PHILADELPHIA — The Free Quaker Meeting House felt like it was stuck in an 18th-century time warp, except for the video crew and the street noise outside.
Anna Fiscarelli-Mintzer, as Betsy Ross, talks about the day George Washington, Robert Morris and her late husband's uncle George Ross visited to ask her to make a new American flag.
Lane Norris rehearses Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech at the Benstitute in Philadelphia, a training program for historic interpreters and storytellers.
Jackson Pavlik inhabits the persona of Benjamin Franklin at the Benstitute in Philadelphia, where historic interpreters and re-enactors learn to tell stories about Revolutionary-era figures.
Two hundred fifty years ago, Halifax, North Carolina, helped spark the American Revolution. Today, its living history is telling the whole story.
Anna Fiscarelli-Mintzer, as Betsy Ross, talks about the day George Washington, Robert Morris and her late husband's uncle George Ross visited to ask her to make a new American flag.
Lane Norris rehearses Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech at the Benstitute in Philadelphia, a training program for historic interpreters and storytellers.
Jackson Pavlik inhabits the persona of Benjamin Franklin at the Benstitute in Philadelphia, where historic interpreters and re-enactors learn to tell stories about Revolutionary-era figures.
