Fall Festival
Bethel College Fall Festival
Bethel College 300 E 27th, North Newton, KS, United StatesFor 50 years, Bethel College has celebrated education, diverse cultural traditions, special foods, fine arts, crafts and friendship at its annual Fall Festival, held each year on an extended weekend in late September or early October. More than 5,000 people come to Newton and the Bethel campus to enjoy an array of activities. All events are […]
“The Dutch Golden Age: Mennonite to the Core” by Lauren Friesen
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States“The Dutch Golden Age: Mennonite to the Core,” an illustrated program by Lauren Friesen ’67, Ph.D. The Dutch Golden Age was an era when the visual arts, medicine, business, education, theater, poetry, theology and publication flourished, with Mennonites deeply engaged in all disciplines. Friesen will cover Mennonite connections and involvement, including Rembrandt (painting), Nicolas Bidloo […]
Monthly Bird Walk—October 8, 2022
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States(Held on the second Saturday to coincide with Bethel College Fall Festival) Our First Saturday Bird Walks depart from the kiosk in the museum parking lot for a mile-and-a-half hike through Chisholm Park and along Sand Creek Trail. Be prepared for some unpaved/steep terrain. Binoculars and a bird book are recommended but not required. Children […]
Fall Festival | “The Oldest Books in the Museum’s Collection” by Mark Jantzen, Bethel College Professor of History
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesKauffman Museum owns a number of cuneiform tablets that are over 4,000 years old. These ancient writings provide insight into a culture that goes back to the very beginnings of organized, urban life in Mesopotamia, the ancient Near East. Hundreds of Bethel students have been introduced to these objects in the class History of Civilization […]
Kauffman Museum Monthly Bird Walk – Fall Fest Edition
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesA 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 required.
Organ Recital – “The Organ at Home”
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesThe 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 ('91), both organ teachers at Bethel, will share about the history of this gem and play music for “The Organ at Home.”
“Land Trusts Leave a Conservation Legacy” – Jerry Jost ’76, Conservation Director, Kansas Land Trust
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesThe 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 land trusts can make on the world.
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 Newton, KS, United StatesThe 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 Oakley which led to the integration of public schools nationwide by order of the United States Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education. Meanwhile […]