Summer Reading at the Alice: Revolutionary Mothers
Tue, Jun 30
|Alice T Miner Museum
June's book club selection, Carol Berkin's Revolutionary Mothers, kicks off a season of America 250-informed reads
Time & Location
Jun 30, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Alice T Miner Museum, 9618 US-9, Chazy, NY 12921, USA
About the event
This June we kick off 2026's Summer Reading at the Alice series, which will focus primarily on revolutionary-era stories and subjects to help us celebrate America 250, with Carol Berkin's Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. Come, chat, snack, and share this great read with us! A few copies will be available at the Alice for loan, and one is available through the CEF library system.
About the book: The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this book, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet Berkin also…