Avon Library To Take Unique Look At Declaration of Independence

Avon Free Public Library

AVON, CT — With the countdown to America's 250th birthday officially underway, the Avon Free Library on Thursday, July 24, is hosting a program that will help folks understand its significance.

The library, located at 281 Country Club Road, Avon, is hosting "The Revolution is Coming," a history lecture series with Dr. Matthew Warshauer, a Central Connecticut State University history professor.

It will take place Thursday, July 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the library's community room.

His talk that day is entitled "The Declaration of Independence: A Minute Reading into Meaning, Memory, & Fantastical Misunderstanding."

It is part of a three-part series of in-person lectures by Warshauer, in preparation for America’s 250th, which is July 4, 2026.

"What did the Declaration actually declare? And why…and to whom? What actually was the point and in the long stretch of history, where does the document and its ideas stack up in our contemporary world?" reads an event announcement.

Warshauer has studied and written extensively on what he calls “the American paradox,” the conflicting ideological beliefs and practices of the United States.

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Avon Library.

For more information and to register for the free program, click on this link.

For more information on Avon's America 250 events, click on this link.