Patrick Tierney Wild

Patrick Tierney Wild is a Bethel native who has served as the town’s municipal historian since 1993. He attended kindergarten at the Plumtrees one-room schoolhouse, St. Mary’s School, Bethel High School, and has a BS degree from Rutgers University and an MA from the College of New Rochelle. He has written articles for the Danbury News-Times, Bethel Home News, Bethel Beacon, and Bethel Grapevine and provided historical information for biographical documentaries on P.T. Barnum for the Arts & Entertainment Channel and the Discovery Channel. He is the author of Images of America – Bethel (1996), Historic Tales of Bethel (2011), and Bethel - Village Among the Hills (2023). He served as a Bethel selectman from 2003-2007. He taught for thirty-six years and retired in 2020. His last position was as a social studies teacher at Ridgefield High School, where he taught Advanced Placement courses in United States History and United States Government and Politics.