July Exhibit Honors Women Patriots of the American Revolution

      There is no doubt that tens of thousands of American women served as unsung patriots for the cause of independence during the Revolutionary War by organizing boycotts of British manufactured goods, cooking for the army and militias, nursing war wounds, symbolically burning piles of tea in town squares (seemingly without the need of disguises like their male counterparts), and generally keeping the home fires burning.  However, Fairmount Memorial Association's Fourth of July exhibit "American Heroines: Women of the Revolutionary War" brought to life female patriots of a more robust nature.  Tableaus feature women patriots who planned the Revolution, marched with the Continental Army, manned the ramparts with muskets and cannons, fought the British hand-to-hand with bayonets and swords, scouted for the Revolution on the frontier, out rode Paul Revere as a messenger, and cleverly out spied Nathan Hale at the greatest personal risk.

      The exhibit at the Kirtland Cutter Rock Chapel also displayed period firearms utilized and some of the more interesting flags of the American Revolution, all with historical introductions or narrations by volunteers from the Daughters of the American Revolution.