TICKETS

Public $20
Museum Member $15

Join Anne and Ridley Enslow for a musical presentation about spies during the American Revolution! This show covers espionage on both sides of the war, from the Revolution’s earliest days until its dramatic conclusion.

Although the Patriots did not start with the same degree of sophistication as the British, they quickly learned. Dead drops. Invisible inks. Secret codes. Moles and double agents. Incredible courage and outright betrayal. This show has it all—with songs to go along. Nathan Hale was the first spy to be commemorated in song after his death—by no less than Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. On the other side, the British Major John Andre, who collaborated with Benedict Arnold, wrote his own music and poetry.

There are many tales to tell, and they’re full of surprises. James Rivington, the king’s royal printer in New York and seemingly the most loyal of Loyalists, turned out to be not-so-loyal to the Crown after all. And then there was the servant to Lord Cornwallis who turned out to have been sent by the Marquis de Lafayette to spy on his Lordship. The tales go on….

For this presentation Anne Enslow plays the hammered dulcimer, an instrument documented to have been in the American Colonies and Ridley Enslow plays the violin, in this case a violin made in 1776. They both sing and appear in Colonial American costumes. Before each song Anne will provide interesting and entertaining introduction to the piece, setting the context in American history.