Brown Bag Lunch Lectures
Bring your lunch and join Dr. Allen Viehmeyer and guest lecturers the second Wednesday of each month for a closer look into the SLHC collections, local, and Schwenkfelder history. Lectures are repeated the following Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Unless indicated otherwise, lectures are held in the Heritage Center's Meeting Room on the First Floor.
- Christopher Heydrick: Schwenkfelder Physician
- With Candace Perry
- March 14, 2012, noon
- Repeated Sunday, March 18, 2012 2:00 p.m.
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Christopher Heydrick (1770-1856), descendant of Balthasar Heydrick and Maria Hoffrichter, was perhaps the first Schwenkfelder to study at a university, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1792 with a degree in medicine. In 1819 he moved to Mercer County where he spent the rest of his life. Come and learn more about this man’s interesting life and career.
- The Diaries of David Scholtz and his cousin Christopher Schultz
- With Allen Viehmeyer
- April 11, 2012, noon
- Repeated Sunday, April 15, 2012 2:00 p.m.
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The eye witness accounts by David Sholtze and his cousin Christopher Schultz are intriguing tales of the Atlantic crossings of the 1733 and 1734 Schwenkfelder immigrant groups. This illustrated lecture looks closely at the story behind their diary accounts and highlights other documents related to the voyage.
- Early Upper Montgomery Schools: 1720-1850
- With Bob Wood
- May 9, 2012 noon
- Repeated Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:00 p.m.
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The Pennsylvania state government mandated a system of township schools with its legislation of the Free School Act of 1834. Local schools have already been operating for a hundred years before the advent of "free schools". This illustrated lecture will highlight the location and set up of many schools before the days of the "one-room" schoolhouse.
- Schwenkfelders and Moravians: A Shared Hymn Tradition
- With Allen Viehmeyer
- June 13, 2012 noon
- Repeated Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:00 p.m.
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Moravians and Schwenkfelders had lived side by side, pursued livelihoods, and worshipped in Herrnhut / Berthelsdorf for some eight years until 1734 when the Schwenkfelders left for Pennsylvania. Seven years later Moravians and Schwenkfelders were again living and worshipping within twenty miles of one another in colonial Pennsylvania. Learn how these two groups used and perpetuated the Bohemian Brethren hymnal – its hymn texts, tunes, and their organization – in Saxony and Pennsylvania.