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!

The event is Thursday October 29 from 5:00-8:00 pm at Sprague Hall, 1 Charles E Jordan Road  in Cape Elizabeth. Tickets are $75/person and can be purchased in advance at Eventbrite (click button below) through Oct 25.

Parking is nearby and free. 

Please join us for this FUN event to support Tate House Museum and discover how local residents negotiated the challenges of the Revolutionary years. You might be surprised to learn how nuanced their perspectives and activities were—even members of the Tate family each reacted quite differently to the need to “pick a side.” Come find out what they thought and did as you immerse yourself in the upheaval of the times!

 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).