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 Fridayâs 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 girlsâ 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 girlsâ schools on the Pacific Coast, in Oregon.
May 2, 2021
William and Jill Hicks play the role of a 19th-century couple for a recent Lewes Historical Society event. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Stolte Photographers, Portrait of Miss Lydia Rodney, Oregon Episcopal School, 1878
Victorian Fridays at the Lewes History Museum will depict Lewes-born Lydia Rodney in the first person at 1 p.m., Friday, 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.