America celebrates its 250th birthday in 2026. We in Central Kentucky started the liberty party early with the inaugural seminar of
Revolutionary Girl Dreaming
Seventeen Women Patriots
They are buried at the Bethel Presbyterian Church cemetery in Fayette County, Kentucky. They represent the countless unrecognized women who kept the fighting men fed, clothed, and armed, as well as maintaining the home front.
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Activities included writing notes to the Revolutionary heroines, making a collage of their images with key thoughts, and writing poetry.
Poetry lessons focused on literary techniques and poetic forms, such as Free Verse (the most patriotic poetry of all) and the all-new Revku (a haiku about the Revolutionary War).
Students also sang a new version of Yankee Doodle which included this verse and chorus:
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Kentucky women held the line,
Through trials, storms, and thunder,
They tilled the fields and kept the forts,
While men fought over yonder.
Frontier ladies, brave and true,
Hearts so strong and steady,
With grit and grace, they faced the fight,
For freedom, they were ready!
For details on bringing this program to your group or school, contact Why We Write Executive Director Jacqueline Hamilton at jacqueline@whywrite.org
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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.
The February 2025 program at the Lexington History Museum turned American Revolutionary facts
into non-fiction creative work through
story, song, art, and writing.
Program leaders were from Why We Write and the Lexington DAR Chapter. The seminar explored Revolutionary women including:
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Mary Katharine Goddard
The only woman whose name is on the
Declaration of Independence
Phyllis Wheatley
The first African American author
of a book of poetry
Prudence Wright
The organizer of the “minute women”
Bryan Station Women & Children
Heroines who saved a Central Kentucky station
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