Description: Sunday Morning at Bethel is a reflection of my childhood memories of going to Sunday school and church at the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church where my father was the Sunday School Superintendent. This was a community institution where people met to talk after church, where singing unions were conducted, as well as Sunday School conventions were held. In this structure, deaths were announced by the tolling of the church bell and funerals took place. Most people attended church and wore their "Sunday best" attire. Every summer my father bought small parasols or umbrellas made in Japan for my sisters and me. Perhaps this accounts for the little girl under the tree with this item. Although not intentionally done, the woman in the blue dress resembles my mother.