WITH FAITH restored

A passionate voice of the Great Awakening, the Rev. Joseph Bellamy was a larger-than-life character in 18th-century Bethlehem, a fledgling town in rural Litchfield County, Connecticut. Both his prestige and his imposing physical presence—he stood over six feet tall, and weighed nearly 300 pounds—were reflected in the house in which he lived, taught, and wrote from 1754 until his death in 1790.

Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and managed as a museum by the preservation organization Connecticut