titus moss - The Cheshire Historical Society

A WALK BACK IN TIME:
TITUS MOSS: CHESHIRE FARMER
AND CIVIL WAR SOLDIER
Eleven Scenes from July 1862, Cheshire, Connecticut
SCENE 1.
Cheshire Town Hall
Narrator: Welcome everyone to 1862. Cheshire is a small farming town of about 2000
people. We are standing right in the middle of town. Look around you. Many
of the buildings here today are not yet built, for example this town hall.
Wallingford Road is here with Deacon Brown’s big house right on the
corner. And these houses over there were built for copper miners. (one
sentence about mines)
The annual yearly income is ___ (add other facts).
The Civil War has begun. (ADD more facts about the war thus far)
During our walk this afternoon you will meet and get to know a bit about the
people who were alive then and many of whom lived in these nearby houses
and ---
(seemingly interrupted by someone who bustles through the crowd handing out
invitations to an Independence Day party at the Hitchcock House)
Servant of Mrs. Peter Clark (Lucretia Hitchcock Clark) (or other character) circulates
through the crowd and hands out invitations to a party
______ Capt. and Mrs. Clark are having a party and you’re all invited. Today, this
very afternoon. At their house on the Green. Refreshments will be served.
You there, Titus Moss , did you know your wife is over there now, at the Clarks
Titus Moss (age 34): (a bit startled) Yes, yes, thank you kindly. My daughter Emma is
sick so my good wife Jennette has taken her to Mrs. Clark’s herb garden in
hopes of a cure.
Titus Moss – Walk Back In Time – May 7, 2006 – SCRIPT Page 8