Mead Tasting & Demonstration at Burnside Featuring the Colony Meadery Enjoy the beautiful fall scenery and changing colors in the colonial garden while tasting traditional meads. Join Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites at Burnside Plantation on Sunday, September 28 and October 18 at 2pm and 3pm for a mead tasting, demonstration and information event featuring [...]
A festival of innovative one-act plays, Muhlenberg's 'New Visions' spotlights inspired work of talented student directors Emerging theatrical talents will be on display in Muhlenberg College's "New Visions" Directors' Festival, featuring plays directed by four senior directing students in the College's Department of Theatre & Dance. "New Visions" plays Sept. 27-30 on Muhlenberg's Studio [...]
Lehigh Valley Zoological Society Announces New President & CEO The Board of Directors of Lehigh Valley Zoological Society announced the selection of Melissa Borland as the new President & CEO to lead Lehigh Valley Zoo. Ms. Borland will began her new role as of Monday. Prior to joining the Zoo, Ms. Borland served as the [...]
Photo Credit: Richard Ballard Puss n Boots with Norah Jones, Laurie Berkner, James Cotton & More Coming to Musikfest Café Puss n Boots featuring Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper; acclaimed children’s artist Laurie Berkner and blues icon James Cotton are among the new shows coming to the ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café [...]
Painter Todd Stone Kicks Off ‘Artists Among Us’ Residency Program at SteelStacks Bucks County Painter to Showcase Works Documenting Rebirth of the World Trade Center After 9/11 Internationally renowned painter Todd Stone will present “Downtown Rising - Studies in Resilience,” his series of works documenting the 9/11 tragedy in New York City and the ensuing [...]
Photo by Ted Colegrove Musikfest Attracts More Than 1.1 Million Visitors to Bethlehem & the Lehigh Valley Ideal weather, coupled with dynamic, new attractions and plenty of great, free music, made the perfect combination for ’fest-goers as Musikfest attracted a near-record number of visitors to Bethlehem and the Lehigh Valley this month. Estimated [...]
Colors, Portraits, and Main Street Views: Three Perspectives, One Story It is an exciting time to visit Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites. Right now with the Pass Into History admission ticket, guests have the opportunity to experience three unique facets of Bethlehem’s past. The first four site exhibition, Colors, is now open through October 26 [...]
Artists Robert Taylor and Darrel George Slated for Talk Back Series On Thursday, October 2, from 6 to 8 p.m., artists Robert Taylor and Darrell George are featured artists for the Talk Back Series, at The Bethlehem House Contemporary Art Gallery, located at 459 Main Street, Bethlehem. Contemporary figurative artist, Robert Taylor grew up in [...]
Ten Thousand Villages Collaboration in Pennsylvania and Five Library Openings in Romania The literacy nonprofit organization, Judith’s Reading Room, aims to raise public awareness of the extraordinary value of the written word by celebrating UNESCO’s International Literacy Day 2014 both here and abroad. In eastern Pennsylvania, Ten Thousand Villages, one of the world’s oldest [...]
Honoring Seniors with Free History Museum Admission The first Sunday after Labor Day is nationally recognized as Grandparents Day. Since 1978, the United States has honored grandparents in recognition of the vast contributions made by seniors through history. So what better way to salute those historic figures and their contributions than to celebrate in a [...]
