Lewes Lunch and Learn on Early Colonial Family Life set April 15

During the Lewes Lunch and Learn set for 12 p.m., Friday, April 15, at Hotel Rodney, Denise Bridgens will present Early Colonial Family Life. This is the last Lewes Lunch and Learn of the spring season. In the interim summer months, weekly History Happy Hour lectures will take place Friday afternoons.

Bridgens will discuss family life during the 17th and 18th centuries focusing on some of The Lewes Historical Society’s preserved historic buildings including The Early Plank House, The Rabbit’s Ferry House and The Burton Ingram House. Attendees will discover some of the interesting hardships early founding families went through in order to make a life for themselves in a new country and later a new nation.

Bridgens, who will be presenting in historic garb, says, "I am fascinated by how newly arrived families to the New World coped with lack of housing, as well as facing multiple hardships. The first generation of settlers managed to establish a foothold in what became The First Town in the First State. It’s an inspiring thing to look back to not just our founding fathers, but our founding families."

The program is sponsored by Hotel Rodney. For more information or to register, go to www.HistoricLewes.org or call 302-645-7670.