Bethel Museum - Open Saturday 2pm - 4pm - Free Admission

On Saturday September 14th from 2:00pm to 4:00pm the Bethel Museum will open its 171 (and one-third) year old doors, coax entrance to all passers-by with but an ever crackling announcement spinning off from a victrola, asking for little in return but a smile paid, and allow entrance from the egress into the entrancing and enticing world that is on display, therein.

The Museum, housed in the historic 1842 Second Meeting House at 40 Main Street in Bethel, is currently showcasing a number of vintage toys, the recent acquisition and genealogical research of the 1800's zinc gravestone of William H. Trowbridge (with a most amazing story to match - both man and marker), an array of old hatters' tools, the contents of the 84 Greenwood Time Capsule opened in April 2012, an homage to Bethel's great provocateur P.T. Barnum, a handful of Bethel newspapers from the 1800s, and inevitably much much more behind those secret doors...

So, waddle on over to Main Street while the weather is fresh, and the sidewalks clear (for leaves and snowfall will soon follow), stroll to the top of the hill and watch as the elephant trunks point up up up...but beware and be wary for if you roll a seven you may wind up behind the bars of the old town jail (look for the bars as you ascend the driveway), while any other number will take you posthaste to the place where every ghost-once-human that ever trundled through Bethel, has come one time or another - the location where the past, present and future all roll into one.  Remember, "History...without it you don't exist!"

...and may all of our press releases do Mr. Barnum, proud.

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