Second Saturdays at the Bachmann
Second Saturdays, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
The 1753 Bachmann Publick House will be open for tours and special programs on the second Saturday of each month. Join us for tours of this lovely colonial tavern led …
Easton Heritage Day
July 7, 2024, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm, Easton Historic District
Celebrate the spirit of independence and its enduring legacy! A full-day family festival, Heritage Day showcases local history and the heritage of many groups with reenactment events, activities for kids, …
Keefe Colloquium in the Public Humanities at Lafayette College – Working Toward Revolution: Lehigh Valley Contributions to a New Nation
March 23, 2024, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College
The United States of America’s 250th anniversary in 2026 provides an exceptional opportunity to consider the important role of the Lehigh Valley in the nation’s origins and early growth and …
Book Launch Celebration with Jeffrey E. Finegan, Sr.
November 3, 2022, 6:00-8:00 pm, John R. Austen Auditorium
Celebrate the release of the highly anticipated fourth title in the I Knew George Washington Series with local author Jeff Finegan! Jeff will give a short presentation on the series …
In Conversation: Christopher Black
July 28, 2022, 6:00 pm
Join NCHGS in conversation with Christopher Black, a veteran stage actor who spent over a decade as a member of the former Jean Cocteau Classical Repertory in New York. He …
Heritage Day
July 11, 2021, 11:30 am – 6:00 pm, Easton's Heritage Day
Join us to celebrate Easton’s Heritage Day event! Visit the event’s official website at https://heritageday.org/ for full details including programming and schedules. NCHGS is pleased to offer the following: The …
Waiting to Be Heard: Recreating the Forgotten Voices of the Women of the American Revolution
October 12, 2019, 2:00 pm, with historian and author Susan Holloway Scott
In her acclaimed novels, bestselling author and historian Susan Holloway Scott weaves carefully researched fact with written drama to explore the lives and legacies of women who history has silenced, …
Book Talk: The Letters of Mary Penry: A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
November 1, 2018, 6:00 pm
Mary Penry was a Welsh immigrant to Pennsylvania who moved to Bethlehem in 1756 and lived in Moravian communities for the next fifty years. Dr. Scott Paul Gordon of Lehigh …
Easton, 1752: The Founding of a Frontier Village, Colonial Dinner Theater presented by The Bachmann Players, June 2 (SOLD OUT), June 10 (SOLD OUT), June 18, 2017
TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Step back in time and join William Parsons (the father of Easton) and his friend Benjamin Franklin, as well as other Easton notables, in establishing a …
Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic, May 20, 2017, 1:00 pm
Follow the epic journey made by one of the 14 hand-drafted originals of the Bill of Rights. “Stolen” by a Union army infantryman rifling through a Raleigh, North Carolina statehouse looking for …