"What did they do, our grandmothers, as they sat spinning all the day? Are we not ourselves the web they wove?"
----Anonymous toast DAR 1910 Litchfield Chapter

The Seymour Library welcomes the group The Dirty Blue Shirts. The group provides living history talks about what the "everyday" person wore, ate or did in the past to make a living. This program will be presented by costumed historians and will include reproductions of clothing pieces.

The Dirty Blue Shirts talk will be about the never-ending women's work with textiles to clothe themselves and family. The choices they made every day about fashion and fabric consumption and creation drove the course of the Revolution just as determinedly as any Congress. As southern New England commemorates the 250th anniversary of the War for Independence, it is these local lives that continue to inspire creativity, resilience, and empathy in us today.

From the mythology of homespun to legends of midnight rides in red cloaks and calashes, The Dirty Blue Shirts share stories of women who waged war on multiple fronts as well as a look at what they wore as their worlds turned upside down.

Call the Library at 203-888-3903 for more information on this program. Registration is not necessary for this program.