LHS bringing 19th-century historical interpretation to First Fridays

This portrait of Miss Lydia Rodney from 1878 shows the education pioneer after she departed her girls' school in Lewes in 1969 and ventured west to set up the Oregon Episcopal School.Coastal Point • Submitted (Buchtel & Stolte Photographers)
Victorian Friday’s at the Lewes History Museum will depict Lewes-born Lydia Rodney in the first person on May 7. Lewes Historical Society museum associate Debra Regan will be in period costume and portray Rodney as she may have appeared at age 60 in 1896.
Rodney, an education pioneer, operated a girls’ school in the Rodney house in Lewes prior to 1869. She then ventured by ship and train to help her family set up what was to be one of the most prestigious girls’ schools on the Pacific Coast, in Oregon.

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