Solo Performance: "Women of '76" by Rita Parisi of Waterfall Productions, at the Portsmouth Historical Society.
Free & Open to the Public. Donations welcomed.
On June 10th, Portsmouth Historical Society will welcome Rita Parisi for a powerful solo theatrical performance of Women of ’76—a journey into the lives of real women who witnessed, chronicled, and in some cases changed the course of the Revolution.
Audiences will encounter voices rarely heard in the history books:
● Baroness Frederika von Riedesel, whose vivid journals capture the chaos of war
● Prudence Wright, who led a militia of women to capture Tory spies
● Nancy Hart, who faced down British soldiers—and won
● Mary Katharine Goddard, who published the first Declaration bearing the signers’ names
● Mary Gould Almy, whose firsthand accounts document the siege of Newport
Their stories—patriot and loyalist, American and foreign—reveal a deeper, more complex portrait of the American Revolution.
