Our newsletter of the ephrata cloister associates includes overviews of events, collections, partnership programs, and volunteers. Discovery tours provide a focused visit for one or two classrooms. The reader of the numerous histories of ephrata will surely educe that much of the success of the cloister was heavily dependent on the personality and charisma of one man conrad beissel. Most artifacts, excluding paper items, are on exhibit in the historic buildings. When his presence left the community at his death in 1768, ephrata cloister simply began to irreversibly diminish. Community days offers an open house that brings the museum to life with various learning stations offering an excellent way for selfdirected learning, multiple age groups, and home schools. School programs historic ephrata cloister offers two different formats for school visits. Scholars wishing to study the artifacts should contact the curator by calling the historic site 717 7336600. Search thousands of hotel, restaurant, and resort jobs on hospitality online, the largest hospitality careers site in the world.
The ephrata cloister maintains a rich collection of original artifacts including furniture, printed books, manuscripts, baskets and ceramics. Preserving a legacy of william penns holy experiment. Recordings of the ephrata cloister chorus are available at the museum store. Apply to nursing assistant, maintenance superintendent, barista and more. This issue features an account of a 1744 comet on exhibit and a. The grounds of the community are now owned by the commonwealth of pennsylvania and are administered by the pennsylvania historical and museum commission marie kachel bucher, the last surviving resident of the ephrata.
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