Immanuel on the Green Bicentennial Talks and Tours

30 Market St,New Castle DE 19720

08 November, 2022

Description

Please join Immanuel on the Green, and Historic New Castle, for a multi-day celebration of both our history and our future. The schedule is as follows: All talks held at the Arsenal 9:30am-9:45am - Welcome Remarks (Father Keene) 9:45am-10:00am - Land Acknowledgment (Andrea Anderson, University of Delaware) 10:00am-11:00am - The Expansion of Immanuel Church (Barksdale Maynard, Independent Scholar) 11:00am-11:15am - Break 11:15am-11:45am - Guided tour of Immanuel Church and churchyard 12:00pm-1:00pm - Lunch in the Academy Building 1:00pm-1:15pm - Bell ringing 1:15pm-2:15pm - The Social Context of New Castle in the 1820s (Deborah Harper, Delaware Historical Society) 2:15pm-2:30pm - Break 2:30pm-3:15pm - Walking Tour from the Arsenal to the Strand to the Read House (Mike Connolly, New Castle Historical Society; Miriam Foltz, New Castle Presbyterian Church; Brenton Grom, Read House) Sunday, October 30th, 4:00 pm (no registration necessary) Bishop Kevin Brown will preside at this service of music and thanksgiving. At the service, a new anthem will be premiered, a commissioned piece written by Dr. David Hurd, composer, concert organist and choral director who served as professor of Sacred Music and Director of Chael Music at the General Theological Seminary in New York. The piece is based on a passage from the Song of Solomon and is dedicated to Jack Warren Burnam, retired organist and choirmaster of Immanuel Church on the Green