Side! [Saturday, December 27, 10am] Trenton Meeting of Friends, 142 East Hanover Street, Trenton. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) believed in the renunciation of war. This tenet was sorely tested with the onset of the American Revolution. How did the Trenton Quakers feel about Philemon Dickinson, a slave-owning Quaker who fought in the Battle of Trenton as a general in the Colonial army? How did they react when the British Dragoons took over their meetinghouse as a barrack? Did they continue to meet during the War? Learn more from lecturer Fred Millner, Ph.D. at the Trenton Meetinghouse, probably the oldest surviving house of worship in Trenton. Refreshments and conversation afterwards at the Meetinghouse. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
Revolutionary Lives: Living the American Experiment Then and Now (exhibition) - Patriots Week. [December 26, 12-2pm; Dec. 27, 10–4pm; Dec. 28, 2:30–4pm; January 3, 4 and 5, 12–2pm] Fellowship Hall, 120 East State Street, Trenton. Fellowship Hall. This compelling exhibit explores the lives of ordinary New Jerseyans during the Revolutionary era – people whose stories reveal a state divided by loyalties, shaped by cultural diversity, and forever changed by war. See the Flier ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Battle of Trenton Reenactment/FIRST BATTLE. [Saturday, December 27, 11am - RAIN, SNOW or SHINE] Warren and Broad Streets (arrive early – battle starts @11 am at the Battle Monument). Immerse yourself in history while reenactors fight through the first battle of Trenton. The battle takes place along Warren and Broad Streets between the Trenton Battle Monument (350 North Warren Street) and Mill Hill Park (corner of Front and Broad Streets). Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - First Presbyterian Site Tour. [Saturday, December 27, 11-12pm] First Presbyterian Church, 120 East State Street, Trenton. Trenton’s First Presbyterian Church was a key site during the British occupation of 1776-77. Join members of 120 East State for a walk through of this National Historic Register site, and learn about its past, present and future. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - The Trouble with Trenton (puppet show). [Saturday, December 27, 12pm] Warren Street Plaza (Corner of Warren & Hanover Streets), Trenton. An interactive, historical look at amazing American history presented by marionettes and rod puppets – with lots of help from the audience! The show includes live music, important props, and plenty of “revolting” action. Rain location: First Presbyterian Church Community Room, 120 E. State St. Presented by Tucker Tales. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Make a Quill Pen & Write Like a Patriot (children’s workshop). [Saturday, December 27, 12-2pm] Patriots Week Visitors Center, 1 West State Street, Trenton. Create your own piece of history! Art educators Pat Proniewski and Linda McCrae help you fashion a quill pen – then see if you can sign your name as well as John Hancock or Abigail Adams! Everyone gets a feather for their cap. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Trenton 1775: A Colonial Town Caught in the Revolution (walking tour). [Saturday, December 27, 12–1:30pm] Trenton Friends Meetinghouse, 142 East Hanover Street, Trenton. In 1775 Trenton was a young community of only 500 souls. The Continental and British armies each brought 1500 fighting men to town, overwhelming Trenton’s small spaces, limited accommodations, and modest supplies of food, water, and wood. Attorney Marc A. McKithen will lead visitors on a walking tour of colonial Trenton, introducing the people who lived here in 1776, their amusements, loyalties, and fears. Tour starts and ends in the historic Trenton Friends Meetinghouse. Refreshments and conversations at the end of the tour at the Meetinghouse. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Black Soldiers & the Many Sides of the Revolution. [Saturday, December 27, 12–1pm and 1:30–2pm (two performances)] First Presbyterian Church (meet in Fellowship Hall), 120 East. State Street, Trenton. Through stories, performance, and song Steve Thomas, a seasoned historical reenactor, “shows and tells” visitors about the lives of Black soldiers and the different experiences of people during the Revolutionary War. (Suited for families and children of all ages.) Mr. Thomas is the founder and director of a national staffing and casting company, Living History Co. that recruits and manages professional historical interpreters and reenactors for film, television, museums, and large-scale events across the country. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - The Stars of 1776. [Saturday, December 27, 12 pm, 1 pm, & 2 pm] New Jersey State Museum Planetarium, 205 West State Street, Trenton. Buy Planetarium tickets at the State Museum. Explore the night sky as it would have been seen in 1776 by George Washington and his troops, then stay for special Planetarium shows. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Building Blocks and History! [Saturday, December 27, 1pm] Trenton Masonic Temple, 100 Barrack Street, Trenton. James Domalewski, historical interpreter at the Old Barracks Museum, leads a LEGO-based overview” of the historic first Battle of Trenton, explaining who was here, where the Battle actually took place, and what happened to the victorious Americans and captured Hessians. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Dedication: Revolutionary War Veterans & Washington-Rochambeau Trail Monument. [Saturday, December 27, 1pm] 120 East State Street, Trenton (gather in parking lot). Join the General Mercer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in dedicating their gift to 120 East State: a marker commemorating the Revolutionary War veterans buried in the churchyard, as well as the March to Yorktown, where the war was won. Presented by the General Mercer Chapter, DAR and 120 East State. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Hogmanay - Scottish Celebration of the New Year. [Saturday, December 27, 2pm] Trent House Grounds (or visitor center if bad weather), 15 Market Street, Trenton. Hogmanay is the traditional celebration of the new year in Scotland and the William Trent House Museum commemorates Trent’s Scottish heritage with a Hogmanay program each year during Trenton’s Patriots Week. See the Flier Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - The Trouble with Trenton (puppet show). [Saturday, December 27, 2pm] Warren Street Plaza (Corner of Warren & Hanover Streets), Trenton. An interactive, historical look at amazing American history presented by marionettes and rod puppets – with lots of help from the audience! The show includes live music, important props, and plenty of “revolting” action. Rain location: First Presbyterian Church Community Room, 120 E. State St. Presented by Tucker Tales. Event Details. ALL EVENTS. (Heritage Event) https://patriotsweek.com/events/ Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - 1st Presbyterian Church Cemetery Tour. [Saturday, December 27, 2pm] First Presbyterian Church (tour begins in Fellowship Hall), 120 East State Street, Trenton. Archeologist Richard Hunter of Hunter Research leads a tour of Trenton’s 1st Presbyterian Church cemetery visiting the graves of American Revolutionary War veterans, including that of Col. Johann Rall, killed in the First Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776. Presented by Hunter Research and 120 East State. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Battle of Trenton Reenactment/ SECOND BATTLE. [Saturday, December 27, 3pm - RAIN, SNOIW or SHINE] The second battle takes place between State Street and Mill Hill Park beginning with a short commemorative ceremony at the 1st Presbyterian Church (120 E State Street). The majority of the reenactment takes place in Mill Hill Park, corner of Front and Broad Streets. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - First Presbyterian Site Tour. [Saturday, December 27, 3:30-4:30pm] First Presbyterian Church, 120 East State Street, Trenton. Trenton’s First Presbyterian Church was a key site during the British occupation of 1776-77. Join members of 120 East State for a walk through of this National Historic Register site, and learn about its past, present and future. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK - Assunpink Firewalk & Reading of Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis. [Saturday, December 27, 4pm] Mill Hill Park, corner of Front and Broad Streets, Trenton. Enjoy live traditional music, warm drinks and cookies on the park’s Iron Bridge, followed by the dramatic lighting of 13 torches along the banks of the historic Assunpink Creek and a dramatic reading of Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis. Event Details ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)
PATRIOTS WEEK PUB CRAWL TRADITION CONTINUES (organized by Taste Trenton, the city’s multi-day restaurant tour). [Saturday, December 27, 5:30pm] Convene at The Lobby Club (17 East State Street) at 5:30PM. The Pub Crawl is a great opportunity to meet new friends, celebrate the holiday season, and kick off the America250 commemoration of the founding of this country - in which Trenton played multiple pivotal roles. Other stops on the tour include: The Station Tapas & Bar, 1911 Smokehouse BBQ, Coopers Riverview, and McManimon’s Monument Pub. See the Flier ALL EVENTS (Heritage Event)