DAR: Do you have a Revolutionary War Hero in your Family?  

Thursday, March 10, 2022
Waterford Public Library

6:15 p.m. Refreshments
6:45 p.m. Business Meeting
7:00 p.m. Program

Pamela Munro, a member of the Faith Trumbull Chapter of DAR will speak at the March meeting about the organization. The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, NSDAR, is about 125 years old with three overarching areas of work: Patriotism, Historic Preservation, and Education. The organization is open to any woman 18 years or older, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background, who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.

There are 42 DAR chapters now in Connecticut.  The Faith Trumbull Chapter in Norwich has a chapter house and small museum on Rockwell Street. It is unusual for a chapter to have its own properties. This chapter has the Perkins-Rockwell House and the Nathaniel Backus House moved onto the property in the 1960s. Early members were forward thinking women who left endowments to enable continuing use and maintenance.  Faith Robinson married Jonathan Trumbull before he became Colonial Governor of Connecticut and then Governor Trumbull of the State of Connecticut. Faith and her family lived in Lebanon and played an enormous part in making the American Revolution successful.

Pam Munro is the Faith Trumbull Chapter DAR and Museum chapter secretary, treasurer and webmaster.  Pam served for 15 years on Salem Board of Education, then Zoning Board of Appeals, and is currently a Salem Selectman 2021-2025.  She retired after teaching 36 years for Windham Public Schools in special education and elementary grades.  Widowed from Gerald Munro in May after nearly 50 years together, she has one daughter, Kennedy Munro, an international corporate tax attorney.