Schedule
- 6:30 p.m. — Doors and displays open
- 7 p.m. — Speakers begin
- 9 p.m. — Reception and displays
Cost
Event Overview
The annual history symposium takes place at Old Main, on Washington & Jefferson College.
The lobby will include:
- Registration table - check in here
- Bradford House gift shop table (books)
- Kate Cunning - cooking demonstrators on the last Saturday of each month in the Bradford House kitchen cabin
- Other non-profits to be announced.
Admission is $40 a person. This is one of the Bradford House Historical Association's annual fundraisers, supporting our mission to educate.
Suitable for those 12 years old to 100.
Each year, the presenters are chosen based on the period in time they represent and their connection to Southwestern PA.
2025 features Mrs. Hancock
Witness to the Revolution: In April 1775 Dorothy Quincy was engaged to Boston’s wealthiest merchant and Revolutionary Hero, John Hancock. On April 14th she was with her betrothed in Lexington, MA when “the Shot Heard “Round the World” was fired. Newlywed in 1776, Mrs. John Hancock was in Philadelphia serving in an unofficial role as her husband’s secretary when he made his most famous signature on the New Declaration of Independence. When the French Alliance was brokered, it was a resourseful and quick thinking Mrs. Hancock who soothed over matters in Boston in the immediate aftermath of the French Bread Riots of September 1778.
As a witness of to the revolution, it seemed Mrs. Hancock was in all the right places at all the right times to tell some of the most interesting tales of American Independence.
Kim Hanley: Bio Actor/Historian, Interpreter, Reenactor, Impersonator
Photo Gallery of Past Symposiums
Student Poster Contest
For intermediate/middle and high school students. Registration is open Jan. 2 to Feb. 28.
The Bradford House Historical Association annually sponsors two Poster Contests, open to all intermediate/middle and high school students (public, parochial, cyber, and home-schooled) on a topic of Western Pennsylvania history, 1750 – 1850. The contest is open to students who reside in Washington, Greene, Allegheny, Fayette, and Westmoreland Counties.
Students must construct a presentation on a standard-size trifold display board, register online during January and February, and deliver the project to the BHHA Meeting House, 182 South Main Street, Washington, Pennsylvania, in March. See the Poster Rules links below for complete rules, hints for developing a project, a work cited sample, and a list of possible topics.
Online registration is open from January 2 through February 28. You can register for the poster contest by mailing the completed poster registration form (See the Poster Registration link below) to the Bradford House, PO Box 537, Washington, PA 15301, or emailing it to education@bradfordhouse.org.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the top 3 entries in each division: Middle School (grades 5-8) and High School (grades 9-12).
Contest prizes are generously provided by Teri West - Realtor.
