Historic marker dedication

Historic marker dedication
Saturday, June 21, 1-4 p.m.
The Henry Sheldon Museum, in collaboration with the state of Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Vermont Humanities and the town of Weybridge, is dedicating a Vermont roadside historic marker honoring Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, a same-sex couple in early America at the Weybridge Hill Cemetery. Bryant (1777–1851) and Drake (1784–1868) lived together as a self-supporting couple in Weybridge for over 40 years and are buried under one headstone at the cemetery. Charity’s nephew, the Romantic poet William Cullen Bryant, described Charity and Sylvia’s union as “no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage.” After the 1 p.m. dedication at the cemetery, there will be a 2:30 p.m. reception with an exhibition of items from the Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake Collection at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury.