Revolutionary Women - Part 1

Presented by Kate Hymes and Erin von Holdt

Poet Kate Hymes and historian Erin von Holdt discuss the numerous roles Ulster County women played on both sides of the Revolutionary War. From the homespun cloth movement, protesting taxes, wrangling husbands and sons, keeping the home fires burning, to escaping enslavement and life as prisoners of war–women’s contributions to the war effort were as varied and essential as men’s.