Events

  Exactly one-hundred years before the Declaration of Independence, a group of rebels marched on Virginia’s capital and burned it to the ground in an attempt to depose a government they saw as elitist. Though the rebellion would fizzle after the death of its charismatic leader, Nathaniel Bacon, its impact would be felt in the […]

Torchbearer: A Story of Bacon’s Rebellion is a new original musical based on the events that swept Virginia from 1675 to 1677. In a colony haunted by the shadow of regicide, old grudges and new tensions build to a conflagration that threatens everyone and everything it touches. Torchbearer examines the motives and fates of a […]

Torchbearer: A Story of Bacon’s Rebellion is a new original musical based on the events that swept Virginia from 1675 to 1677. In a colony haunted by the shadow of regicide, old grudges and new tensions build to a conflagration that threatens everyone and everything it touches. Torchbearer examines the motives and fates of a […]

Torchbearer: A Story of Bacon’s Rebellion is a new original musical based on the events that swept Virginia from 1675 to 1677. In a colony haunted by the shadow of regicide, old grudges and new tensions build to a conflagration that threatens everyone and everything it touches. Torchbearer examines the motives and fates of a […]

Join us at Bacon’s Castle for our annual Seventeenth Century Day! This year we will be joined by our Virginia Indian Tribal Partners – the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, the Rappahannock Indian Tribe, and the Nottoway Indian Tribe – and we will also host the Library of Virginia’s LVA On the Go van. The day’s events […]