Danbury, CT
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Sybil Ludington
The Ride They Almost Forgot
Sybil Ludington was sixteen years old on the night the British burned Danbury, and what she did — or what tradition says she did — has become one of the Revolution's most debated stories. The broad ou...
Modern Voices
The War They Fought With Barrels and Boots
People come to Danbury expecting a battlefield, and we have to explain that the most important thing that happened here was the destruction of a warehouse. That is not a dramatic story, but it is an e...
