168th Annual Meeting, Lecture, and Reception

Overview

The 168th Annual Lecture, featuring Lisa Minardi, is entitled “Window to Revolution: Pennsylvania Germans and the War for Independence”. This talk reexamines the central role that Pennsylvania Germans played in America's founding. Through rigorous primary source research—including Lutheran pastor Henry Melchior Muhlenberg’s journals—the project will reconstruct the lived experiences of German Americans during the war, including refugees from Philadelphia and New York who sheltered in the crowded Muhlenberg House in Trappe. Minardi will discuss an exceptional array of artifacts, such as fraktur, redware, pewter, furniture, powder horns, long rifles, and other material culture that reflect the experiences of German Americans during the Revolutionary War.

Lisa Minardi is executive director of Historic Trappe, where she oversees three historic houses associated with the Muhlenberg family and the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies.

The Annual Meeting will begin at 2:30 pm, the annual lecture will begin at 3:00 pm, followed by a reception.

Moravian Historical Society's 168th Annual Meeting, Lecture, & Reception will take place at The Moravian Theological Seminary, located at 60 W. Locust St. Bethlehem, Pa. The meeting and lecture will take place in the Saal of the Bahnson Center.

Seating is limited; reservations are highly recommended.