Dr. Scott Gordon of Lehigh University will explore life in the Moravian settlement of Christiansbrunn, established two miles west of Nazareth in 1749. Originally a farming community of mainly single men, in 1757 authorities sent young boys to learn trades such as tailor, shoemaker, and scribe. Find out how the community evolved and eventually disbanded.
Program is free with museum admission or $5 for program only.
About Dr. Gordon: Scott Gordon is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at Lehigh University. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in eighteenth-century transatlantic literature and in literary and cultural theory. He has served as the Director of the First-Year Writing Program (2003-2006), as Director of Lehigh University Press (2006-2011), and as chair of the Department of English (2011-2016). In 2002 Gordon received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and was named a Class of 1961 Professor for the years 2002-2004.
Image: Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA