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From the Publisher

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Easton Heritage Edition 2018

Welcome to the 2018 Easton Heritage Edition! When I became aware that the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor was celebrating its 30th anniversary, I thought it would be a perfect focus for this year’s Easton Heritage Edition.

Congress passed an Act in 1988 establishing the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but the history behind the Corridor goes back so much further than 30 years. From Joshiah White and Erskine Hazard’s creation of the Lehigh canal system to the philanthropic efforts of Hugh Moore, Easton played a significant role throughout the history of this national historic area. With the assistance and guidance of Museum & Education Director Daphne Mayer and Historian & Archives Coordinator Martha Capwell Fox, I was able to compile a variety of information and historic images to tell the story of the Lehigh & Delaware National Heritage Corridor. So sit back, relax, and take a leisurely cruise along a canal of history.

I owe much appreciation to Daphne Mayer and Martha Capwell Fox at the D&L for all of their help with the research for this year’s Edition. Much love and gratitude to my Retail Ad Manager, Colin K. Gregory, and to my Creative Director, Michelle L. Corby—you’re both wonderful! And to all of our contributors, advertisers and readers, thank you—this book is an exciting challenge to me every year, but it is quite a feat to bring it all together. Enjoy! I wish you all a safe and happy summer! The Irregular will return in September. Don’t forget to BUY LOCAL!!

Lydia E. Bruneo Publisher & Editor

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Lydia E. Bruneo Publisher & Editor Michelle L Corby Creative Director Contributors: Carole J. Heffley Easton Hospital Janene Otten Dawn Ouellette Nixon Gene Palmiter Pam Ruch Retail Ad Manager Colin K. Gregory Distribution Ken Gross Reach us at: PO Box 85, Easton, PA 18044 610-258-4330 bruneo1776@aol.com facebook.com/theirregularnewspaper The Irregular will return in its regular format September 1, 2018. Thank You & Happy Summer! © Bruneo Publishing, LLC. All rights reserved.

The background artwork of this year’s cover was created by Elizabeth Harer for the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, and the D&L graciously permitted us use of the art. Center photo was taken

by The Irregular’s Creative Director, Michelle L. Corby who also designed the cover. The photo displays the Josiah White II on the Lehigh Canal docked at Hugh Moore Park in Easton, PA. If you’ve not been a passenger aboard the Josiah White II, be sure to visit the National Canal Museum. Please see the information below.

National Canal Museum 2750 Hugh Moore Park Road Easton, PA 18042 610-923-3548 canals.org Hours of Operation: 11:30 am to 4:30 pm Weekends only: June 2 to June 10, 2018 Wed. thru Sun.: June 13 through September 30, 2018 Saturday & Sunday only: October 6 to October 28, 2018 Museum Only – Saturday & Sunday: November 3 – December 23.

Canal Boat & Museum Admission Adults: $12 Seniors: $11 Children (3-15): $9 Family Pack: $39 (2 Adults & up to 3 Children) Children under 3: Free For more information about the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, visit delawareandlehigh.org.

Please call the museum for volunteer opportunities. Volunteers are currently needed on Saturdays at the Locktender’s House.

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1001 Thai ..................... 39 2018 Martin on Main .... 45 A Cut Above .................. 11 Al’s Cleaners ................. 13 American Printing ........ 35 Angelo’s Restaurant ...... 33 Antonio’s Pizza ............. 11 Arndt’s Lutheran Church .. 9 Ashton Funeral Home ... 46 Aura Ceramics ................ 46 Book & Puppet Co. ........ 22 Canalside Cup ................ 43 Colonial Pizza ............... 46 Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor ........... 36 DeSales University Act 1 ... 2 Digital Cloud Company ... 23 Dr. Milano ..................... 31 Dr. Titus ........................ 15 Easton Baking Company .... 15 Easton Electronics ......... 24 Easton Heritage Day ........ 5

Contents Easton Home ................ 46 Easton Hospital ............. 44 Easton Market District ... 48 Easton Monument ........ 17 Easton Upholstery .......... 21 Flower Essence ............... 19 Forks Cleaners ................ 15 Forks Mediterranean Deli . .19 Giacomo’s Italian Market .. 25 Hair 48 ......................... 19 Heritage Guild ................ 3 Ingridable Design ........... 43 Jimmy’s Doggie Stand .....15 Judy’s Auto Repair .......... 20 Kaplan’s ......................... 17 Kevin Kocher .................. 9 Kirk Wagner Home Improvement ...... 13 Lafayette Inn ................ 39 Michael Buskirk Painting . 13 Mycalyn Floral ............. 11 NCC Summer Theatre ... 47

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Newburg Deli .............. 39 Pat’s Brakes/Lynn’s Garage . .11 Pop’s Kitchen & Taproom .. 25 Quadrant ...................... 24 Reagle Insurance ............ 6 Salvage Goods ............. 15 Spring Garden Court Apt. . 25 State Cafe & Grill ........... 22 State Theatre ............... 31 Strunk Funeral Home .... 39 Susan Kolar Couture ...... 13 Taqueria La Plaza ......... 11 Terry’s Italian Restaurant ... 20 The Loving Piece .......... 24 Third Street Alliance ...... 25 Tommy’s Sole Mio .........31 Two Rivers Brewing ........ 33 U-Launderit .................. 35 Valley Tire ..................... 18 Williams Center for the Arts . 42

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From the Publisher ..................... 4 On the Cover ................................ 4 Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Celebrates 30 Years .......... 6 From the Beginning: Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, The Lehigh Navigation, Delaware Canal and Abbott Street .. 7 The National Canal Museum: A Hidden Treasure in Easton, Pennsylvania ...12 Hugh Moore: Paper Cups, Peace Efforts and Parks! ......................16 Vintage Postcards ..................... 22 Arts & Entertainment ................ 26 Artistic Endeavors ..................... 31 Irregular Beats ......................... 32 Irregular Eats ........................... 34 Easton Hospital Health Column .. 36 Irregular Bookshelf ................... 37 Gardening: The Artful Gardener ... 40 Irregular Events ........................ 42 Crossword Answers ..................... 43 Crossword Puzzle ...................... 46

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Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Celebrates 30 Years This year marks 30 years since Congress passed the Act that established the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. An amendment to the Act in 1998, removed “Navigation Canal” and the name became the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor. The Purpose of the Corridor as stated in the 1988 Act is: “It is the purpose of this Act to provide a management framework to assist the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions in developing and implementing integrated cultural, historical, and natural resource policies and programs that will preserve and interpret for the educational and inspirational benefit of present and future generations the unique and significant contributions to our national heritage of certain historic and cultural lands, waterways, and structures within and surrounding the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal in the Commonwealth.”

The movement of D&L’s federal legislation through Congress was influenced by Congressmen Peter Kostmayer and Don Ritter. Kostmayer began his efforts in 1984 when his constituents were concerned about the condition of the Delaware Canal. Ritter was involved with an economic development initiative to create a Lehigh River heritage corridor. The two eventually joined forces, and along with the state, supported a heritage conference in Bethlehem that focused specifically on the D&L region. In addition, the National Canal Museum was also a driving force behind the Corridor. A whole coalition of environmental outfits began to put together a plan that adhered to the framework of the National Park Service to develop the Corridor, and on November 18, 1988, the Delaware & Lehigh National Corridor was official.

One of 49 National Heritage Areas in the U.S., the Delaware & Lehigh National Corridor is a “public-private partnership of passionate residents and volunteers working alongside local, regional and national entities to conserve cultural and natural resources in the five-county region of eastern Pennsylvania. This is a nationally significant historic transportation route that traverses railroads, canals, rivers and trails.”

The Corridor stretches 165 miles from northeast Pennsylvania to the Delaware River port of Bristol, near Philadelphia.

The Corridor encompassed the counties of Luzerne, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton and Bucks. Over the past thirty years, the organization has worked diligently at preserving a historically significant pathway and constructing a trail to give the public access. In addition, D&L established trail programs and events to encourage use of the trail - Get Your Tail on the Trail is celebrating 5 years! The D&L also partners with Lehigh Valley Greenways Conservation Landscape, which uses greenways and trails to link urban areas to the natural and cultural resources of the Lehigh Valley. They provide education through the Freemansburg Canal Education Center and with the Tales of the Towpath curriculum, which reaches chil6

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dren through classroom presentations, field trips and museum visits. Significant to Easton, the D&L operates the National Canal Museum and Hugh Moore Park, since 2013. The two merged in 2017 and the museum, along with the other operations of Hugh Moore Historical Park & Museums, is now the Signature Program of the D&L. Both are Smithsonian Affiliates, the Canal Museum having been recognized in 2002 (the only canal affiliate in the U.S.), and the D&L in 2017 (the first Heritage affiliate in the U.S.). The Canal Museum enables the D&L to tell the story of America’s historic towpath canals.

On June 2, 2018, the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor celebrated their anniversary with a Founder’s Day Celebration at Easton’s Hugh Moore Park. June 2 also marked this year’s season opening of the National Canal Museum as well as National Trails Day. This year’s featured exhibit at the Museum is Powering American: Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Railroads, which coincides with the 250th anniversary of the first known use of anthracite coal.

Today the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is alive and strong, connecting people to nature, culture, communities, recreations and our industrial heritage.

Here’s to many more years of making history.

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From the beginning:

Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, the Lehigh Navigation, Delaware Canal and Abbott Street

In the mid-1700s, blacksmith Obadiah Gore Jr. went to Wyoming Valley. In his shop near present day Pittston and Wilkes-Barre, he experimented with a type of stone he had found there and proved that the stone’s high and even heat was ideal for industrial use. This stone is known as anthracite coal. Word and newspaper accounts spread his discovery thus launching the coal industry in northeastern and central Pennsylvania. According to some, this year marks the 250th anniversary of anthracite coal dating Gore’s trip to Wyoming Valley as 1768; however, other sources site the year as 1769. Regardless, anthracite coal became highly desirable and the next steps we mining and shipping it.

In 1792, the Lehigh Coal Mine Company (LCMC) was founded in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The company purchased 10,000 acres of land with the intent to haul anthracite coal from the large deposits on Pisgah Mountain near what is now Summit Hill to Philadelphia via mule train arks built near Lausanne on the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers. LCMC was quite active with this venture through 1814 selling all of the coal it could get to fuel-hungry markets, but many a boatload was lost on the rough waters of the Lehigh River and they just as often lost money as made profits.

Eventually, the owners sold some coal to Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, who operated a wire mill foundry at the

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Falls of the Schuylkill near Philadelphia. White and Hazard were delighted by the quality of the fuel, and subsequently bought the Lehigh Coal Mine Company’s final two barges to survive the trip down the Lehigh. Convinced they could much improve the reliability of its delivery, they began in 1815 to inquire after the rights to mine the LCMC’s coal and hatched a plan to improve the navigation on the Lehigh as a key step.

In 1817, White and Hazard leased the Lehigh Coal Mine Company’s properties and took over operations, incorporating on October 21, 1818, as the Lehigh Coal Company along with partner George Hauto. They petitioned the legislature and proposed acquiring rights to make improvements of the river, for which there was a string of supportive legislation going back decades.

“Under the conditions of the lease, it was stipulated that, after a given time for preparation, they should deliver for their own benefit at least forty thousand bushels of coal annually in Philadelphia and the surrounding districts, and should pay, if demanded, one ear of corn as a yearly rental.”

— Brenckman, History of Carbon County, Pennsylvania (1884)

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Having displayed great technological skills by creating the world’s first iron wire suspension bridge, which spanned the Schuylkill River at their wire works, White and Hazard schemed with other industrialists to secure a reliable source of anthracite. To move the coal to market, they entered political negotiations to acquire rights to tame the turbulent and rapids-ridden Lehigh River for navigation. By 1817–18, they had organized the separate Lehigh Navigation Company and had written stock flyers announcing plans to deliver barge loads of coal regularly to Philadelphia by 1824.

The company began to prepare plans and surveyed sites, and when the state legislature approved the river work in 1818, they immediately hired teams of men and began to install locks, dams, and weirs, including water management gates of their own novel design. The desired opportunity “to ruin themselves”, as one member of the Legislature put it, was granted by an act passed March 20, 1818. This act gave them ownership of the entire Lehigh River! These rights were not released back to Pennsylvania until 1964.

Now that White and Hazard’s companies had control of the Lehigh, they went to work. By 1819 White patented his “bear-trap” lock and one-way river navigation was established. The “bear-trap” was a dam on the river with a sluice gate in the middle. The locks were so named by

Above is a vintage postcard showing the Change Bridge, one of the first cable suspension bridges constructed in America. It was erected in 1857 by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation to enable the mules pulling the canal boats to cross from one side to the other on the Lehigh River. Many individuals used this bridge as a walking bridge to reach Island Park on Smith Island. The bridge was also known as the “Donkey Bridge” and “Chain”. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Place in 1974. Below is a photo showing the few remains of the bridge that still exist today.

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This is a sketch from Richard Richardson’s 1873 book showing White’s Bear Trap Lock. Richardson was White’s son in law. image from culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com

the workmen who while perfecting the prototype along the Mauch Chunk Creek applied this name “to elude the curiosity of persons who teased them with inquiries as to what we were making.”

The navigation system was one-way at first. The boats floated down the waterway and were steered by long sweeps that were a combination of an oar and a rudder. The vessels carried 30-40 tons of coal. Most of the 44 locks on the descent to Easton, PA were spillway variants of White’s beartrap lock. When tipped or triggered, they released several acre-feet (creating a wave to raise the water level as the canal boat sank downriver). The canal carried central Lehigh Valley anthracite to northeastern urban markets, particularly Philadelphia, Trenton and Wilmington, and supporting new industry in Bristol, Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. White and Hazard overstocked the market demand in 1820, having opened practical, though not ideal navigability of the Lehigh over four years ahead of their targeted 1824 date. Coal mining and delivery by grading a near constant descent mule track from Summit Hill to feed a loading chute at the huge slack water pool created at Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) went well; the coal deposits were essentially outcrops needing little effort to extract.

After buying out co-founder George Hauto in 1820, White and Hazard reworked their lease deal with the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, and merged it with the Lehigh Coal Company, acquiring ownership of its 10,000 acres spanning three parallel valleys in the 14 miles from Mauch Chunk to Tamaqua. A few months later, they merged the Lehigh Coal Company and the Lehigh Navigation Company. In late 1821, they filed papers to incorporate Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N), which took effect in 1822. This is believed to be the first merger of interlocking companies in the United States.

Improvements were made 1821-1824, and in 1827 work began to create a two-way navigation system. The two-way system was ready by 1929 at which point mules began to pull the boats. Mules were more capable than horses and they ate less. They resisted disease more easily and many believed they were easier to train. A well cared for mule provided 15-18 years of work. Boats operated between the hours of 4 AM and 10 PM when the locks closed. The Lehigh Canal was always closed on Sunday. The completed

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From the beginning Lehigh Navigation ran from Mauch Chunk to Easton at a length of 46 miles. White’s description of his new canal upon completion in 1929 was: “Notwithstanding the size of the locks, everything being new and the gatekeepers inexperienced, the average time of passing the locks was about five-minutes. There are forty-five lift-locks in number, of six, seven, eight, and nine feet fall, all of twenty-two feet by 100 feet, except the four upper ones near Mauch Chunk, which are thirty feet by 130 feet, overcoming a fall of 360 and 87/100 feet, in a distance of forty six and ¾ miles, and there are six guard-locks.

The dams are eight in number; they are built of timber and stone in a very substantial manner, with stone abutments, and of the following heights: five, thirteen, eight, sixteen, twelve, six, seven and a half, and ten feet from surface to surface.”

The last mule-drawn boat on the Lehigh Navigation made its final trip in the spring of 1942. Today, the only fully functional stretch of the Lehigh Navigation is in Easton, PA with Lock 47 being the only operational lift lock.

The Delaware Canal In 1831, the State of Pennsylvania opened the Delaware Canal, which ran from Easton to Bristol parallel to the Delaware River, after deciding to tackle the task themselves (Josiah White had offered to engineer and build it for a break in fees, but the state had declined). It turned out to be an embarrassment to the state as the canal leaked immensely. The commonwealth asked White to step in and make repairs as well as operate the canal under the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company once it was ready to reopen in 1832. In 1834, the Lehigh Navigation was connected to the Delaware and

The Abbott Street industrial area, circa 1885. Begun in 1832, Abbott Street was one of America’s first industrial parks. It was developed by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company because of the abundance of water in the canal, which the company sold to power mills and factories. image courtesy of National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, Pa.

This vintage postcard displays a colorful view of Lehigh River, Lehigh Navigation, Lucy Furnace and Chain Dam.

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Morris Canals.

The last paying canal boat completed its journey on the Delaware Canal October 17, 1931. On the same day, 40 miles of the 60 mile canal were deeded to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which acquired the remaining 20 miles in 1940. The Delaware Canal became Theodore Roosevelt State Park, and it was renamed Delaware Canal State Park in 1989.

Abbott Street Industrial Site The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company also utilized the canal to harness power for industrial parks along the waterways.

The Abbott Street industrial site was situated between the Lehigh River and Lehigh Navigation on the land now known as Hugh Moore Park. Begun in 1832, Abbott Street was one of America’s first industrial parks. It was developed by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company because of the abundance of water in the canal, which the company sold to power mills and factories.

Business at Abbott Street was booming in the 1840s; by 1850 one thousand men were employed there in almost a dozen factories making such products as rifle barrels, whiskey stills, cotton, iron wire, and sawn lumber. A few of the companies here included Swift & Breck cotton mill (was later sold and became McKeen & Raphael Co. cotton mill, and Lafayette IceCoal Storage Co. in later years), the Maxwell & Palmer Co. grist mill, Rodenbaugh and Stewart Wire Works (later renamed

The Locktender’s House and workboat at Guard Lock 8 on the Lehigh Navigation c. 1930. This is the third locktender’s house, built in 1928. The previous house at this location burned in a fire February 1928. image courtesy of National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, Pa.

Work boat in the canal at Chain Dam in front of Keystone Furnace. The small stone building is the original locktender’s house for the Guard Lock 8. image courtesy of National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, Pa.

Reconstruction of the outlet lock at South Easton in 1904, showing placement of the drop-gate wickets, which were salvaged from the original lock. The lock was rebuilt using concrete. image courtesy of National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, Pa.

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From the beginning Rodenbaugh and Stewart & Co.). Also in the vicinity were the Glendon Iron Company and the Lucy Furnace. By 1900 almost all of these industries had ceased operation.

The end of their legacy Many historians believe that America’s industrial revolution began right here in the Lehigh Valley. By establishing a demand for anthracite coal and creating a system for its transport, Josiah White and Erskine Hazard certainly spearheaded industrialism in America. Their business ventures extended well beyond the canals and the Abbott Street industrial site. Though subsidiaries of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company operated many of their businesses over time, LC&N did not dissolve until the late 1980s. In 1986, shareholders dissolved the company after it sold its last business, Cella’s Chocolate Covered Cherries, to Tootsie Roll.

Caption John Best and his wife Martha “Hautie” Best moving their boat from the Delaware Canal into the Lehigh Navigation. image courtesy of National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, Pa.

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The National Canal Museum:

A hidden treasure in Easton, Pennsylvania The National Canal Museum in Easton, PA is the signature program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor and is one of the country’s largest canal heritage museums. Located in Easton’s 520-acre, picturesque Hugh Moore Park, the museum is dedicated to telling the story of America’s historic towpath canal.

The museum occupies the first floor of the Elaine and Peter Emrick Technology Center and offers an interpretation of the history and culture of canals as well as the science and technology behind their building through exhibits and hands-on activities; D&L offices and a The National Canal Museum at Hugh Moore Park in Easton, PA. state-of-the-art national canal archives photo by Lydia E. Bruneo and library occupy the second floor. Included in the museum experience is a 45-minute ride on the 110-passenger Josiah White II canal boat along the Lehigh Canal led by an authentically-dressed crew and hard-working mules Hank and George, and tours of the Locktender’s House are conducted Friday-Sunday during the operational season. In addition to the museum experience, enjoy dinner cruises, themed events, catered dinners and live music plus all the amenities Hugh Moore Park offers - a pavilion, playground, bike skills course, multi-use paths, canoes, paddle boats and a newly added dog park.

Hugh Moore Park was not always home to The National Canal Museum, and it only recently became a program of the D&L National Heritage Corridor. In 1962, the City of Easton purchased Hugh Moore Park with funds that were donated by Hugh Moore, who saw the significance of the area. The land was totally undeveloped at this time. Not long after, the city created the Hugh Moore Park Commission. During this time period, in 1966, the Pennsylvania Canal Society formed. The first National Canal Museum opened in 1970 as a joint cooperative effort between the City of Easton’s Hugh Moore Park Commission and the Pennsylvania Canal Society, and it was located, not in Hugh Moore Park, but on Route 611 South at 200 S. Delaware Drive. The memory is vague, but I do recall visiting this site of the

The Locktender’s House at Hugh Moore Park as it appears today. It was built in 1928 after the previous house had burned in a fire. It is technically the third locktender’s house; the one that burned (the second house) was built in the late 1800s. The first and original house had been on the other side of the canal. photos by Lydia E. Bruneo

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The National Canal Museum:

A hidden treasure in Easton, Pennsylvania museum when I was in elementary school. In fact, it became a popular destination for school trips.

Work progressed at Hugh Moore Park, and around 1974, groups were taken over to the park after a visit to the museum to tour the Locktender’s House. According to long time employee (now volunteer), Richard Ellis, husband and wife team Harry and Doris Vetter would dress in clothing of the time and conduct An glimpse inside the Nationthe tours. The restoration al Canal Museum at Hugh Moore Park in Easton, PA. of the Locktender’s House photo by Lydia E. Bruneo was a bicentennial project in 1976 of the Junior League of the Lehigh Valley, a charitable nonprofit women’s group; it reopened for tours after completion. Later, in 1978, one could venture over to Hugh Moore Park and take a ride aboard the Josiah White.

The first Josiah White boat was an original canal work boat (not freight) and was restored and modified to carry passengers along the restored section of the canal. The first Josiah White retired after the 1993 season, and Josiah White II (still in use today) was ready in November 1993.

The museum’s exhibits were redesigned to make the museum a national museum of the towpath canal era in 1982. This redesign also acted as a catalyst for the expansion into the industrial heritage of the Lehigh Valley.

During this period, the National Canal Museum began hosting several major events, including the annual Canal Festival (c. 1982-1986) and the Canal History and Technology Symposium, which was a one-day event held annually at Lafayette College from 1982 to 2011.

By 1985, the Museum was realizing the ability for a complete collection and archival ability of important artifacts of both the canal era and the industrial revolution.

Volunteers of the National Canal Museum escort mules Hank and George as they pull the Josiah White II along the Lehigh Canal on a recent Saturday afternoon. photo by Lydia E. Bruneo

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The National Canal Museum: A hidden treasure in Easton, Pennsylvania In 1996, the National Canal Museum moved to downtown Easton into Two Rivers Landing in Centre Square, which was home to the Crayola Factory (now the Crayola Experience) in an effort to revitalize the downtown district. They signed a 15-year lease.

The Museum became an affiliate of the Smithsonian in 2002. Also in this year, the museum began a campaign to recreate the museum to add hands-on activities to the existing exhibits. A proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) resulted in a grant of $1.4 million, later supplemented to $2 million for the creation of exhibits based on their proposal “Science and Technology of Canals and Inland Waterways.” New exhibit space, incorporating the history, science, and technology of canal construction and navigation, was installed in 2006, and two years later, in 2008, the National Canal Museum was awarded the Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience by the Association of Science-Technology Centers.

When the lease at Two Rivers Landing expired in 2011, it was not renewed. In January 2012, the National Canal Museum was relocated back to the canal, but this time at Hugh Moore Park in The Peter & Elaine Emrick Technology Center. Construction of the Emrick Technology Center had begun in 2004, and in 2006 Miller, Miller & McLachlan Constuction, Inc. received an Excellence in Construction Award for the Center. Funding for the project had been donated by local farmers, Peter and Elaine Emrick. The Emrick’s had sold a lot of land

The first Canal Museum on Route 611 South in Easton, PA. image courtesy of National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, Pa.

to developers and PennDot for the extension of Route 33 and made a generous donation to The National Canal Museum. The technology center opened in May 2007.

Unfortunately, Mr. Emrick passed away in 2005 and was never able to see the finished work.

In 2013, the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor began operating the National Canal Museum under a management agreement. This marked the beginning of a three-year transition in which the two organizations would become one. The transition allowed the D&L to integrate the management, finance, marketing, and development functions of the two organizations.

The merger of the two in 2017 culminated this transition

Passengers depart the first Josiah White canal boat at Hugh Moore Park. The Canal Museum began offering boat rides in 1978 image courtesy of National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, Pa.

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The National Canal Museum:

A hidden treasure in Easton, Pennsylvania period. The museum, along with the other operations of Hugh Moore Historical Park & Museums, is now the Signature Program of the D&L.

A 1988 postcard from the National Canal Museum when it was at 200 S. Delaware Drive on Rt. 611 South in Easton, PA. The back of the card reads: “This passenger carrying canal boat is similar to those that carried coal on the canal from 1829-1931. Today this boat operates on the restored Lehigh Canal near Easton, Pa.” The photo was taken by Anthony L. Iezzi Photography Service. The Josiah White’s final season was in 1993. image courtesy of Iezzi Photography, LLC (iezziphotography.com)

The Josiah White II docked at Hugh Moore Park in Easton, PA. It set sail for the 1994 season and is still in use today. photo by Michelle L. Corby

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Hugh Moore: Paper cups, peace efforts and parks!

Easton’s Hugh Moore Park was named after Hugh Moore, but who was he and what brought him to Easton, Pennsylvania? Hugh Everett Moore was born in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1887. After graduating high school, he became a journalist for a produce industry paper. This job took him to Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Boston. While in Boston, he attended Harvard for a year, but dropped out to assist his brother-in-law, Lawrence Luellen, with promoting his newly invented disposable cup and cold water vending machine. The rest of Moore’s life was dedicated to the business, though a brief stint as a captain in the Army Intelligence Service during WWI triggered his life-long focus on world peace.

The Dixie Cup Company Now back to Moore’s business venture… These paper cups he was peddling are better known today as Dixie Cups. Luellen created the cup, but it was Moore’s efforts that secured a market for it. He established an alliance with the public health campaigns led by Progressive reformers at the time who saw shared drinking vessels as unsanitary. Over time, the campaign to abolish the public drinking vessel gained several important endorsements.

Right here in Easton, PA, Lafayette biology professor Alvin Davison’s influential study on the contamination present in school drinking cups was published as “Death

in School Drinking Cups” in Technical World Magazine in August 1908, and redistributed by the Massachusetts State Board of Health in November 1909. Davison’s experiments were carried out in Easton, Pennsylvania’s public schools. In addition, Kansas passed the first state law to abolish the common drinking cup (also known as the “tin dipper”) in public places and the common glasses at coolers on railroads in 1909. Moore published a pamphlet called “The Cup Campaigner” in 1909-1910, and spoke at the Pure Food Show in Madison Square Garden on the dangers of the common drinking cup in 1910.

At the end of 1910, Luellen and Moore decided to consolidate their territorial companies. The Individual Drinking Cup Company of New York was incorporated in Maine on December 15, 1910; the company was reorganized and incorporated in New York in 1917. The company’s product was called the Health Kup by 1912 and had developed the first semi-automatic machine to produce them. By 1916, more than 100 railroads throughout the country had entered into contracts with the Individual Drinking Cup Company, and their market soon extended to drug stores and soda fountains. The flu epidemic after WWI created a higher demand for paper cups and Moore decided to change the name of product to stand apart from competitors. At the time, the company was sharing production space in New York with the

An old postcard of the Dixie Cup Company. The building has been vacant since the 1980s.

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Dixie Doll Company and Moore asked the dollmakers if he could borrow the name for his cup. They obliged and the Health Kup became the Dixie Cup. The continuous growth of the company made it necessary for Hugh Moore to consider a new location. According to Hugh Moore in “Is It True What They Say About Dixie?”, they began to search throughout the northeastern states for a suitable location. One day Peter Burnett, Industrial Agent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and Thomas Hay, a Lafayette College graduate, and the Secretary of the Board of Trade in Easton, called the office and suggested they come have a look at land in Easton. The town rang a bell as Moore had had correspondence with Lafayette biology professor Alvin P. Davison who had conducted the experiments in the Easton Public Schools that revolved around abolishing common drinking glasses. The first location they were shown would not work, and Moore became interested in a nearby property on the Easton-Bethlehem trolley line (now Wilson Borough); part of a 400acre farm owned by an Andrew Edelman, who at first refused to sell. Finally Moore bought 7 acres at $3000 an acre. With the support of Hay, Will Haytock, president of the Board of Trade, banker Chester Snyder, Judge James Fox, E.J. Richards, and James V. Bull, and backing from the Guaranty Fund of the Easton Board of Trade, Moore decided to build the new plant in Easton. This new facility of the Individual Drinking Cup Company opened in 1921.

Dixie’s first success in Easton began in 1923 with the idea of individual serving cups of ice cream in a Dixie cup. The company’s call 610-258-4330 to advertise

first contracts were with Weed’s Ice Cream Company of Allentown and Carry Ice Cream Company of Washington, D.C. Ice Cream Dixies earned almost instantaneous consumer acceptance. The Individual Drinking Cup Company established a plan of franchise that permitted only ice cream manufacturers packing high quality ice cream to use the brand name on the Diamond Design Dixie cup. A Dixie trademarked lid carried the individual ice cream manufacturers identification.

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Hugh Moore: Paper cups, peace efforts and parks! company was called the Dixie-Vortex Company until 1943 when it became the Dixie Cup Company. The success of Dixie products during World War II gave the paper cup business even greater prominence. Dixie approved a merger with American Can Company in 1957. Although Moore stepped down as an officer of the company, he continued to serve American Can Company as a consultant to its Dixie Cup Division, its main office still in Easton. Under the direction of American Can Co., the Dixie Division continued its growth and development of new products. In 1982, American Can was acquired by the James River Corporation of Virginia who relocated production to a modern facility in Forks Township. The James River Corporation changed its name to the Fort James Corporation in 1997. Dixie Cup is currently a product division of Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Koch Industries. The original Dixie plant in Easton (Wilson Borough) still remains vacant.

This is the front cover of a booklet that was written by Hugh Moore on the “Origin of the Dixie Cup Company�. image courtesy of National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, Pa.

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Peace Efforts Beginning in the late 1930s, Moore was active in many organizations working toward international peace. He opposed the isolationist movement and was a major supporter of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Moore was a consultant for the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Charter Conference in 1945, and was a strong advo-

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Hugh Moore published “The Cup Campaigner” to express the dangers of the public drinking cup. image courtesy of Hugh Moore Dixie Cup Company Collection, Special Collections & College Archives, Skillman Library, Lafayette College

cate of locating UN headquarters in Easton (wouldn’t that have been something!). Moore had developed the Hugh Moore Fund to promote peace efforts. In 1947, he became treasurer of the Citizens Committee for the Marshall Plan. Through these activities, Moore became convinced that overpopulation attributed to war and aggression, and he shifted the focus of his Fund to advocate for population control. In 1955, he published a pamphlet called “The Population Bomb” which stated his belief that availability of birth control as well as efforts to combat “illiteracy, ignorance, and misinformation” were vital to the survival of the human race. This led Moore to become an official of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. In addition, Hugh Moore also chaired the advisory committee on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the board of the U.S. Citizens Committee on NATO. call 610-258-4330 to advertise

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Hugh Moore: Paper cups, peace efforts and parks!

Hugh Moore Park Moore’s retirement from Dixie in 1957 did not diminish his interest in the community. In 1962, he donated money to the City of Easton to purchase the abandoned Section 8 of the Lehigh Canal as well as over 260 acres of land along the canal and the Lehigh River from the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. His vision was to provide “regions of beauty and quiet” for area residents and a park “that could mean as much to us as Fairmount Park does to Philadelphia.”

Moore’s support of the park exceeded $400,000 in his lifetime, and his legacy continues through the Hugh Moore Trust.

This portrait of Hugh Moore hangs in the National Canal Museum in Easton, PA. The plaque underneath the portrait reads: “Hugh Moore (1887-1972), benefactor of Hugh Moore Park and the promoter of open space, encouraged communities from Allentown to Easton to purchase canal lands.”

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Hugh Everett Moore died on November 25, 1972 in New York. An extensive obituary ran in The New York Times under the title “Hugh Moore, Industrialist, Dies; Birth Control Crusader Was 85”.

Moore had lived in Easton with his second wife Louise (m. 1947) at Slate Post Farm. One year after his death, Louise Moore deeded the 120-acre farm and its accompanying endowment to Northampton County for a public park and recreation facility. In accordance with Mr. Moore’s wishes, the facility was named Louise W. Moore Park. The park is located in Bethlehem Township and Lower Nazareth Township. A Northampton County Park Board was created and chaired by Louise Moore for ten years, overseeing the development of the farm fields into a park. Louise Moore died December 26, 2009.

[Information for this article was sourced from: Dixie Cup Collection, National Canal Museum, an affiliate of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor; Hugh Moore Dixie Cup Company Collection, 1905-2008, Special Collections & College Archives, Skillman Library, Lafayette College; and www.dixie.com/our-story.]

A advertisement for ice cream filled Dixie Cups dated September 24, 1927. image courtesy of Hugh Moore Dixie Cup Company Collection, Special Collections & College Archives, Skillman Library, Lafayette College

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Many years ago, North 3rd Street in Easton, PA was the place where millionaires such as silk industrialists and canal barons sought out space for their luxurious townhouses. Mansions such the Simon Residence (pictured above) led to the street being coined with the term Millionaire’s Row. Please support the fine merchants and professionals on North 3rd Street who continue to keep the beautiful architecture and memories of these past millionaires alive.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Ahlum Gallery 106 N. 4th Street, Easton, PA 610-923-7101

Evolvere: Mixed Media and Sculptures by Andi Grunberg thru September 8, reception July 13, 6-9pm. Open Friday & Saturday from 12-5pm (Fourth Fridays 12-9pm) & by appt. ahlumgallery.com

Alvin H. Butz Gallery ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, PA 610-332-1300

Specters of Capital thru July 23, and Lusus Naturae: Caitlin McCormack & Alex Eckman Lawn July 28-September 16. Open Monday-Wednesday 3:30-9pm, Thursday 4-11pm, Friday 4pm-12am, Saturday 11am12am, and Sunday 12-9pm. artsquest.org/arts

ARTSPACE Gallery Pocono Arts Council 18 N. Seventh Street, Stroudsburg, PA 570-476-4460

Waterscapes July 6-28, and 3rd Annual Photography Exhibition August 3-25. Open Monday-Friday 10am-4pm & Saturday-Sunday 12-4pm. poconoarts.org/artspace-gallery

Banana Factory 25 W. 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 610-332-1300

Open Spectrum: New Works from Tom D’Angelo and Susan Washington thru August 19, and Musikfest 35th Anniversary Photography Exhibition July 6-September 2. Open Monday-Friday 8am-9:30pm, Saturday & Sunday 8:30am-5pm. bananafactory.org/events/exhibitions

Allentown Art Museum 31 N. 5th Street, Allentown, PA 610-432-4333

Katagami: The Japanese Stencil thru July 28, Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present thru July 29, Who Wore Sports thru September 2, Stephen Antonakos: The Room Chapel thru April 1, 2019. Open Wednesday-Saturday 11am-4pm (3rd Thursdays 11am8pm) & Sunday 12-4pm. allentownartmuseum.org 26

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Connexions Gallery 213 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 610-250-7627

Michael Ruffo: New Work July 6-August 17, reception July 7, 7-10pm. Open Monday 12-5pm, Thursday 12-7pm, Friday 12-8pm, Saturday 11am8pm & Sunday 12-6pm. connexionsgallery.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Brick + Mortar Gallery Silk Mill Complex, Unit 101 1247 Simon Boulevard, Easton, PA 908-319-2914

Jessica Bastidas: Borderlands thru July 14; Giancarlo DeMarchi: After Forever July 21-August 11, reception July 21, 6-9pm; and Ken Jones Jr. August 18-September 15, reception August 18, 6-9pm. Open Saturday 12-6pm & by appt. brickandmortargallery.com

Charles Klabunde Gallery & Studio 73 N. 2nd Street, Easton, PA 610-252-1938

Original etchings, drawings and paintings by Charles Klabunde. Open Thursday-Saturday & 1st Sunday 125pm & by appt. CharlesKlabundeArtist.com

Communications Hall Northampton Community College 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem, PA 610-861-5300

Art as a Way of Learning thru July 27. Open MondayThursday 8am-9pm & Friday-Saturday 8am-5pm. northampton.edu/news/ncc-events-calendar.htm

The David E. Rodale and Rodale Family Galleries The Baum School of Art 510 Linden Street, Allentown, PA 610-433-0032

Izanami: Francis Beaty – The Arrival July 9-August 3, reception/installation workshop July 19, 6-8pm. Open Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm, Friday & Saturday 9am3pm. baumschool.org

Gallery at St. John’s 330 Ferry Street, Easton, PA 610-258-6119

A Visual Museum of Childhood Memories July 8-August 19. Open Sunday 11am-1pm (July 8, 11am-4pm) & by appt. stjohnseaston.org/ministries/gallery

Grossman Gallery Lafayette College 243 N. 3rd Street, Easton, PA 610-330-5361

Patrick Strzelec: Ain’t Nobody July 11-August 11, reception July 14, 4:30-6pm. Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-4:30pm, Saturday 11am-4pm & by appt. galleries. lafayette.edu

Hunterdon Art Museum 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton, NJ 908-735-8415

Multiple Ones: Contemporary Perspectives in Printmedia, Mary Oestereicher Hamill: regardisregard, and Katie Truk: Stretched Sculpture thru September 2. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11am-5pm. hunterdonartmuseum.org

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT IF Museum/Academy 107 N. 4th Street, Easton, PA 610-258-0777

Philippe ze Oakville: Artist Phil Rostek’s Fusion Assemblages thru August 30. Open Thursday-Sunday 1-4pm (Fourth Fridays 1-9pm) & by appt. facebook.com/ IFMuseumAcademy

Martin Art Gallery Baker Center for the Arts Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA 484-664-3467

Underpinnings thru August 11. Open Tuesday-Saturday 12-8pm. muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/gallery

ME-Art Studio 22 S. 3rd Street, 2nd floor, Easton, PA 908-319-4864

Gallery and working studio of Beverly MurbachErhardt featuring watercolors, acrylics and art cards.

Open Thursday-Saturday 11am-4pm. me-artstudio.com

Museum of Ethnography 22 S. 3rd Street, 2nd floor, Easton, PA 908-798-0805

Complacent No Longer (show + 8-minute film) thru September 30. Open Tuesday & Friday 11am-4pm, Saturday 11am-2pm & by appt. maryaclarity.com

Lauren Kindle Studio and Gallery 7B N. Bank Street, Easton, PA 267-247-6364

Resonance: A Solo Show of Work by Kristen Peyton July 27-29, reception July 27, 6-9pm. Open July 27, 6-9pm, July 28, 9am-1pm & 5-9pm and July 29, 12-4pm & by appt. laurenkindle.com

Nazareth Center for the Arts 30 Belvidere Street, Nazareth, PA 610-614-0404

Printmaker’s Society of the Lehigh Valley August 4-September 29. Open Thursday 6-8pm, Saturday 10am12pm & by appt.

Nurture Nature Center 518 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 610-253-4432

Unseasonable Expectations: The Art of Weather Invitational, and In Hot Water: Photographs by Harmony Hancock thru July 28. Open Wednesday 124pm, Thursday 6-9pm, Saturday 12-4pm & by appt. nurturenaturecenter.org

Ronald K. De Long Gallery Penn State Lehigh Valley 2809 Saucon Valley Road, Center Valley, PA 610-285-5261

Bethlehem Palette Club thru July 21, and Sellos de una colección: Rigo Peralta’s Cigar Band Collage Paintings & Abstract Fantoms August 27-October 13.

Open Monday-Thursday 11am-5pm, Friday 11am-3pm & Saturday 10am-2pm. lehighvalley.psu.edu/ronald-k-delong-gallery

Rotunda Gallery at City Hall 10 E. Church Street, Bethlehem, PA rotundashows@bfac-lv.org

All / Most: Mixed Media Collages by Danny Moyer thru July 19, and Printmakers Society of the Lehigh Valley Members’ Exhibition July 25-September 4, reception July 29, 2-4pm. Open Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm. bfac-lv.org/events/rotunda-gallery-shows

Sigal Museum Northampton Historical & Genealogical Society 342 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 610-253-1222

The Cat’s Meow: Lehigh Valley in the Age of Art Deco & the 1920s thru July 29. Open Wednesday-Saturday 10am-4pm (Fourth Fridays 10am-9pm) & Sunday 124pm. sigalmuseum.org

Tomi J. Petrella, Art, Etc. 9 N. 2nd Street, Easton, PA Studio/Gallery 908-303-0519

Paintings, portraits, murals, and design. Open Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 10am-1pm & by chance or appt. tomiartetc.com, #tomijpetrella 28

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Buck Hall Lafayette College 219 N. 3rd Street, Easton, PA 610-330-3311

Easton Summer Cinema: To Kill A Mockingbird July 10, Medium Cool July 17, and His Girl Friday July 24.

Country Gate Theatre 114 Greenwich Street, Belvidere, NJ 908-475-1104

Beauty and the Beast July 14-29. countrygate.org

Easton Theatre Co-op Easton, PA 610-216-5151

Bucks County Playhouse 70 S. Main Street, New Hope, PA 215-862-2121

42nd Street thru August 4, Cinderella July 25-August 4, and Million Dollar Quartet August 10-September 15. bcptheater.org

Allentown Public Theatre 127 N. 10th Street, Allentown, PA 888-895-5645

First, Act. Enjoy the first act of a classic or new play every third Thursday at Easton Public Market, 325 Northampton Street, Easton, PA, and Broadway Cabaret July 8 at the Grand Eastonian, Easton, PA. eastontheatrecoop.org

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Northampton Community College Summer Theatre 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem, PA 610-861-5493

Voices of Conscience 2018: Beyond Bars August 24. allentownpublictheatre.com

1776 July 4-15, How I Became a Pirate July 11-August 4, and Dreamgirls July 25-August 5. nccsummertheatre.org

Hunterdon Hills Playhouse 88 Route 173 West Hampton, NJ 800-447-7313 Nunsense July 10-August 22. hhplayhouse.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Shawnee Playhouse River Road, Shawnee-On-Delaware, PA 570-421-5093

2018 Cabarets thru December 20, The Pirates of Penzance thru July 8, Willy Wonka JR. thru July 21, Footloose July 20-August 12, Shawnee Original Playwright Series Finalists Jul 25-August 8, Disney’s The Lion King Experience Jr. July 27-August 11, and I Do! I Do! August 17-September 2. theshawneeplayhouse.com

Star of the Day McCoole’s Arts & Events Place 10 S. Main Street, Quakertown, PA 484-809-9228

A Midsummer Night’s Dream July 20-22, and Beauty and the Beast, Jr. August 24-26. staroftheday.org

Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA 484-664-3333

TAL: Beyond Imagination thru July 28, and How to Succeed in Business July 11-29. muhlenberg.edu/summermusictheatre

Pennsylvania Playhouse Illick’s Mill Road, Bethlehem, PA 610-865-6665

Crazy for You July 27-August 12. paplayhouse.org

Phillipsburg Area Summer Youth Theatre Phillipsburg, NJ 866-967-8167

Newsies August 2-5 at Phillipsburg High School, 1 Stateliner Boulevard, Phillipsburg, NJ. sites.google.com/ pasyt.org/site/home

Pines Dinner Theatre 448 N. 17th Street, Allentown, PA 610-433-2333

The Rat Pack Lounge July 6-19. pinesdinnertheatre.com

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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival DeSales University 2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley, PA 610-282-9455

Alice in Wonderland thru August 4, Twelfth Night thru July 15, Shakespeare in Love July 11-August 5, King Richard II July 19-August 5, Shakespeare for Kids July 25-August 4, and All’s Well That Ends Well July 25-August 5. pashakespeare.org

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Artistic Endeavors

NCC’s Summer Theatre program brings history to the stage

by Dawn Ouellette Nixon

Long before Hamilton became a smash hit on Broadway, another musical about our founding fathers wowed audiences. That production was 1776 and it won the Tony for Best Musical in 1969.

Almost 50 years later, the Northampton Community College Summer Theatre program presents 1776, with all the beautiful costumes, thrilling history, and mesmerizing music of the original Broadway production.

“It’s important that the arts are alive in the Lehigh Valley,” says Bill Mutimer, Producing Artistic Director of NCC Summer Theatre. “The arts are about community.

This show is about community. You can find great theatre here, not just at the big colleges but here too. And our show is accessible. Families can afford this show.”

1776 marries the best of New York City theatre with local talent. Ric Stoneback, who played Samuel Chase in the Broadway revival of 1776 in the 1990s, plays Ben Franklin in the NCC production. “He’s a local boy who made it big,” remarks Mutimer.

A mix of professional New York actors, NCC students and actors from other local colleges make up the rest of the cast. “It was important to us to include students from other schools so that our students can interact with them and see how they too can transfer to a four year college and continue their studies.”

Mutimer is quick to add that in today’s world, a musical like 1776 is as timely as ever with themes that our country continues to both struggle with and celebrate.

“Equality is still on our minds today. Gun laws are discussed in the play. Women’s rights. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The musical is even more relevant now than ever.”

1776 runs through July 15. Details are at ncctix.org or contact the NCC Box Office at 484-484-3412.

Patrick Mertz as Thomas Jefferson, Rick Stoneback as Benjamin Franklin and Matthew Michael as John Adams in NCC Summer Theatre’s production of 1776. photo courtesy of Northampton Community College

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Trinidad and Tobago’s Steelpan Heritage Alive In Easton article and photos by Janene Otten

On a warm Sunday evening in June families and friends gathered at Meuser Park’s Band Shell in the Borough of Wilson to welcome Caribbean Steel Rhythms to the stage.

The stage held a colorful array of Steel Drums and pannists of all ages. The far-reaching pitches of the drums sounded perfectly cool under the summer sky. Pierre Salandy, the group’s trap set drummer for the night, is also the son of the group’s founder. He clearly had a deeply ingrained respect for the instruments and was more than happy to set the audience up before each song with an insightful introduction. Musical selections were as eclectic as the group’s members, spanning decades from the ‘50s to present day and styles from Calypso to Gospel.

CSR (formerly known as the Valley Steel Drum Ensemble) was started by Selwyn Salandy, a member of Christ United Methodist Church on Easton’s South Side, as his personal contribution to his church community. A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Selwyn wanted to give back to his church family by introducing them to his birthplace’s national instrument: the steel drum. Members of the congregation were invited and encouraged to learn the technique of playing the drums, thereby bringing them together in this unique ministry. The story of the Steel Drum is a history lesson for us and for generations of people from the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago during their time as Spanish colonies, as British states and through their transition into and independent

republic in 1976. The drumming heritage played a transformative role in the lives of West Africans and French Creoles that were enslaved by the French. French planters and their slaves immigrated to Trinidad and Tobago during the French Revolution (1789) from Martinique.

Pierre explained, “The steel drums were born out of slavery. Slaves were forced to invent the steel drums because the Colonials (the British in particular) didn’t allow them to play their drums. They didn’t want to give it up so they used bamboo [sticks to beat together]. When that was banished and banned they went to pots and pans, then oil drums. Now they use sheet metal. Oil drums have a certain sound to them so if you actually get an oil drum, there’s something about it that feels authentic.”

The group had an eclectic catalog of songs arranged by Anthony Hernandez, a native of the island of Tobago in Scarborough. Anthony has had a very impressive career, playing for such luminaries as Queen Elizabeth II, Nelson Mandela and Harry Belafonte. Songs like the Celia Cruz Cuban classic “Guantanamera” and “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” written by South African musician Solomon Linda were expectedly well suited for the Steel Drums but other songs like T.V.’s “Mission Impossible” theme and the ‘50s Latin hit “La Bamba” by Ritchie Valens took on quite a different vibe. The tenor drums played the recognizable melodies with precision and we were soon up and dancing. There were bass and guitar steel drums to

A close-up of a few of the members of Caribbean Steel Rhythms playing in Meuser Park in the Borough of Wilson.

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Caribbean Steel Rhythms performing at Meuser Park in the Borough of Wilson.

keep the groove. Keeping it tight was the percussion section. The tenor and bass drums were festively painted.

“We just had these painted by our supporter Gary Lee’s Brown-Daub Kia. He painted them for us just to give us a little bit of style.”

Caribbean Steel Rhythms had style, heart and soul.

They are the only Caribbean Steel Drum group that performs local gigs regularly. With delight, Pierre advised, “We play everywhere from The Poconos to Philadelphia.

Let Easton know there’s some stuff happening here!”

Thanks, Pierre. I will!

Visit www.caribbeansteelrhythms.com and follow them on Facebook. If you want them for your next event, just give bass drummer Dawn a call at 484-294-7665.

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Irregular Eats Antonio’s Pizzeria and Restaurant with Gene Palmiter

My name first appeared in the February 2001 edition of The Irregular. I was asked to provide photographs to accompany the dining article about Victor’s on William Penn Highway by Carole Heffley and Sue Steele Miller.

Digital photography was brand new and my 2-megapixel Olympus meant that the photos didn’t have to wait on a photo lab.

In September of that year Carole Heffley and I introduced the changes that were happening at Antonio’s Pizzeria on S. 3rd Street. Antonio Crisci’s son, Pasquale (Pat), had returned to Easton after graduating from The Culinary Institute of America (in 2000) and an internship at New York’s Oceana Restaurant. A dining room was added to the pizzeria and Chef Pasquale had added fine Italian Dinners to his dad’s pizzeria menu.

We wrote again of Antonio’s fine Italian dinners in May of 2004 when Kim Hogan was writing for The Irregular. Pasquale had just announced his engagement to Cheyann Dietterich.

A photo of Antonio’s Vegetable Pie was featured in The Irregular’s 2016 Easton Christmas Book in the Irregular Eats’ “Pizza Pizzazz in Easton” article.

Pictured at left is Antonio’s antipasta salad and a medium cheese steak. Above are owners Cheyann and Pasquale (Pat) Crisci.

Seasons change. Antonio has passed and Pat and Cheyann’s children, Gabriella and Domenic, are in school.

There is new city hall across the street from the restaurant. The fine Italian dinners are as popular as ever.

With our latest series of articles being dedicated to lunches under $10, there is, of course, pizza by the slice for a couple of bucks and a California cheeseburger for $4.75, but I am most likely to make a lunch of their magnificent antipasta salad. You can see in the photo that accompanies this article, that a medium salad is certainly enough for one person. It costs about $7, as does their wide selection of medium sandwiches. Order a large 34

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Irregular Eats one only if you are sharing with a friend. Some of my favorites are the cheese steaks, the Italian hoagie, meatball, sausage with peppers, and many more.

Antonio’s Pizzeria & Restaurant is located at 114 S. 3rd Street in Easton, PA (opposite the new city hall). Call 610-253-9977.

They are open Monday thru Thursday 11am10pm, Friday 11am11pm, Saturday 12-11pm & closed Sundays. Visit them on Facebook at facebook.com/AntoniosPizzeria-and-Restaurant-150609038298874.

Above is an exterior shot of Antonio’s Pizzeria & Restaurant.

Pictured below is a sample of some of the sandwiches offered at Antonio’s and a scrumptious cheeseburger.

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known as spondylolysis. Both are common in athletes who participate in weightlifting, gymnastics or football when extensive stress is put on the spine and lower back. Spondylolysis is diagnosed when a crack or fracture shows in the lower back bones. If the fracture widens enough that the vertebra shifts, spondylolisthesis will result.

Are Bone and Joint Disorders like Arthritis Causing Your Back Pain?

Do you struggle with an aching back? If so, you are not alone. According to the Arthritis Foundation, back pain is one of the most common health problems in the United States, and 80 percent of adults report having had back pain at some point in their lives. Steven Puccio, DO, an orthopedic surgeon at Easton Hospital who specializes in spine and joint reconstruction procedures, is going to discuss some of the causes of back pain and help you identify when it’s time to take the next step.

Causes of Back Pain There can be many causes of acute and chronic back pain, including strenuous physical activity, injuries and age. But, some back pain is directly related to bone and joint disorders and deformities. Some of the more common conditions include: • Arthritis. This joint condition is caused by the breakdown of cartilage, often resulting in painful joint movement. Osteoarthritis of the spine is commonly found in the lower back and neck and involves degenerative cartilage – where the cartilage that cushions bones wears down. If the cartilage wears down enough, the everyday pressure on the joints can start to press on the nerves, creating pain and possible weakness in the arms and legs.

• Scoliosis. Scoliosis is when the spine develops an irregular curvature. Often diagnosed during growth spurts before puberty, the condition is usually mild and may be remedied with the use of a back brace. If left undiagnosed, the spine may begin to twist – cramping the space in the chest and abdominal cavity.

• Spondylolisthesis. This spinal condition stems off of another spinal injury

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When Should You Seek Medical Attention Rest, ice, heat and/or anti-inflammatory medications often bring relief to people suffering from back pain. When these steps aren’t enough, it’s important to get a thorough medical evaluation. X-rays may be taken to view the position of the vertebra and aid in the diagnosis of a bone or joint disorder. Diagnostic tests may also include blood tests and MRIs. Nonsurgical treatment may involve physical therapy and the use of a back brace. In some cases, surgical spinal fusion may be required.

A discussion I have with all of my patients is that the moment when pain affects your daily living, your interpersonal relationships with family and friends, or the ability to take part in your hobbies or activities you enjoy, that is the time that we develop a game plan. The Neck and Back Pain Treatment Center at Easton Hospital’s Forks Health and Wellness Center provides a coordinated, customized approach to treatment so that we can correct the problem, restore daily function, and keep you moving and happy.

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*****PENNSYLVANIA OFF THE BEATEN PATH

by Christine O’Toole, Globe Pequot Press ©2016, 192 pgs., paperback I normally would not recommend a travel book that is more than 1 year old, but in Ms. O’Toole’s introduction, she begins “When I think of Pennsylvania, I think green.” That is a perfect introduction to a trip anywhere in PA. In addition to these fine words, Ms. O’Toole writes for National Graphic Traveler magazine and The NY Times. Great credentials, indeed.

Plus, she has lived for periods of time in Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, among other cities on the east coast. In Pennsylvania: Off the Beaten Path, Easton is highlighted for Hugh Moore Park, The Crayola Factory and The National Canal Museum. Unfortunately, this information could use some updating.

But the book sparkles with many trivia snippets on the state that make it worth the price of having it on your bookshelf. For example, did you know that Stephen Foster’s old-timey tune “Camptown Races” may have been inspired by a popular 5-mile long horserace that used to be run between Camptown and Wyalusing? Mr. Foster was visiting his brother who lived in Towanda when he wrote the piece. Or that PA has no less than five (5) chocolate factories. “Just Born” in Bethlehem is not mentioned in the listing as it does not make chocolate products as we all know. However, Potts’ Doggie Shop in Nazareth made the book with a fine listing for its signature hot dogs. I loved reading the Trivia highlighted in shaded boxes on nearly every page. There is trivia knowledge such as “PA has eleven state parks that offer Mongolian style yurts for overnight accommodations”. Who knew? If you do get the book, be sure to check out each offering by phone, as much of the information is outdated as mentioned. The lag-time between info gathering and printing of guide books make it impossible to be 100% correct.

STRANGE BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR by Webb Garrison Jr., Cumberland House ©2002, 320 pgs., paperback What a pleasant surprise this book is. Instead of dry historical commentary, Mr. Garrison Jr. has peppered this book with some of the most ridiculous (almost laughable), tragic errors made by Generals and others during battles that cost thousands of lives. While the writing is interesting and, at times, almost comical, there is nothing comedic about the serious consequences of War, especially the War Between The States of which Mr. Garrison Jr. writes. His father, Webb Garrison, actually started the book but died after writing six of the 23 battles described. The book is equally damming of both Northern and Southern military leadcall 610-258-4330 to advertise

ers. The commentary is easy to understand and does not get bogged down in too much minute technical description as do many other books dealing with war battles. Each chapter in Strange Battles is a different historical battle in the War. Here the reader will find topics such as “Port Royal: Brothers Did Fight Brothers”; “Alabama versus Hatteras: A Thirteen-Minute Victory”; “Cold Harbor: Grant’s Worst Blunder”; and “Streight’s Raid: Never Send a Mule to Do a Horse’s Job”. As I have heard much about the Siege of Petersburg, I selected “The Crater” to read first. It’s a gem!

Subtitled “A Tragedy of Errors”, the actual siege took place in the spring of 1864 and involved the Pennsylvania 48th Infantry and Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants who was a civil and mining engineer before the War. As he was looking over the siege area one day, he thought of a plan to push the Union troops to victory after the months-long stalemate of trench warfare. He ran to General Burnside with a plan to dig UNDER the Confederate trenches and blow up their position with a load of dynamite to be exploded in the tunnel. Pleasants presented his plan and Burnside agreed; however,

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Irregular Bookshelf General Meade, Burnside’s superior officer, was silent on the matter and U.S. Grant disapproved. With Burnside’s approval even though Burnside did not have the go-ahead from either Gen. Meade or Grant, Pleasants and his (mostly) former coal miners from Schuylkill County went ahead with the plan and dug the 500+ ft. long tunnel with improvised tools and less explosives from their government than requested. It was estimated that they would need 6-tons of dynamite but they received only 4-tons to do the job, pick-axes that did not work and needed to be redesigned and short pieces of fuses which had to be spliced together to attach the charge. In the midst of their very secretive digging, Confederate Edward Porter Alexander, head of artillery opposite their position, noted something amiss in the enemy lines and surmised the scheme. The Confederates commenced to building a tunnel of their own to intercept the Union men. Pleasants spent a good deal of time in the tunnel nervously listening for the sound of Confederates digging towards his men. The tunnel was finished, the dynamite placed deep within and all that was left to do was to explode the charge.

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Pleasants had to go in the tunnel to find where the fuse fizzled out. The second attempt did work but unfortunately the Union generals did not plan what to do next and no one seemed to realize how big a crater would result from the explosion. The deep crater was a death trap for the Union men who charged in. The explosion and its aftermath had left the Union troops as much agog as it did the Confederates. What followed was an amazing bloodbath in which the Union lost many more men than the Confederates they were trying to defeat. It was a disaster. In all, Federal losses were estimated at 3,700 and Confederate losses at about 1,500. Burnside lost his commission in the aftermath and Meade was “fired” as a result and spent the rest of the War home. Pleasants lived to tell the tale but he had retreated to the back of the action once the crater exploded. Strangely, while a cease-fire was arranged for each side to retrieve and bury its dead, a band from the Union and one from the Confederates played music in turn for the troops present. A post battle photo of the crater is included in the book.

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MORE ON THE HISTORICAL VARINA DAVIS: In the last Irregular Bookshelf (June 20018) column I wrote a review on Charles Frazier’s new book Varina, a fictionalized story of the historical Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Mr. Frazier’s story left me wanting to find out about the real Varina and so I listed two biographies for further information on the subject. My Local Library supplied me with both books: First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’ Civil War by Joan E. Cashin and First Lady of the South: The Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis

by Ishbel Ross. Of the two, I liked the former First Lady of the Confederacy far better for its writing style and “linear” presentation of information. Both books lean heavily on quotes from letters written by Varina (she was a prolific writer, even smuggling letters to her many northern relatives during the War), as well as letters from her husband, Jefferson, and a host of acquaintances. Ms. Cashin does a great job of presenting the many quotes as if she were writing dialogue in some work of fiction. The true sentiments written in letters give readers the mindset of the writer (Varina) as well as shine a light on her husband and the many notable people of her acquaintance. As Jefferson Davis was both a Representative of the State of Mississippi and later Senator in Washington, Varina knew just about all the historical personages of the time. She was a close friend of two Presidents as well as having known figures such as Oscar Wilde. What she had to say of all of them is as interesting as what they said of her in their letters and remarks in the media of the day. First Lady of the Confederacy is a fascinating step back in time. Ms. Cashin has set the book up so well that I felt like I was right there overhearing the conversations and reading the letters as they were being written. Varina was a very interesting woman and I dearly hope that if Mr. Frazier’s Varina is, as rumored, made into a movie that the scriptwriters remove his fanciful fictional story of the woman and let the true Varina shine forth.

NOW BEING READ IN EASTON BOOK CLUBS: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. Warning: This book should not be read while sad or if depressed. It is described as the most depressing book in print by many reviewers and “much suffering, no redemption” as well as “uplifting”. Go figure! call 610-258-4330 to advertise

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GARDENING

The Artful Gardener article and photos by Pam Ruch It happens every year. You’re totally on top of your garden chores: weeds are under control, and plants are neat and tidy and within their allotted bounds. This year, you think, the garden will be the best ever!

And then …

A rainstorm happens, you turn your attention elsewhere for a week (or two), and what had been nearly perfect is now rampant and overgrown.

Even in early June in my garden, the peonies crashed all over their neighbors, deutzia and spirea shrubs blocked my path, false indigo grew to enormous proportions, and delphiniums toppled! Gravity rules in the garden, as elsewhere.

I was recently reminded, on a trip to the great gardens of England, that there is a trick to defying gravity in the garden. It’s all about anticipation.

We know plants will become tall and then come crashing down. We know they will require some propping up. The key is to put the props in place before they are needed, rather than try to rehabilitate plants after they fall.

At Chelsea Physic Garden, a 4-acre garden of medicinal, herbal, edible, and useful plants located along the Thames, I found myself crawling on the ground examining their inventive support systems while visitors Note the almost invisible bamboo stakes holding this delphinium support in place. around me were taking photos of beautiful roses and stunning vistas.

Sweet peas climbed elegant rustic tuteurs; wisteria rested on a ceiling made from a wire grid attached to tall, sturdy wooden posts. Delphiniums and monkshood were growing up through cloche-like domes constructed from flexible hazel branches. Sometimes all that was required was a Yshaped stick or two, artfully and sturdily placed. The gardeners at this botanical wonder of a garden have perfected the art of beautiful plant support.

I saw more of the same at Sissinghurst and at Great Dixter, two more superlative English public gardens. Granted, these sites have staffs of gardeners who get paid to make the gardens look beautiful at all times. Had I visited a month later, many of the supports would have been invisible, hidden from view by the foliage. In early June, however, the plants were just hitting their stride.

I have constructed many bamboo-and-zip tie towers over the years to support beans and tomatoes. They’re tall and elegant and add a great vertical dimension to the garden. The difference between these straight-line structures As this plant grows it will be kept from flopping by this dome-shaped support. and what I saw in England is that a bamboo tower, while effective and stylish, says, “Look at me.” In color and in form it calls attention to itself. A support made from boughs and vines says, “Look at the sturdy upright form of this aster.” It says, the person who cares for this garden is an attentive person who anticipates, and then acts creatively and thoughtfully so that the plants will be the best they can be.

Here in Pennsylvania, we can get similar results using willow, maple, or other green wood. And there’s no shortage of wild grape vine to hold the forms together. All it takes is will, time, and anticipation.

This vine structure is simple in design, and effective. By summer’s end it will create a green ceiling.

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The big question is: how do we convince ourselves that the time spent constructing these necessary supports,

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Gardening Tall flowering perennials such as New England asters, dahlias, garden phlox, helenium, filipendula, and monkshood can make or break a garden. Peonies, rambling and climbing roses, clematis, and other flowering vines can be superstars. So help them shine. And next year, your garden will be the best ever!

Horticulturist and writer Pam Ruch, caretaker of the Nurture Nature Center Urban Recycle Garden, tends gardens in the Lehigh Valley and beyond, and presents gardening and nature journaling programs throughout the region.

She explores the intricacies of nature on her website, ArtofNatureJournaling.com.

Heavy vines require sturdy tripods.

before they are necessary, is time well spent? As impressed as I was by the value of this practice, implementing it in my own garden will involve a huge mind shift. Like most gardeners, I tend to react—to weeds, to pest problems, to out-of control plants. Training ourselves to anticipate might take a bit of trickery. Here are some thoughts on how to accomplish such a shift: • Constructing these pieces, I realized, was not just a garden chore, but a craft in and of itself. The lesson here: while chores may be tedious, making art is stimulating.

• When you prune shrubs (or offer to help a friend prune), stockpile a few branches and vines that will make good supports—short, branched, sturdy twigs, flexible branches (such as willow), kiwi and grape vines are good choices. Place them near a porch or garage.

• Creating plant supports in the garage can be a rainy day activity. You can involve the kids.

• Plan ahead. Mark your calendar. Early June is the time to think about constructing plant supports.

Clematis x durandii, a non-twining type of clematis, is given gentle support using branched twigs.

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Irregular Events Ongoing: Book & Puppet Co. Free Events: Story Hour Tues.-Sat. 10:30-11:30am; Friday Pajama Puppet Show every Fri. 5:306pm, Jazz Concert with Andy Laties 1st Thurs. 7-8pm; Writers Group 3rd Thur. 7-9pm; Comics Jam 4th Sat. 4-6pm; Fractured Fables Puppet Show every Sat. & Sun. 1-2pm; Meet a Storybook Character every Sat. & Sun. 2pm; and Stitch n’ B!tch 2nd & 4th Sun. 5-8pm. 466 Northampton St., Easton, PA. Info: 484-5415379, bookandpuppet.com Chapter #14, Soc. PA Archaeology Meeting: Bring your Indian artifacts for typing, age determination. Every Thur.

7pm. Easton Area Public Library Palmer Branch, 1 Weller Place, Easton, PA. Info: Len Ziegler 908-750-4110 Cops ‘n’ Kids Reading Room Story. Every Thurs. thru Aug. 9, 2-5pm with special Arts Community of Easton events 2-4pm. Easton Community Center, 901 Washington St. (9th

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St. entrance), Easton, PA. Info: 610-250-6562, copsnkidseaston@ gmail.com, copsnkidseaston.org Easton Farmers’ Market. Every Sat. 9am-1pm thru Dec. (July 7: 266th Birthday, July 21: Zucchini 500, Aug. 4: Peach Day, Aug. 18: Tomato Day, Sept.

1: Sunflower Day). Centre Sq., Easton, PA. Info: 610-330-9942, eastonfarmersmarket.com Free Summer Sundays. Sundays 1-4pm thru Aug. 26. Moravian Historical Society’s Whitefield House, 214 E. Center St., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-759-5070, infomoravianhistoricalsociety.org Kids Create and Learn (July 11: Coral Reefs, July 18: Jellyfish, July 25: A Day at the Beach).

Weds. 1pm, ages 5-10/reg. req. ($8 or $35 for all). Nurture Nature Center, 518 Northampton St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-258-0243, Liesel@nurturenaturecenter.org Open Mic Nights. 1st Tues. of the month 6:30-8pm. Mary Meuser Memorial Library.

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1803 Northampton St., Wilson Borough, PA. Info: 610-258-3040 Quilting Club. 1st & 3rd Mon. of the month 6-8pm. Easton Area Public Library, 515 Church St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-258-2917 Science on a Sphere & SOS Explorer Touch Screen Kiosk at Nurture Nature Center.

Every Wed. & Sat. 12-4pm, Thur.

6-9pm. 518 Northampton St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-253-4432, Liesel@nurturenaturecenter.org Senior Connection, a free community senior program offering social and mental stimulation for older adults. Every Tues. & Thur. 10am-3pm. Arndt’s Lutheran Church, 1851 Arndt Rd., Forks Twp., PA, Info: 610-2533732, Nancy Walters 610-2530726, nancywalters@rcn.com Sew Others May Be Warm Knitting/Charity Group. Every Thur. 1-3pm. Easton Area Public Library Palmer Branch, 1 Weller Pl., Easton, PA. Info: 610-258-7492

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Silver Connections: Fun for Seniors. Every Tues., Wed., & Thur. 9am-1pm. Easton Area Community Center, 901 Washington St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-253-8271, Saints1@ptd.net The Writers Café. 2nd Thur. of the month 7-9pm. Easton Area Public Library Palmer Branch, 1 Weller Pl., Easton, PA. Info: glvwg.vebmeister@gmail.com July 7: Walk and Talk: Streamside along the Karl Stirner Arts Trail (KSAT). 10am-12pm/hosted by Nurture Nature Center. Meet at the 13th St. entrance to the KSAT, Easton, PA. Info: 610-253-4432, Liesel@nurturenaturecenter.org July 8: Easton Heritage Day. 11am10:30pm; fireworks 9:30pm.

Centre Sq. and Riverside & Scott Parks, Easton, PA. Info: heritageday.org Visit the Sigal Museum and all three historic houses. 1-4pm, $10. Sigal Museum NCHGS, 342

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Irregular Events July 9: Laughter Yoga. 12pm.

Phillipsburg Free Public Library, 200 Broubalow Way, Phillipsburg, NJ. Info: 908-454-3712 July 10: Family Fun Night: Sock Rockerz musical performance for all ages. 6:30-7:30pm.

Bethlehem Area Public Library, 11 W. Church St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-867-3761, bapl.org July 11: Nazareth Book Club: The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez. 6:30-8pm.

Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity, 295 E. Center St., Nazareth, PA. Info: Amy 484767-8049 July 12: Images of our Local Waterways Slideshow. 6-8pm. 518 Northampton St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-253-4432, Liesel@ nurturenaturecenter.org

Public Library South Side branch, 400 Webster St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-867-7852, bapl.org July 17: An Evening of Nature Activities.

5-7pm. Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, 400 Belfast Rd., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-746-2801, jacobsburgsp@pa.gov Tuesday Trails. 5:30-7pm.

Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, 400 Belfast Rd., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-746-2801, jacobsburgsp@pa.gov Adult Summer Reading Event - Karaoke Night. 6:30pm.

Phillipsburg Free Public Library, 200 Broubalow Way, Phillipsburg, NJ. Info: 908-454-3712 July 18: Book Forum. 1:30pm Phillipsburg Free Public Library, 200 Broubalow Way, Phillipsburg; NJ. Info: 908-454-3712 Cruise Night. 5-9pm. Downtown Easton, PA. Info: 610-250-6610, kroscioli@easton-pa.gov

July 14: 5th Annual Lehigh Valley Yoga Festival. 8am-7:30pm.

Moravian College, 1200 Main St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: lvyogafest.com

Flamenco Surf Nights At BAPL. 6-8pm. Bethlehem Area Public Library South Side branch, 400 Webster St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-867-7852, bapl.org

Historic Nazareth Walking Tour. 2pm; $7/adults, $5/ youth/srs., members free.

Moravian Historical Society, 214 E. Center St., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-759-5070, info@ moravianhistoricalsociety.org

Yankee Brass Band Concert.

6:30-7:45pm. National Canal Museum, 2750 Hugh Moore Park Rd., Easton, PA. Info: Loretta Susen 610-923-3548 x221, canals.org

Dinner on the Canal: Canal Stories & Songs. 5:30-8pm/$55.

National Canal Museum, 2750 Hugh Moore Park Rd., Easton, PA. Info: Loretta Susen 610-9233548 x221, canals.org Friends of the Delaware Canal Giving Pond 2-mile walk.

6:30pm. Giving Pond Recreation Area, 1069-1087 River Rd., Upper Black Eddy, PA. Info: 215-8622021, friends@fodc.org, fodc.org

Bethlehem Area Public Library South Side branch, 400 Webster St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610867-7852, bapl.org Classic French Films of the Sixties: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. 2-4pm. Bethlehem Area Public Library, 11 W. Church St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-867-3761, bapl.org

July 19: Destination Arts: Third Thursday. 5-8pm. Multiple Art Venues in Downtown Allentown, PA. Info: elizabethr@ lehighvalleychamber.org, downtownallentown.com

July 22: NAACP Easton Branch Freedom Fund Banquet: Standing in Our Truth w/ Keynote Speaker Melba Tolliver.

4-8pm, $65. The Eastonian, 90 Kunkle Dr., Easton, PA. Info: 610923-9443, freedomfund2260@ gmail.com, naacp-eastonpa.org

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July 20: Family Sing-Along. 3:30-4:30pm.

Easton Area Public Library, 515 Church St., Easton, PA. Info: 610258-2917

Movies on the Trail. 7-10pm.

Karl Stirner Arts Trail, Easton, PA. Info; 610-250-6612, info@ karlstirnerartstrail.org

Family Night: Stream Search.

6:30-8pm, reg. req. Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, 400 Belfast Rd., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-746-2801, jacobsburgsp@pa.gov

July 16: Music, Memoirs and Mixed Media. 5-7pm. Bethlehem Area

July 21: D.I.Y. Saturday Sessions: Shibori Tie Dye. 2-3:30pm.

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Irregular Events July 24: Palmer Adult Book Group: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. 6-7:30pm. Easton Area Public Library Palmer Branch, 1 Weller Pl., Easton, PA. Info: 610-258-7492 July 25: Family Craft Night. 6:307:15pm, reg. req. Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity, 295 E. Center St., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-759-4932 July 26: Magician Ari Paul Felber. 6:307:30pm. Bethlehem Area Public Library South Side branch, 400 Webster St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-867-7852, bapl.org July 27: Easton Out Loud: Fourth Fridays. 5-9pm. Downtown Easton, PA. Info: 610-250-6533, jo@eastonpartnership.org, eastonoutloud.com July 28: The Lost Village of Christian’s Spring. 1pm; free w/adm. or $5.

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Sigal Museum NCHGS, 342 Northampton St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-253-1222

Awareness Event. 12-4pm. Scott Park, Larry Holmes Dr., Easton, PA. Info: voicesforchange.info

Library of Nazareth and Vicinity, 295 E. Center St., Nazareth, PA. Info: Amy 484-767-8049

Hispanic Cultural Festival.

3-10pm. Scott Park, Larry Holmes Dr., Easton, PA. Info: facebook. com/festivalhispanoculturaleaston

August 6: Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory. 5:30-7:30pm.

Bethlehem Area Public Library South Side branch, 400 Webster St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-8677852, bapl.org

August 11: D.I.Y. Saturday Sessions: Mosaic Flower Pots. 2-3:30pm.

Bethlehem Area Public Library South Side branch, 400 Webster St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-8677852, bapl.org

August 7: Family Fun Night: Unplugged Games Night for all ages.

6:30-7:30pm. Bethlehem Area Public Library, 11 W. Church St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-8673761, bapl.org

Historic Nazareth Walking Tour. 2pm; $7/adults, $5/ youth/srs., members free.

Moravian Historical Society, 214 E. Center St., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-759-5070, info@ moravianhistoricalsociety.org

Adult Summer Reading Event The Sixties: The American Pop/ Rock Era. 7pm. Phillipsburg Free Public Library, 200 Broubalow Way, Phillipsburg, NJ. Info: 908454-3712

Dinner on the Canal: Caribbean Connections. 5-7:30pm/$55.

National Canal Museum, 2750 Hugh Moore Park Rd., Easton, PA. Info: Loretta Susen 610-9233548 x221, canals.org

August 8: Nazareth Book Club: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. 6:30-8pm. Memorial

Easton Laughs Annual Comedy Show. 8-10pm. Riverside Park Amphitheatre, Larry Holmes Dr., Easton, PA. Info: thelizrusso.com/ schedule.html

Dinner on the Canal: Celtic Culture Night. 5:30-8pm/$55.

National Canal Museum, 2750 Hugh Moore Park Rd., Easton, PA. Info: Loretta Susen 610-9233548 x221, canals.org July 29: Poetry Reading: Rhyme and Reason poetry. 5:30-7pm. First Moravian Church, 225 N. 10th St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-258-6317 August 4-5: Lebanese Heritage Days. Sat. 5pm-12am, Sun. 11am-10pm.

Our Lady of Lebanon Church, 44 S. 4th St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-252-5275, facebook.com/ events/176495376227476 August 5: 2nd Annual Easton Addiction

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Irregular Events August 14: 80’s Dance Party-all ages.

6:30-8pm. Bethlehem Area Public Library, 11 W. Church St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-8673761, bapl.org August 15: Flamenco Surf Nights At BAPL. 6-8pm. Bethlehem Area Public Library South Side branch, 400 Webster St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-867-7852, bapl.org August 15-19: 2018 Palmer Township Community Weekend. Wed. Movies in the Park at dusk, Thur. 6-10pm, Fri. 6pm-12am, Sat. 5pm-12am, Sun. 3-10pm.

Fairview Park, 700 Fairview Ave., Palmer Twp., PA. Info: palmertwp.com/assets/2018palmer-weekend-schedule-ofevents.pdf August 16: Destination Arts: Third Thursday. 5-8pm. Multiple Art Venues in Downtown Allentown, PA. Info: elizabethr@ lehighvalleychamber.org, downtownallentown.com Music Trivia and Challenge Hour. 5-6pm. Bethlehem Area Public Library South Side branch, 400 Webster St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 610-867-7852, bapl.org August 17: Jams on the Josiah Cruise.

5:30-6:30pm/$25. National Canal Museum, 2750 Hugh Moore Park Rd., Easton, PA. Info: Loretta Susen 610-923-3548 x221, canals.org August 21: Cruise Night. 5-9pm. Downtown Easton, PA. Info: 610-250-6610, kroscioli@easton-pa.gov Tuesday Trails. 5:30-7pm.

Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, 400 Belfast Rd., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-7462801, jacobsburgsp@pa.gov August 24: Easton Out Loud: Fourth Fridays. 5-9pm. Downtown Easton, PA. Info: 610-250-6533, jo@eastonpartnership.org, eastonoutloud.com

August 25: Easy, Beautiful Native Gardens for Small Spaces. 1-5pm, $10/reg. req. Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, 400 Belfast Rd., Nazareth, PA. Info: 610-746-2801, jacobsburgsp@pa.gov Dinner on the Canal: Locks and Locomotives. 5-7:30pm/$55.

National Canal Museum, 2750 Hugh Moore Park Rd., Easton, PA. Info: Loretta Susen 610-923-3548 x221, canals.org Full Moon Paddle. 7-9pm, $10/ reg. req. Giving Pond Recreation Area, 1125 River Rd. (PA32), Upper Black Eddy, PA. Info: Katie Martens 610-9820161, kmartens@pa.gov, events. dcnr.pa.gov Movies on the Trail. 7-10pm.

Karl Stirner Arts Trail, Easton, PA. Info; 610-250-6612, info@ karlstirnerartstrail.org August 26: Clam Jam Festival. 12-7pm.

3RD & Ferry Fish Market, 56 S. 3rd St., Easton, PA. Info: 610-8291404, thirdandferry.com/clam-jamfestival.html August 28: Palmer Adult Book Group: Mission Flat by William Landay.

6-7:30pm. Easton Area Public Library Palmer Branch, 1 Weller Pl., Easton, PA. Info: 610-258-7492

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FREE MUSIC! Live at the Falls: July 13: RFA, Aug. 10: Lehigh Valley Urban Latin Orquestra, Sept. 14: Nat Osborn Band. 5:30-9:30pm. Scott Park, Larry Holmes Dr., Easton, PA. Hosted by GEDP. Info: 610330-9947, liveatfalls.com

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Meuser Park Summer Concert Series: July 8: Pioneer Band, July 15: Nazareth Community Band, July 22: The Phat Boys, July 29: The Swing Time Dolls, Aug. 5: Hackettstown Community Band, Aug. 12: Lehigh Valley Italian American Band, Aug. 19: Easton Municipal Band, Aug. 26: The Main Street Cruisers. 6-8pm. Meuser Park, 22nd & Northampton Sts., Wilson, PA. Info: 610-258-6142, wilsonborough.org

Sculpture Garden Concert Series: July 13: Herencia Jibara, July 20: Allan Meyerson Jazz Quintet. 6-8pm. 10 E. Church St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: info@bfaclv.org, bfac-lv.org

Music in Dimmick Park Summer Concert Series: July 8: Brian Dean Moore Band, July 22: James Supra & Sarah Ayers Quartet, Aug. 18: Cunningham & Associates.

6-8pm. 570 Durham St., Hellertown, PA. Info: facebook. com/events/961874210633364

Summer in the City Music Series: July 11: Dave Fry, July 18: The Foztones, July 25: Fusion Jazz Trio, Aug. 1: Dynamic Duo, Aug. 8: Pentley Holmes, Aug. 15: Node, Aug. 22: Steve Johnson, Aug. 29: Tavern Tan. 11:45am-1:15pm. PPl Plaza, 701 Hamilton St., Allentown, PA. Info: 610-751-4929, downtownallentown.com

Phillipsburg Summer Concert Series: July 12: A Few Good Men, July 19: Johnny’s Jukebox, July 26: Cunningham & Associates, Aug. 2: Uncle Rocco, Aug. 9: The Large Flowerheads.

6-9pm. Shappell Park, 353 S. Main, St., Phillipsburg, NJ. Info: 908-454-5500

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Sounds of Summer: July 11: Naked Jake, Aug. 1: Jealous Monks, Aug. 22: Bad Company Experience. 7pm.

Forks Township Amphitheater, 500 Zucksville Rd., Forks Twp., PA. Info: 610-250-2260 forkstownship.org

Tunes at Twilight: July 5: Scott Marshall, July 12: Cunningham & Associates, July 19: Billy Bauer Band. 6-8pm.

Sun Inn Courtyard, 564 Main St., Bethlehem, PA. Info: 484-2803024, getdowntownbethlehem.com

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the Easton Heritage Edition

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the Easton Heritage Edition

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