Sunset Cocktail Reception September 22!

Saturday, July 9th, 10am - 4pm

Free Admission
With a special Candlelight Walk through camp at 7pm.
This special event focuses on the life and times of soldiers and civilians during the Civil War. It’s an event full of activities for the whole family.Highlights include: demonstrations in camp cooking, sewing, and other in-camp chores, military maneuvers, and a special “children’s muster,” where children can learn to drill and march like Civil War Soldiers. 

The Parry Mansion Museum

45 S Main Street 

New Hope, PA 

EightCoats, SevenShirts, Fifteen Fathom Wampum:
Early Colonial Settlement and the First Deeds
(1650-1690)
Saturday, July 16th, 2pm - 6pm    *Free Admission
Explore the interconnected relationships between the Dutch, Swedes, English and Algonkian peoples in their respective regions/colonies. Track the adaptation of Native American life to European settlement and trade goods, including the importance and use of wampum through this critical period along the Atlantic and mid-Atlantic regions (south western CT to MD). Understand the magnitude of the earliest American culture clashes through customs of war, adoption, captivity, alliance, friendships and marriages between Natives, Europeans and Africans. Contrast the discrepancies in the concepts of land ownership and usage. Discuss the overshadowed early colonial conflicts: the Peach War, Keift’s War, King Phillip’s War and King William’s War.