Fall Festival
Kauffman Museum Monthly Bird Walk – Fall Fest Edition
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North NewtonA local birding expert will lead a one-hour, 1.5-mile walk along Bethel’s Sand Creek Trail looking and listening for birds. Trail terrain is uneven. No cost. Binoculars recommended but not […]
Organ Recital – “The Organ at Home”
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North NewtonThe Teschemacher cabinet organ has been part of the same Mennonite family since it was purchased by Johannes Deknatel in the late 1750s. Rosi Penner Kaufman ('85) and Donna Hetrick […]
“Land Trusts Leave a Conservation Legacy” – Jerry Jost ’76, Conservation Director, Kansas Land Trust
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North NewtonThe Kansas Land Trust addresses climate change through habitat restoration, public access to protected areas and agricultural practices that sequester carbon in regenerative ecosystems. Jerry Jost '76 discusses the impact […]
Fall Fest Program: “Hidden Connections: The Bethel Bell and Brown vs. Board in the Supreme Court,” Levi Goossen ’59
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North NewtonThe Bethel bell once rang in the only known integrated school in Kansas, in Prairie Bell School in Thomas County. Later the children from rural Thomas County attended school in […]