By Erin D'Amelio I had both the fortunate and, I realized later, unfortunate opportunity to go back home during the mid-year holiday break for my sister's wedding. To be honest, I was the most excited to visit my country, despite my planned trips to Myanmar and China the two weeks before I was to land [...]
Spend the evening with the Mountain Folk Opry Show and additional events In celebration of extended hours from 10a.m. to 8p.m. from June 28-July 6, 2014, the Kutztown Folk Festival will now offer half-price admission ($7.00) after 5 p.m. Festival-goers can now enjoy hours of entertainment including the Mountain Folk Opry Stage Show. Modeled after the Grand Old [...]
Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites is proud to announce the opening of its new garden at the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts! Designed and installed by Scott Rothenberger‘s PLACE, it is a culmination of over a year’s hard work and dedication. Just as the historic architecture of the Kemerer Museum is blended with contemporary additions [...]
By Erin D'Amelio “Teacher, I no understand.” It’s a common phrase that I hear in this position, alongside a plethora of other errors that my students make when speaking or writing both inside and outside the classroom. Right then and there marks the struggle I and every other ESL teacher faces every day: Do we [...]
Enter To Win a VIP Experience at the Kutztown Folk Festival The Kutztown Folk Festival is announcing a contest to enter to win a VIP Experience at this year's festival. Beginning Monday, June 9, 2014 interested parties can enter by "liking" the Kutztown Folk Festival Facebook page and submitting an entry on the Sweepstakes Application [...]
A Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites Four-Site Showcase The Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites announces its newest exhibition, Colors, which will present some of the collection’s most vibrant and ornate objects, including fine examples of glass, textiles, furniture, clothing and ceramics. For the first time ever, this exhibition will run across all four of the [...]
By Erin D'Amelio I brought my computer with me to the hostel students’ study hall one night with plans to show them what I had so far of the video my Form 5 classes have been working on for the past two weeks. It had been a while since I saw the boys, since last [...]
Join a lively presentation with New York Times best-selling author, Carol McD. Wallace on her book: To Marry and English Lord, the book that inspired the popular show Downton Abbey, on Wednesday, May 28, 2014 from noon to 3pm at the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, Bethlehem PA. Hear about the glamour and misfortune that [...]
Williams Township residents will hold a Memorial Day Ceremony on Sunday, May 25, at 6 p.m. to honor fallen heroes, living veterans, and service persons on active duty. The sunset ceremony will be held at the Williams Twp. Municipal Building, 655 Cider Press Rd. in Williams Township. Lou DiLullo, retired Captain, U.S. Navy, and township [...]
By Erin D'Amelio A few facts from the Buddhism course I had taken a year ago feebly floated around my mind as my friends and I walked around the Ounalom Pagoda in Phnom Penh, but the lessons I had once concretized were too flimsy to capture and explain the religion and its symbols to my [...]
