An Evening In Caroline’s Garden: Readings & Reflections

BETHLEHEM  — Connecticut Landmarks’ Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden will present “Evening in the Garden: Caroline Ferriday’s Stage” on Thursday, July 14, from 6:30 to 8 pm.

Attendees will discover Caroline Ferriday’s passions for the theater, gardening and good works, as Melora Mennesson & Alistair Highet of the Bethlehem-based acting company The Actor’s Nucleus, present a short program of readings and reflections on her life. The program will highlight the brief period when Caroline Ferriday performed roles in long forgotten melodramas and several Shakespearean plays on the New York stage. Wine and  light refreshments will be served.

The Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden embodies the dramatically different passions of two individuals. Bethlehem pastor Rev Joseph Bellamy, a leader of the Great Awakening, the emotional religious revival of the 1740s, built the house around 1754. In 1912, New Yorkers Henry and Eliza Ferriday acquired it as a summer residence. Around 1915, Mrs Ferriday and her daughter, Caroline, designed a formal garden which today features historic-style roses, peonies, and lilacs.

Admission for “Evening in the Garden” is $25 per person ($20 for CTL members and $15 for Landmarks Society and CTL Garden members), and registration required; contact the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden at 203-266-7596 for more information or to register.

The Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden is at 9 Main Street North (Route 61) in Bethlehem.