Join us and historian Michael Jesberger for a waffle breakfast, presentation on the Revolution as it happened here in our backyards, and a hot catered lunch. Details to follow. Enjoy a waffle breakfast, lecture on the the Revolution in Bucks & Montgomery counties, and a hot catered lunch, followed by a tour of the Keith […]
Join us and our speakers from the Kennett Underground Railroad Center to learn about abolitionists like Thomas Garrett, Isaac and Dinah Mendenhall, John and Hannah Cox, and Dr. Bartholomew Fussell — all of whom risked much for the cause of freedom. Their narratives feature accounts of freedom seekers who were often pursued by slave catchers, […]
History’s Mysteries: What They Didn’t Teach You in High School About the Revolutionary War and Colonial Era Many people love to read historical fiction. But, this is historical reality. Legends and lore have become a significant part of American history of the Revolutionary War and the colonial era. Among others, historical reality seeks to answer: “Who […]
Join historic interpreter Chris Flynn as she presents Alice Paul. Dressed in character, Flynn portrays Alice as she fights for the right for women to vote. Alice Paul was a wealthy, well-educated, practicing Quaker, called to public service by her faith. She is considered the architect of the writing and passage of the 19th Amendment […]
Join us as author Wendy Long Stanley presents the subject of her newest book – Betsy Ross. The audience will travel through the well-known streets of historic Philadelphia, down some of its seedier alleyways, into taverns, workrooms, residences, and houses of worship as Stanley paints a picture of Betsy’s environment during the few years leading […]
In a terrible time of war, one woman must fight for what she holds dear… Pennsylvania, 1777: War rages on in the American Colonies. With her husband off in the fight, Clara Fletcher is trying to survive on her Chester County farm. Danger lurks near and far. The future is uncertain. Then one day a […]
Poor Mary Mallon, as misunderstood today as she was a hundred years ago. Notoriously known as “Typhoid Mary,” she was a seemingly healthy, determined woman who immigrated from Ireland at a time when just being Irish was enough to arouse suspicion and social rejection. Being female and being poor added to her problems. Through no […]
December 5, 1921. Two trains. One track. 27 dead. 70 injured. The crash in Bryn Athyn of two opposing trains of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway was one of the most catastrophic of its time, yet largely unknown today. Many factors contributed to the disaster that unfolded between Woodmont and Paper Mill Stations in Upper […]
Three hundred years ago Hannah Penn was grieving the loss of her beloved husband William and embroiled in a bitter family fight with her stepson over who would inherit and run the fledgling colony of Pennsylvania. Blessed with a formidable business sense and a strong will, find out how Hannah Penn saved Pennsylvania. Join Doug […]
Early in the morning on July 11, 1804 two men met on the dueling grounds of Weehawken, New Jersey. When the duel was over one man was dead, the other a fugitive. As school children we all learned about that fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, but do we really know what went […]