RevCon 2026: Revolutionary War Reenactment at the FDR Library

Saturday, June 13, 10am–4pm | Hyde Park, NY

Revolutionary War Reenactment and History Fair comes to the fields of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park on June 13—a free, family-friendly event timed just three weeks before the country marks its 250th birthday.

Reenactors from the Brigade of the American Revolution will be on hand for cannon and musket demonstrations, tactics discussions, exhibitions of military camp life and uniforms, and question-and-answer sessions about life in Revolutionary America. The accompanying history fair in the Wallace Center at the FDR Library includes historical lectures on the Hudson Valley's specific role in the war. This year's program includes Michael Gabriel's lecture "The Canonization of Richard Montgomery" and Sara Evenson's presentation "From the Colonial Hearth to Your Kitchen."

The Hudson Valley's Revolutionary War history is deeper than most visitors may realize. The Village of Fishkill was home to one of the largest supply depots for the Continental Army during the war, and after the British burning of Kingston in 1777 Poughkeepsie served as New York's state capital until the end of the war. Dutchess County sent more soldiers to the Continental Army per capita than almost any other county in the colonies. Putting all of that history on the grounds of a presidential library whose occupant steered the country through a second existential crisis 165 years later gives the afternoon a certain layered resonance.

The event is free; regular museum admission applies for visitors who want to go inside the library.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4079 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY. Free. More at destinationdutchess.com.