“We The People” are invited to this presentation to learn the history of printing The American Revolution, and to engage in a conversation around an old printing press, pull a broadside, and imagine what The Next Revolution could be.
Event Details:
Date and Time: Saturday, March 14, 2025 | 2:00–3:30 PM
Location: Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln Street, Essex Junction, VT
Audience: Recommended for youth in grades 5 and up AND Adults!
On March 14th at 2 pm, John Vincent, a retired police officer, poet, letterpress printer, and director of A Revolutionary Press, a 501c3 nonprofit and volunteer run collective of artists in service to the Common Good, will be speaking at Brownell Library about the role the printing press played in the American Revolution. Curious minds in grades 5 and up and adults who love history, ideas, and getting their hands inky are invited to engage in a conversation around an old printing press, pull a broadside, and imagine what The Next Revolution could be.
When the handwritten Declaration of Independence was delivered to the local print shop the evening of July 4, 1776, it was “mass produced” on the printing press overnight. But only after it was entirely set by hand, one l-e-t-t-e-r at a time and locked up in a press bed to be pulled by hand, one copy at a time.
Similar to the deliberate and intentional methodologies which the earlier revolutionaries employed to foment and print their Revolution of 1776, are those utilized contemporarily at A Revolutionary Press, the print shop in New Haven, Vermont.
At this presentation you will learn that the mission statement of A Revolutionary Press, inspired by the Declaration of Independence, directs us in our efforts to bring about an entirely distinct Revolution for the present and the future, as we listen to, and print some of today’s lesser known radical and revolutionary visionaries.
We the People are invited. Come be part of the story.
This talk is free and open to the public. For more information, contact River West at river@brownelllibrary.org.
A Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted is a Vermont Humanities program hosted by Brownell Library. (Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the NEH, Vermont Humanities, or Brownell Library.)