Thank you to everyone who came out for the Sounds of Liberty Music event and the dramatic presentation by Tom Mosier as Isaac Van Wart on April 29, 2026. The IVW DAR hosted the America250! show at First Presbyterian Church in Van Wert. Gregory Pysh, the church’s music director, researched, planned and presented the program of Revolutionary War Music (and New England-style Singing Schools) featuring three composers of the era: Oliver Holden; Frances Hopkinson (who signed the Declaration of Independence, too); and William Billings. Pysh also sang a solo; “Beneath a Weeping Willow’s Shade” by Hopkinson. Tom Mosier, a Van Wert County Historical Society Trustee, researched, planned and presented a dramatic accounting by Revolutionary War Hero Isaac Van Wart. The audience enjoyed these educational and entertaining moments from a by-gone era. Harriet Schaadt accompanied on piano. Mosier brought Revolutionary War memorabilia and a soldier’s uniform. He even brought replicas of Van Wart’s 75 caliber rifle (used in the capture of British Spy John Andre) and the first Fidelity Medal of Honor awarded by General George Washington for Heroism.