Two special events will take place in Worthington on the same Sunday afternoon, and visitors can attend both in succession:
Conwell Sunday
Sunday, August 18 at 12:30 in the South Worthington Church
Just off Route 112 on Ireland Street, and across from the Sevenars Concerts building.
This annual event run by the South Worthington Church Preservation Association (not affiliated with WHS) opens up this magnificent building for a celebration of those who have contributed to the church since its founding in 1848.
Readings will include an excerpt from Russell H. Conwell’s famous speech Acres of Diamonds, with musical interludes by Christopher James (representing the third generation of the Schrade-James family of concert artists) and Worthington singer Judy Babcock. James will also strike up the pump organ.
Massachusetts at Gettysburg,
Guest speaker Dr. Walter Powell.
Sunday, August 18 at 2:00
In the WHS building ; 6 Williamsburg Road,
By the roundabout and across from the post office and Corners Grocery.
Free admission.
Historian and lecturer Dr. Walter Powell will speak on the Civil War and Massachusetts’ role at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This event is sponsored by the Worthington Library but will take place at the WHS building.
During his 35 years living in Gettysburg, Dr. Powell served as Director of Planning and Historic Preservation for the Borough of Gettysburg, volunteer President of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, and Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg National Military Park. He is most proud of his work as Director of Gettysburg’s Civil War Railroad Station Restoration Project, and as historian for the National Park Service Project team that supervised the restoration and exhibit plan for the David Wills House, where Abraham Lincoln completed the Gettysburg Address. Dr. Powell has written and lectured widely on Gettysburg and the American Civil War. He just completed serving as Interim Director of the Plymouth Antiquarian Society, and remains on its Board of Directors. Before “retiring” in 2017, he was the first Executive Director of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. He resides in Plymouth, MA.