This riveting, narrated recital takes audience members back to America’s colonial period to explore the music, instruments, voices, and lives of enslaved Africans and forgotten patriots. The music will include period instruments, traditional folk songs, patriotic selections,...
Ticket Price: free
Founded in 2020, Black Birders Week is an annual celebration that highlights the intersection of birds, people, and environmental justice.
Ticket Price: Free, but space is limited. Registration required.
As part of the Black Birders Week series celebrating and uplifting Black birders, naturalists, and outdoor enthusiasts, participants will join a park naturalist for a discussion on the history and significance of the movement.
Experience the thrill of being a combat pilot and walk in the footsteps of those who flew from 1909 to 1970. This tour is led by a military historian clad in authentic, Vietnam War-era flight gear.
Ticket Price: $10/adult, $5 children/students with ID Non-Resident: $13/adult, $7 child/student with ID
Health and wellness, fostering community engagement, building trust, and learning diverse perspectives and inclusive history.
Ticket Price: $5 Residents; $7 Non-Residents; Free for Members of Montpelier House Museum
As part of Black Birders Week, this event celebrates and uplifts Black birders, naturalists, and outdoor enthusiasts.
Montpelier is honored to present, in collaboration with the Braxton Institute, Dr. Joanne Braxton’s moving photography of her odyssey to Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Senegal.
Ticket Price: Free, donations are welcome.
This lecture explores the often-overlooked contributions of African American soldiers in the Continental Army and reframes the narrative of the Revolutionary War by emphasizing the courage, sacrifice, and significance of African American citizen-soldiers in shaping America’s first...
Ticket Price: Free
Please join us as we commemorate Juneteenth with stories of freedom seekers from Marietta.
Ticket Price: Free
Celebrate Black Music Month this June at Concord Historic Site! On June 18, join us to celebrate Black Music Month on the green with headlining band Black History.
Ticket Price: Free
Join us on the green in July at Concord Historic Site for Black joy, celebration, and gathering - set to the tune of classic cookout songs and line dances.
Ticket Price: Free
Celebrate African American jazz heritage with local popular musicians at the Marietta Historic Site & Museum. In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, the event will include a traditional African drum performance to honor the roots of American jazz.
Ticket Price: $10/$15
In the decade leading up to American independence, white women took on crucial roles in a series of boycotts, petitions, and protests that allowed them to assert themselves as political actors as never before.
Ticket Price: Free
Most people know something about the American Revolution and about the Founding Fathers. But the full story of the Revolution requires us to look beyond their lives and expand its cast of characters.
Ticket Price: Free
