The evening begins with a wine and beer reception (at 5 pm) followed by a dinner buffet (at 6 pm) and an engaging program focused on our 250th anniversary summer exhibit "To Be or Not to Be: American or British?" Dressed performers will debate the perspectives of Stroudwater and other local Patriots and Loyalists with audience participation!

Tickets are $75/person and can be purchased in advance at Eventbrite (click button below) or at the Means House Visitors Center during open hours through Oct 10 with no ticketing fees.

Image credits: Portrait of James Means by an unidentified artist, ca. 1790. Tate House Collections, Gift of James F. Mason, great grandson of James Means, 1952.8.1 (left). Portrait of Thomas Flucker by John Singleton Copley, 1770-1771. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bequest of Lucy Flucker Thatcher, 1855.1 (right).