Through Education & Access

Patriots’ Paths

Patriots’ Paths, a multi-year outreach program, helps communities within the Heritage Area recover the lost stories of how their towns made history immediately before, during and in the wake of the American Revolution.

To date more than twenty teams of citizen researchers, working with award-winning historian Mary Fuhrer as a guide, have researched primary source evidence. Their goal is to uncover how real people responded to and participated in this pivotal period of American history. Farmers, widows, Loyalists, spies, local merchants, youth – all had a view and a voice in the growing struggle to articulate individual rights and liberties.

In 2014, these stories were woven into a dramatic script that presented the moving story of how individual communities — each in its own way, yet all to the same end — came to embrace and prepare for Revolution. Presented in a series of free public programs throughout the heritage area, the presentation has been modified and piloted in several area high schools and is being adapted for additional use.