Revolutionary Connecticut
2006 marks the 225th anniversary of George Washington's successful Yorktown Campaign and the French march from Newport, Rhode Island, through Connecticut, to Yorktown, Virginia. The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum is inviting scholars, educators and artists at this anniversary to reexamine Revolutionary events, the people who made them, and the sites where they happened.
Enterity assisted the museum in designing and building a site to serve as a centralized clearinghouse for information related to Connecticut's revolutionary history — located at revolutionaryct.org.
The site initially focuses on getting information out on the Rochambeau & Revolutionary Connecticut Symposium, scheduled for May of 2006. Additionally the museum is using the site to invite regional and statewide organizations to publish information on relevant events throughout the anniversary period.
Future plans include a comprehensive retrospective of the symposium (transcripts or audio/video from presentations, whitepapers, and so on) as well as resources for scholars, educators and the general public.
To facilitate managing the expected volume of information the site is running on the third and most recent major revision of Enterity's Osiris Content Management System. Osiris provides a platform for future growth while being a low-overhead solution for maintaining the small, initial site. Enterity also provided a number of consulting and creative services, including site planning, information design, user interface and graphic design.
Visit RevolutionaryCT.org
About The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum is one of Connecticuts oldest historic house museums. Founded in 1919 by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Connecticut, the Museums mission is to promote understanding of colonial life and its enduring influence in the lower Connecticut River Valley. Located in the heart of Old Wethersfield, Connecticuts largest historic district, the Museum welcomes approximately 8,000 youth and adults to its 7.84-acre complex every year. Another 25,000+ people use the Museum's resources from remote locations, including its web sites webb-deane-stevens.org and silasdeaneonline.org