June 2025 Events Newsletter The Revolutionary Rumble Your monthly guide to events commemorating Virginia’s key role in the founding of our nation as we approach America’s 250th birthday. FIND EVENTS NEAR YOU JUNE 1 Isle of Wight County Windsor Castle Walking Tour From its pre-colonial existence to the present day, Windsor Castle tells the fascinating […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 26, 2025 Contact: Mike Frontiero mfrontiero@va250.virginia.gov VA250 Mobile Museum bringing revolutionary history experience to the Northern Neck May 28 RICHMOND, VA – Step back in time and experience Virginia’s central role in the American Revolution when the VA250 Mobile Museum Experience, “Out of Many, One,” visits Kilmarnock. This innovative traveling […]
May 2025 Events Newsletter The Revolutionary Rumble Your monthly guide to events commemorating Virginia’s key role in the founding of our nation as we approach America’s 250th birthday. FIND EVENTS NEAR YOUMAY 1 Virtual Red Hill Rediscovered: Patrick Henry’s Early Years Join Patrick Henry Jolly for a look into the ancestry and childhood of Patrick […]
April 2025 Events Newsletter The Revolutionary Rumble Your monthly guide to events commemorating Virginia’s key role in the founding of our nation as we approach America’s 250th birthday. Two Lights for Tomorrow is a nationwide initiative to commence the celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States of America. The famous ride of Paul […]
March 2025 Events Newsletter The Revolutionary Rumble Your monthly guide to events commemorating Virginia’s key role in the founding of our nation as we approach America’s 250th birthday. Watch a livestream of the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s electrifying “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech March 23rd from St. John’s Church in Richmond […]
Virginia Museum of History & Culture Kicks Off America’s 250th Anniversary with Spring 2025 Exhibition ‘Give Me Liberty’ offers a fresh perspective through iconic artifacts and essential stories of America’s founding RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) will spearhead the United States’ 250th anniversary commemoration with “Give Me Liberty: Virginia […]
FEBRUARY 2025 EVENTS NEWSLETTER The Revolutionary Rumble Your monthly guide to events commemorating Virginia’s key role in the founding of our nation as we approach America’s 250th birthday. FIND EVENTS NEAR YOU ALL MONTH Williamsburg Colonial Williamsburg: Black History Month Join us for Black History Month as we shine an even brighter light on our […]
The American Revolution, a New Film from Ken Burns, to Premiere November 16, 2025 New Six-Part, 12-Hour Series Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and Written by Geoffrey Ward Washington, DC – January 9, 2025 – THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country’s founding struggle and its […]
VA250 Mobile Museum Experience launches with ‘A Salute to Southwest Virginia’ January 18 event also commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Fincastle Resolutions. RICHMOND, VA – Revolution rolls into Roanoke January 18 when Virginia’s new mobile history museum makes its statewide debut at “A Salute to Southwest Virginia: 250th Anniversary of the Fincastle Resolutions,” an […]
Photo taken at the filming of the documentary, Resolved to Live and Die: The Revolutionary Roots of Southwest Virginia at the Willowbrook Jackson/Umberger Homestead Site in Wytheville. A Salute to Southwest Virginia: 250th Anniversary of the Fincastle Resolutions January 18 event marks Fincastle Resolutions, VA250 Mobile Museum Experience, VA250 Fanfare & special exhibits Contact: […]