A Most Revolutionary Watch: A Time Travel Adventure Discussion with Scott Smith and Carol Cadou

July 9, 2026

Event Details

Date: July 9, 2026
Time: 6:30 pm
–7:45 pm

Greenwich Historical Society is excited to present an engaging and enlightening series of educational lectures and presentations exploring the breadth of American history over the course of 250 years. Each month, join the Historical Society for a special presentation covering topics from experts in the fields of fashion, local and national history, archaeology, historic preservation, archives, and more.

Light bites and drinks will be available from 5:30-6:30pm in the lobby of the Vanderbilt Education Center before each presentation begins. A Q&A with the audience will follow all presentations.


What if you could travel back in time to 1776? Greenwich Historical Society is excited to host acclaimed author Scott Smith for an exciting evening delving into his newest novel, A Most Revolutionary Watch: A Time Travel Adventure, which explores the answer to that very question.

Mr. Smith’s acclaimed publication follows protagonist Gary Johnson as he invents a watch that takes him back to 1776 to witness the signing of the Declaration of Independence. What transpires is a journey that explores what life was like 250 years ago at a time before the United States became its own nation. Intersecting between history, action, suspense, and science fiction, the book draws inspiration from the events of the Revolutionary War and the rocky road that paved the way to the new nation of the United States.

Historical Society Executive Director and CEO, Carol Cadou, will join Mr. Smith in dialogue exploring the details of this exciting book and the extensive research on the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence that brought it together.

Copies of A Most Revolutionary Watch will be available for purchase in the museum gift store. An opportunity for book signing with Scott will be available once the presentation concludes.

Speaker Biography

Scott Smith

Author

After a thirty-year career on Wall Street, Scott retired in 2014 to pursue a lifelong passion to write. His cybersecurity novel, Darkness is Coming, won Distinguished Favorite in the Thriller category in the NYC Big Book Award competition. Smith wrote his first two novels, The Fourth Amendment and Darkness Is Coming, under his pen name SM Smith.

In 2017, he began researching the life and times of Nathan Hale, the official hero of his adopted home state of Connecticut. The effort resulted in The Spy and the Seamstress, as well as several in-depth articles published in the prestigious Journal of the American Revolution. Three of Scott's articles were selected for inclusion in the Journal's annual compendium of its best writings.

 

Carol Cadou

Executive Director and CEO of Greenwich Historical Society

Carol Cadou is the Executive Director and CEO of the Greenwich Historical Society.  She has also served as the Executive Director of the National Society of the Colonial Dames in America and the Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO of Winterthur Museum.  Carol spent nineteen years at George Washington’s Mount Vernon—first as Curator and eventually as Senior Vice President for Historic Preservation and Collections.

Prior to Mount Vernon, Carol was the Curator for the Maryland State Art Collection and the Curator of Education at Historic Charleston Foundation.

She is a graduate of Wellesley College, the Sotheby’s American Arts Course, and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture.  In 2019, Carol received her MBA from Ohio University.

Her publications include The Installation of Historic Architecture at Winterthur MuseumThe George Washington Collection: Fine and Decorative Arts at Mount Vernon, and Stewards of Memory: The Past, Present, and Future of Historic Preservation at Mount Vernon. Carol’s most recent publication project, Great American Treasures: Women Preserving History Since 1891, will be on shelves for America’s 250th celebration.

 

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