Warming us up to Valentine’s Day, Wallingford historian Angela Hewett will bring glimpses from the romantic life of a prominent local family to Plush Mills on Monday, February 8 at 3 PM.

Ms. Hewett’s presentation shares "Leiper Love Letters Over the Years", but she says the topic ranges to other romantic artifacts from five generations of the Leiper family, who were early settlers of our area. Among the correspondence Ms. Hewett will read and discuss are passionate love letters, descriptions of an 1846 Niagara Falls honeymoon, a "Dear John" letter and its surprising aftermath, and a visit to an 1841 wedding in a house near U. of Penn.'s campus, attended by 150 guests in the winter.

Ms. Hewett is the curator of the Thomas Leiper House on Avondale Road in Wallingford, and a board member of the Nether Providence Historical Society. The Leiper House is open on weekends from April through December and provides a deeper look into the Leipers and the lives they lived in Nether Providence over many generations.

At Wallingford’s historic Leiper House, Angela Hewett shows the 1890 wedding dress of Virginia Leiper Black.