Bethel Historical Society
10/01/2015
The Bethel E-Lark
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Bethel Historical Society
Bethel, CT
Welcome to the magic email lantern of the Bethel Historical Society.  As we've now sorted through the entirety of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, we're moving into the 21st so as to bring you more news, happenings, and images from Bethel's very own museum and time machine.
Annual Ghost Tour - October 30th at 6:30pm

Our annual ghost tour through Bethel, led by storyteller Marty Bishop, is back on Friday October 30th.  

Starting at 6:30pm at the Second Meeting House at 40 Main Street in Bethel, you'll go on a haunted walking tour around downtown.

The evening winds down with cider and donuts.

Reservations required by October 28th - we suggest early reservations as this event fills up every year and there is a limit to the number of participants.  

$10 for BHS members, $12 non-members.  $6 for children 5-12.

To reserve a space, call 203 743 5893.

Open Museum - October 3rd from 12:00-4:00pm

Come visit The Bethel Museum at 40 Main Street in Bethel!  Free Admission - ALL AGES ENCOURAGED!

The Complete GOOD MORNING - new publication from BHS
   
The Bethel Historical Society along with the Art Young Gallery and seraphemera books, announces a new Art Young publication.  AN AMAZING TOME!

For the first time, the entire collection of Art Young's Good Morning, beautifully bound in one place! A hardbound volume of the entire run of Good Morning from 1919 - 1921 plus The Soldier - the one issue of the Art Young Quarterly from 1922 

THE COMPLETE GOOD MORNING!
A 736 page volume for only $75.00

Art Young was the *Dean of American Cartoonists* - the best known political and social satirist the first half of the 20th century. Published in every magazine imaginable - Life, Puck, Judge, The Masses, New Masses, Liberator, Modern Monthly, New Yorker, the list goes on and on. For three years he ran and essentially created Good Morning. The first issue, published May 8th, 1919, billed itself as The New Humorous Weekly . The contents included illustrations by Al Freuh and William Gropper, but mostly the work was from Art s hand. Other contributors over the run included Boardman Robinson, Howard Brubaker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louise Bryant, Robert Minor, Samuel DeWitt, John Nicholas Beffel, Peggy Bacon, Maurice Becker, Reginald Marsh, Hendrik Van Loon, Horace Traubel and many other notables of the day. 

"America forgets too readily its native heroes. I am not referring to Washignton and Jefferson and Lincoln, who are honored anually in our oratory...I refer to Art Young who will be a great man when he has been dead a hundred years. It is rather a pity that both America and Mr. Young should wait that long." - Heywood Broun (1936) 

This is the first time there has been a truly complete bound collection of Good Morning! 

736 pages! 

Cloth covers with gold lettering - old style feel modeled after Art Young s personal bound volume of Good Morning 

+ 37 issues of Good Morning
+ the four page relaunch advertising flier from 1920
+ various 1919 - 1921 advertising ephemera
+ original introduction from the 1968 partial collection as written by Professor Daniel Aaron

For a taste of what is inside
for a free download
of the January 1st 1920 issue of Good Morning!
Images of The Complete Good Morning...








Volunteers Needed...

We're looking for lovers of history, seekers of treasure hunts, neat-niks, organizers, storytellers, and those not afraid to get their hands dirty (or covered with dust and newspaper ink) to help with some archiving and inventory in the museum.

It's also a perfect way for Bethel High School students to fill their community service requirements!
Bethel Historical Society events are sponsored by...


See the new website for The Bethel Museum and the 1842 Second Meeting House:



We look forward to seeing you at our events, and hope that we can share yesterday's news so it becomes tomorrow's stories.

"HISTORY!  Without it you don't exist!"

 

Sincerely,

 

Marc Moorash
Bethel Historical Society
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In This Issue
Halloween Ghost Tour
Open Museum - Oct 3rd
Art Young's Good Morning
Volunteers
Donations
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Donations...
We survive on memberships and the gracious donations of the history lovers in Bethel and beyond.

We're a 501c3 so all donations are tax-deductible.

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We're also looking for donations of goods that are related to Bethel and her history.  If you have items that you'd like to see preserved and displayed for future generations, please contact us.

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