Celebrate America's 250th Birthday!
Host an in-school creative adventure that makes students curious about little known stories of life and liberty. We work with parents, teachers, administrators, student groups, and community leaders--anyone who wants students to experience history in a new way. Contact us and see how easily this workshop can come to your region.
Upcoming Workshops
April 20, 2026 in Franklin at the
Simpson County Historical Society and History Center.
Thanks to the Rotary Club of Franklin, Franklin Bank & Trust, and the Simpson County Chapter of the DAR.
New workshop: September 2026 in Ashland at Highlands Museum
Thanks Lexington and Hopkinsville for great workshops!
Contact jacqueline@whywrite.org to schedule a program!
America celebrates its 250th birthday this year. We in Central Kentucky started the liberty party early with a 2025 inaugural creative history workshop known as
Revolutionary Girl Dreaming
We start workshops by learning specialized listening skills.
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Then, we interact with unforgettable stories of the countless unrecognized women who kept the fighting men fed, clothed, and armed, on the home front or inside the camps.
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After the stories, come the hands-on creative activities. Singing, designing marketing plans, and painting the original flag with a circle of 13 stars.
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Writing lessons feature poetic skills that can be transferred to any type of writing. We specialize in Free Verse (the most patriotic poetry of all) and the all-new Revku (haikus about the Revolutionary War).
Students participate in a one of the most dramatic American Revolution stories of all -- straight from the heart of Kentucky. Between scenes, students sing a re-imagined chorus from Yankee Doodle:
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Frontier ladies, brave and true,
Hearts so strong and steady,
With grit and grace, they faced the fight,
For freedom, they were ready!
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Young women study a famous sketch with a long name — "The Women of Bryan's Station KY. Supplying the Garrison With Water." This print was published in 1851 and is housed in the Library of Congress.
Our February 2025 program at the Lexington History Museum turned American Revolutionary facts
into non-fiction creative work through
story, song, art, and writing.
The event had so much energy and creativity that we have expanded the workshop for sites all across the Commonwealth. Students learn the stories of
Mary Katharine Goddard
Only woman whose name is on the
Declaration of Independence
Phillis Wheatley
First African American author
of a book of poetry
Two Kettles Together
Native American woman who fed the Patriots
Bryan Station Women & Children
Heroines who saved a Central Kentucky station​​
And what who was that teenage girl who rode
longer and farther than Paul Revere?
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