Happy Sunday, friends!
We’ve got not one, but TWO great events scheduled this afternoon, and we hope you can join us for one or both.
2:00 P.M. - Bethel Cemetery Tour Series: Woodland
First up: join us at 2:00 p.m. at Woodland Cemetery (just south of Bethel Village on Rout 5/35 for the first in our four-part Bethel Cemetery Tour Series.
Every Sunday in October, join Museums of the Bethel Historical Society Executive Director Will Chapman at one of Bethel’s historic cemeteries to learn about some of the town’s permanent residents. In keeping with the Independence 250 theme, special attention will be given to Revolutionary War veterans. Later this month we’ll also visit Riverside (October 11), Pine Grove (West Bethel) (October 18), and Middle Intervale (October 25).
5:00 P.M. - “The Painter’s Fire” with Zara Anishanslin
Reading Room, Robinson House
Then, meet us back at the Robinson House (10 Broad Street) at 5:00 p.m. for a special Independence 250 talk by Zara Anishanslin, Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware.
The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. In her 2025 book The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, Zara Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy: Robert Edge Pine, Prince Demah, and Patience Wright. From London to Boston, from Jamaica to Paris, from Bath to Philadelphia, these largely forgotten patriots boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence.