• “Cato in the Revolution: Spies, Slavery, Church, and Chocolate” (in-person)

    Community Room 2 (divided room) 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, United States

    “Cato in the Revolution: Spies, Slavery, Church, and Chocolate”  Join historian and author Claire Bellerjeau as she shares her exciting new discoveries about Cato, an enslaved Black man who aided the Patriot spy and tailor Hercules Mulligan during the Revolutionary War. Cato’s story, once mere legend, comes to life with details of an assassination plot against Washington, […]

  • “Remember Liss: A New American Founding Figure” (in-person)

    Community Room 2 (divided room) 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, United States

    Join historian and author Claire Bellerjeau for a one-hour program as she discusses the discovery of a new founding figure named Elizabeth, or Liss. Liss was enslaved by the Townsend family of Oyster Bay, New York, whose most famous member was Robert Townsend aka “Culper, Jr.”, George Washington’s lead spy in Manhattan during the Revolutionary […]