July 2020
Music in the Palisades Concert Series
Enjoy free live music, hot dogs, ice cream, yard games, and hay rides on Sunday afternoons: May 31, June 28, July 26, and August 30th. Open Mic Pre-Show from 4:00-5:00 PM. Concert Schedule: May 31: Jennifer Curtis Violin June 28: Swing On! July 26: West End Mambo August 30: Soultriii
Find out more »August 2020
Music in the Palisades Concert Series
Enjoy free live music, hot dogs, ice cream, yard games, and hay rides on Sunday afternoons: May 31, June 28, July 26, and August 30th. Open Mic Pre-Show from 4:00-5:00 PM. Concert Schedule: May 31: Jennifer Curtis Violin June 28: Swing On! July 26: West End Mambo August 30: Soultriii
Find out more »September 2020
Hands-On History Day
Experience the tools and trades of colonial Bethabara. Try your hand at indigo dyeing, woodworking, and blacksmithing.
Find out more »October 2020
Apple Festival
Visit local orchards and food trucks while savoring culinary treats celebrating the apple. Shop our craft vendor market, enjoy live music, and experience colonial demonstrations. RAIN DATE: Sunday, October 25th.
Find out more »Boo! at Bethabara Park
Start your trick-or-treating at Bethabara this year. Candy, hay wagon rides, lighted jack-o-lanterns, haunted tours, and more. Wear your costume and join in on the fun!
Find out more »December 2020
Moravian Christmas Lovefeast
Start the holiday season at Bethabara with a Moravian Lovefeast service. Children’s Love- feast starts at 2 p.m. Traditional Lovefeast starts at 5 p.m. Enjoy musical performances and colonial Christmas treats between services. Don’t forget to shop for unique gifts in our Visitor Center before you leave!
Find out more »![#PagesFromThePast As the Revolutionary War drew to a close, the government declared July 4th to be a Peace Festival. The townspeople of Bethabara made preparations for the day and invited neighbors to join.
Bethabara Diary, July 4, 1783: “The Day of Thanksgiving for Peace was announced early in the morning by the blowing of the wind instruments. At ten o’clock there was a service...Some of our neighbors were present. At two in the afternoon the congregation, including the children and some of the neighbors, had a happy lovefeast, during which the Ode composed in Salem was sung. In the evening all the houses were illuminated, the bell was rung, and the congregation assembled before the Gemein Haus. Singing began with the hymn: “Oh Thou, Whose goodness no tongue can tell, and the congregation marched in procession between the two Brothers Houses and the other houses to the tavern, along the road by Schaub’s [The Potter’s House] and back by Stach’s to the Gemein Haus, full of praise and thanksgiving.” (Records of the Moravians in North Carolina, Vol. IV, pg. 1864) #bethabara #wsnc #moravianhistory #nchistoricsites #thisdayinhistory #july4th
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