Opening of the
​Thomas Paine New Rochelle Center

Colonial Fair 
Saturday, June 18, 2022
 
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
 
11 am  Ribbon-cutting and wreath-laying near the Thomas Paine Monument and gravesite, corner of Paine and North Avenues
 
Fife and Drum corps
 
Special guests:
Westchester County Executive George Latimer
Mayor Noam Bramson 
City Councilperson Sara Kaye
State Senator Shelley Mayer 
State Assemblyperson Amy Paulin
New Rochelle City Historian Barbara Davis
New Rochelle author and historian, Linda Tarrant-Reid
President of Revolutionary Westchester 250, Constance Kehoe.  

Wreath-laying by Margaret Downey as Madame Marguerite Brazier Bonneville
 
 
ACTIVITIES 11 am - 5 pm

 
Cottage Museum and grounds
 
1:00 pm   18th Century musical demonstration for children
 
1:30 and 3:00 pm   Pirate Potato Sack Game 
  
2:30 and 3:45 pm   Story readings for Juneteenth in the Sophia Brewster Schoolhouse
 
4:15  pm   Fife and Drum Corps
 
4:30 pm   The Crossing and the Ten Crucial Days, excerpts from a musical play about the American Revolution

 
Thomas Paine Memorial Building
 
12:30 pm    Congressman Jamie Raskin - Special Video Message 
 
1:00 pm    Madame Bonneville and Thomas Paine, Joy Masoff, Arizona State University
 
1:30 pm   Thomas Paine’s letter to Thomas Jefferson calling for abolition of slavery, presented by Gary Berton, President, Thomas Paine National Historical Association
 
2 pm    Plans for the Memorial Statue of Thomas Paine in Washington, DC, remarks by Zenos Frudakis, Sculptor
 
3 pm - Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word, a book for young teens, virtual reading by author Sarah Jane Marsh
 
Activities ongoing 11 am-3:30 pm
 
Self-guided tours of the Thomas Paine Cottage Museum with special exhibits, videos on view
 
Colonial “school” and stories in the Sophia Brewster one-room Schoolhouse
 
Thomas Paine Corn Hole Game  
 
Thomas Paine Puzzle Game  
 
Scavenger Hunt following clues about Thomas Paine and Juneteenth
 
Children’s arts and crafts
 
Colonial artisans’ demonstrations, including woodworking and tailoring
 
Tabling by national and local organizations engaged in promoting Thomas Paine’s legacy, historic preservation, freethought, and community service.

MEET THE

Organizers

The Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association was founded on June 28, 1886. It owns and maintains the Thomas Paine Cottage Museum and Sophia Brewster One-Room Schoolhouse; both operating as historic museum sites for over 100 years.

As a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit HNRHA strives to preserve, share and educate on the rich history of the City of New Rochelle, the original Huguenot settlers and founding father, Thomas Paine.

The Cottage Museum is the last standing house in the Northeast that Paine called home and serves as a venue to educate on the Huguenot connection to this land and the ever evolving and changing history of New Rochelle, New York.

HNRHA
Site: https://thomaspainecottage.org

The Thomas Paine National Historical Association was founded in New York City on January 29, 1884. 

It is among the oldest historical associations in the United States and is the single most respected source for accurate information about Thomas Paine.

Its mission is to ensure Paine's rightful place in history as a preeminent founder of the United States of America, and the key political theorist in the age of democratic revolutions around the world.

TPNHA
Site: https://thomaspaine.org

The Thomas Paine Memorial Association is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 2021, as an educational organization dedicated to publicly acknowledge the life and work of Thomas Paine.

TPMA’s mission is to place a statue of Thomas Paine in Washington, DC, as well as in various locations that are of significance to Thomas Paine history. The TPMA Washington, DC statue project is endorsed by Congressman Jamie Raskin and HB 6720 was introduced on February 11, 2022.

TPMA
Site: https://thomaspainememorial.org

“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense