Friday, March 27, 7:30 PM, at Housatonic Valley Regional High School

Historian and author Russell Shorto will speak in conversation with Peter Vermilyea and Rhonan Mokriski to discuss Shorto’s Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives. Revolution Song is this year’s selection for Salisbury READS, an annual collaborative project that encourages the entire community to read a selected book together and engage in discussions and related programs. This program is presented in partnership with the Salisbury Association, the Troutbeck Symposium, and the Scoville Memorial Library, in connection with Salisbury Commemoration 250 and CT 250.

Russell Shorto is the director of the New Amsterdam Project at The New York Historical and senior scholar at the New Netherland Institute. He is the author of eight books of narrative history, including the national bestseller The Island at the Center of the World.

Peter Vermilyea, an award-winning history educator and author, teaches at Housatonic Valley Regional High School and for the University of Connecticut. His next book, Litchfield County in the Revolutionary War, will be published in the Spring of 2026.

Rhonan Mokriski, a co-founder of the Troutbeck Symposium, has been teaching at his alma mater, Salisbury School, since 1996. For his dedication and innovative approach to teaching, Mokriski was named the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Connecticut History Teacher of the Year.