Slifer House

Brandyn Charlton to Present Lecture at Slifer House

May 10, 2007

In conjunction with the exhibit Murder, Mayhem and Medicine, the Slifer House Museum will present Brandyn Charlton as their guest speaker on Saturday, May 19 at 2 p.m.

Mr. Charlton will be addressing the conflicts which arose between the Native Americans and white settlers prior to the American Revolution. Sadly, conflict continued long after the Revolutionary War was over and local history books and the Slifer exhibit summarize the Lee and Penn’s Creek Massacres which occurred within the Susquehanna Valley.

Mr. Charlton is the Head Athletic Trainer at Lycoming College by profession, but is a lifelong history fan. He began re-enacting approximately eight years ago and has been involved with many military re-enacting groups including the Maryland Forces, the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment the Grenadier Company, the Augusta Regiment (3rd Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment) Burd’s Company, and the Militia of Augusta County, Virginia. An avid researcher, Charlton is in the process of developing two first person personas. This summer, Charlton will be working at the Landis Valley Museum in Lancaster as an independent contractor interpreter at their 18th century German log farm.

The lecture is the second in a series of lectures which will compliment the exhibit. Season tickets are available at $28 per person and may be obtained by sending a check or money order to the Slifer House, 80 Magnolia Drive, Lewisburg, PA. 17837. Season ticket holders receive preferential seating at the lectures. Individual tickets, sold at the door, will be $6.00 per person.

A bevy of rogues and rascals, charlatans and scoundrels will make their appearances at the Museum- not as visitors, but in the exhibit. The exhibit explores subjects as diverse as murder, kidnappings, phrenology (the study of bumps on top of one’s head), table rapping, and scandals of the 19th century. Many of the references are extracted from local history sources- newspapers, regional history, and court cases. The exhibit will continue through October.

This exhibit and lecture series were made possible in part by a grant from the Union County Commissioners’ Tourism Fund. For information on overnight accommodations, please contact the Susquehanna Valley Visitors’ Bureau at 1-800-525-7320 or www.VISITCentralPA.org.

To learn more about the Slifer House, contact us by e-mail or call (570) 524-2245.