Morgan Log House850 Weikel Road, Lansdale, PA 194464Sat. May 4, 202410 am – 4 pm It’s been a while since we had a HANDS ON BREWING CLASS. Come to the Morgan Log House in Lansdale and try your hands at brewing using 18th Century tools and techniques. This is an event where you become the brewer and …
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UPCOMING EVENT — Colonial Brewing Class
Morgan Log House850 Weikel Road, Lansdale, PA 194464Sat. May 4, 202410 am – 4 pm It’s been a while since we had a HANDS ON BREWING CLASS. Come to the Morgan Log House in Lansdale and try your hands at brewing using 18th Century tools and techniques. This is an event where you become the brewer and …
UPCOMING EVENT — Colonial Brewing Class
Morgan Log House850 Weikel Road, Lansdale, PA 194464Sat. May 4, 202410 am – 4 pm It’s been a while since we had a HANDS ON BREWING CLASS. Come to the Morgan Log House in Lansdale and try your hands at brewing using 18th Century tools and techniques. This is an event where you become the brewer and …
UPCOMING EVENT — Colonial Brewing Class
Morgan Log House850 Weikel Road, Lansdale, PA 194464Sat. May 4, 202410 am – 4 pm It’s been a while since we had a HANDS ON BREWING CLASS. Come to the Morgan Log House in Lansdale and try your hands at brewing using 18th Century tools and techniques. This is an event where you become the brewer and …
UPCOMING EVENT — A Talk on Colonial Brewing
Worcester Historical Society2011 Valley Forge RoadLansdale, PA 19490April 14, 20242:00 pm This program will be a little different from our ordinary brewing demos. I am going to not start a fire and we have plenty of beer that has been previously brewed. I am going to give a talk and go deep on some of the significant …
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Bring Documents to your Reenactments!
Today Americans boast a whoppingly deplorable literacy rate of about 86% depending on how you measure literacy. Compare this to Colonial New England where, discounting slaves, women, indentured servants, and indians, in a time when books, newpapers, and magazines were largely unobtainable, the literacy rate was almost 60%*. Today with telephones, television, radio, and various …
If you couldn’t come to Rittenhouse Town on April 8, 2024, you can still invite Dr Rittenhouse to your site for a future eclipse
A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is larger than the Sun’s, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth’s surface, and we won’t see another total eclipse in North America until 2044. A partial solar eclipse is visible over a surrounding region thousands …
TWO “OUT OF THIS WORLD” EVENTS
Join David Rittenhouse as he observes the SOLAR ECLIPSE Richard Wall House1 Wall Park Drive, Elkins Park, PA 19027Sunday, April 7 11:00 – 3:00 and Historic Rittenhouse Town208 Lincoln Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19144Monday, April 81:00 – 4:00 pm There were two total eclipses of the sun visible in the occupied regions of North America during …
UPCOMING EVENT — Observing the Solar Eclipse with David Rittenhouse
April 7, 2024 @ Richard Wall HouseDiscuss Science and see gear1:00 – 4:00pm and April 8, 2024 @ Historic Rittenhouse TownActually SEE THE ECLIPSE! 1:00 – 4:00pm A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun in such a manner that the Moon’s shadow sweeps over Earth’s surface. This shadow consists …
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TWO “OUT OF THIS WORLD” EVENTS
Join David Rittenhouse as he observes the SOLAR ECLIPSE Richard Wall House1 Wall Park Drive, Elkins Park, PA 19027Sunday, April 7 11:00 – 3:00 and Historic Rittenhouse Town208 Lincoln Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19144Monday, April 81:00 – 4:00 pm There were two total eclipses of the sun visible in the occupied regions of North America during …
Michael Carver -- Historical Interpreter/Reenactor 