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.
March 9, 2021
The image is from the Lewes Historical Society Archives, circa 1929.
The Lewes Historical Society will launch its monthly Lewes Museum Speaker Series virtually Friday, March 12, at 7 p.m.
Connor Lee Graham, the manager of Archival Collections for the Delaware Public Archives, will be presenting a program on Preserving Your Family Treasures. She will discuss how to preserve a family historian s treasures: old photographs, documents and digitized memories. The program will highlight cost-effective steps for a home archivist to preserve family records.
To view this free program, go to historiclewes.org/programs/museum-speaker-series.html, at 7 p.m., and click on the link to join the presentation.
March 9, 2021
The image is from the Lewes Historical Society Archives, circa 1929.
The Lewes Historical Society will launch its monthly Lewes Museum Speaker Series virtually Friday, March 12, at 7 p.m.
Connor Lee Graham, the manager of Archival Collections for the Delaware Public Archives, will be presenting a program on Preserving Your Family Treasures. She will discuss how to preserve a family historian s treasures: old photographs, documents and digitized memories. The program will highlight cost-effective steps for a home archivist to preserve family records.
To view this free program, go to historiclewes.org/programs/museum-speaker-series.html, at 7 p.m., and click on the link to join the presentation.