June 6 WW II Films showing during regular museum hours, courtesy Lou Reda Productions. Includes Tribute to WWII, WW II in HD, Hell’s Battlefield:D Day. Included with regular museum admission $7 adults, $5 children 3-12.

June 8 Fraktur Art and Calligraphy Workshop for Adults, 9 am – 12 pm. Art teacher Larry Brown and calligrapher/author Susan Master will immerse participants in the very colorful Pennsylvania-German art form, its historical purpose, and the resulting distinctive art works. Participants will leave with a completed piece of art in frame and ready for hanging. Registration fee $25 includes materials and frame plus free admission to the museum. Register at 610-253-1222.

June 11 WW II Films showing during regular museum hours, courtesy Lou Reda Productions. Includes USS Missouri Commissioned. The Three Wars of the Battleship Missouri. Included with regular museum admission $7 adults, $5 children 3-12.

June 14 WW II Films showing during regular museum hours, courtesy Lou Reda Productions. Includes Birthdate of the Army: GI Joe, Tribute to WW II. Included with regular museum admission $7 adults, $5 children 3-12.

June 15 WW II Films showing during regular museum hours, courtesy Lou Reda Productions. Includes Battle of Saipan: Imperial Sunset of Saipan. Included with regular museum admission $7 adults, $5 children 3-12.

June 16 Father’s Day at Sigal, Fathers attend free, 12 – 4 pm, Sigal Museum, 342 Northampton St., Easton.
Treat Dad to a visit to the Sigal Museum.

June 19 WW II Films showing during regular museum hours, courtesy Lou Reda Productions. Includes:
Battles of the Pacific: D Days in the Pacific: Death at the Tideline. Included with regular museum admission $7 adults, $5 children 3-12.

June 22 Exhibit Opening: Liberty Called and Northampton County Answered. Exhibit open during regular museum hours and continues through November 20.Admission $7 adults, $5 children 3-12.

With few words and compelling images the propaganda posters of both the World Wars motivated people to conserve fuel, plant victory gardens, collect scrap metals, buy War Bonds, and enlist in the service. The posters hung in schools, libraries, theaters, post offices, government buildings, and most public places. The Sigal Museum will be showcasing 48 of these “weapons of mass communication” from our extensive collection along with archival materials, uniforms, and artifacts of those who answered the call to service on the front and on the home front here in Northampton County. Opening Public Reception 3-5 pm.

June 29 “Return to the Western Front: Americans in the Great War,” illustrated talk by historian Ed Root 1 pm.,

Saint Mihiel, The Marne, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, and The Argonne Forest. Northampton County men fought in the once beautiful countryside of northern France giving these sites a place in American history. Some are still there; all were changed forever in the quest to “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” Root shows where they fought and remembers their sacrifice as we approach the 100th anniversary of that terrible conflict. Free with museum admission or $5 donation requested.

June 30 Town Crier Family Fun Day at Sigal Museum 

12 – 2 pm, Town Crier Children’s Workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to prepare a cry, learn how to properly read a cry, how to project the voice, and how to use an attention-getting device. Free admission for children, $7 adult admission.

2:30-3:30, “History of Town Criers,” talk by Bill Joseph, Town Crier for Belvidere, NJ, and David Rose, Town Crier for Easton, PA. The story of public proclamations and the part played by Town Criers through the ages. They will provide examples of Cries that they, and others, have written for specific events, and demonstrate various attention getting devices used. The evaluating criteria of a Town Crier Competition will be given, based on the experience of the presenters.

July 3 WW II Films showing during regular museum hours, courtesy Lou Reda Productions. Includes Guadalcanal: The War in the Pacific. Included with regular museum admission $7 adults, $5 children 3-12.

July 7 Heritage Day at Sigal Museum. “Captured by Indians: The Gilbert Family Ordeal – A True Story of the Revolutionary War in Old Northampton County,”John Moore, historian and story-teller, 1 pm.

Moore will describe what it was like to be taken captive by tomahawk-wielding “savages” and dragged, as an entire family unit north into Canada. The Benjamin Gilbert family at the time of Sullivan’s march into Iroquois country – March, 1779 — lived near present-day Lehighton, then part of the original Northampton County (now part of Carbon County). The extended family was captured by a war party of raiding Iroquois and was marched 300 miles to Lake Ontario, then taken by boat to Montreal.
Museum hours: 11 am – 5 pm
Admission $5
Outside on the sidewalk: Pa-German Fraktur Mini-workshops, 11 am – 4 pm.

July 12 WW II Films showing during regular museum hours, courtesy Lou Reda Productions. Includes
Battle of Kursk: Hell’s Battlefield. Included with regular museum admission $7 adults, $5 children 3-12.