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ersions august It’s a seven-day celebration of farmers, Sunday, Sept. 20
gardeners, homemakers, fun, food and Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk
46 | indulge • august/september 2015 Through Aug. 16 music featuring rides, games, concerts,
Musikfest agricultural and craft displays and The Lustgarten Foundation’s family
more. This year’s musical acts include friendly walk through the Lehigh
It’s the 32nd celebration of all things Def Leppard, Styx and Tesla on Sept. 1; Parkway will raise money for pancreatic
music, and the Bethlehem festival will Little Big Town with Ashley Monroe on cancer research and heighten awareness
feature more than 325 acts this year. Sept 2; Carrie Underwood with Josh Dorr of the disease, and 100 percent of every
Headliners include The Flaming Lips, on Sept. 3; Eric Church with The Lone donation goes directly toward pancreatic
Duran Duran, O.A.R., Jerry Seinfeld, Bellow on Sept. 4; deadmau5 on Sept cancer research. For more information
Reba, ZZ Top and 3 Doors Down. For 5; and Meghan Trainor on Sept. 6. For and to register call 866-789-1000 or
more information, call 610-332-1300 more information call 610-433-7541 or visit www.lustgarten.org.
or visit www.musikfest.org. visit www.allentownfairpa.org.
Sept. 25-27
Through Aug. 23 Through Sept. 7 Celtic Classic
William Baziotes: Surrealist National Geographic Presents:
Watercolors Earth Explorers The 27th Annual Celtic Classic will
have multiple stages of continuous
This special exhibit in The Allentown Art This feature exhibition will appear for entertainment including Across the
Museum’s Payne Hurd Gallery focuses the first time in the northeastern United Pond, the ever popular Seamus Kennedy,
on Pennsylvania native William Baziotes, States at the Da Vinci Science Center. Glengarry Bhoys, Burning Bridget
who was raised in Reading. Baziotes’ Visitors will be transported to the wildest Cleary, Blackwater and more. There
body of work combines Abstract places on the globe — including polar will be Celtic games (the U.S. National
Expressionism and Surrealism. He was regions, oceans, rain forests, mountains, Highland Athletic Championships); The
a contemporary of Jackson Pollock caves and savannas — while introducing Celtic Classic Invitational Pipe Band
and Robert Motherwell and taught at visitors to the explorers who live these Competition; The “Showing of the Tartan”
the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of unparalleled adventures and bring their Parade; a haggis competition; a whiskey
Modern Art, Hunter College, and New discoveries to life. Daily from 10 a.m. to tasting event; the 17th annual Celtic
York University. “I want my pictures to 5 p.m. Information: 484-664-1002 or Classic Fiddle Competition; a craft tent
take effect very slowly,” the artist wrote www.davincisciencecenter.org. for children; and a diverse marketplace
in 1947, “to obsess and haunt.” For of Celtic crafts, merchandise and
more information, call 610-432-4333 or Through September collectibles. Hours: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.,
visit www.allentownartmuseum.org. National Canal Museum Sept. 25; 9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Sept.
canal boat rides and more 26; and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sept. 27.
Through August For more information, call 610-868-
Eras of Elegance at Take a ride on Pennsylvania’s only mule- 9599 or visit www.celticfest.org.
the Sigal Museum drawn canal boat, the Josiah White II
through Section 8 of the Lehigh Canal October
Relive the glamour of the Lehigh Valley in Hugh Moore Park, 2750 Hugh Moore
from the Colonial Era to the Roaring Park Road, Easton. The authentically- Through Oct. 1
’20s at Easton’s Sigal Museum, 342 dressed crew will guide you through Look Who’s Truckin’ In
Northampton St. “Eras of Elegance the story of the anthracite canals and
1750-1920s” features more than the people who worked and lived on This America on Wheels exhibit
35 gowns and accessories from the them while the mules tow you on a showcases classic, customized and rare
collection of the Northampton County 40-minute trip through serene scenery pickup trucks from the 1920s through
Historical & Genealogical Society. The to the Locktender’s House and Guard the 1980s that were used for work
exhibit is included in regular museum Lock No. 8. The National Canal Museum and play. The exhibit details how the
admission, which costs $7 for adults also hosts dinner cruises throughout trucks’ design — and manufacturers’
and $5 for children 3 – 12. The the summer, reservations required, as marketing — evolved over the years.
exhibit runs through August. For more well as children's educational programs. In the Changing Exhibits Gallery is a
information call 610-253-1222 or visit Costs vary. For more information call complementary display of automotive
sigalmuseum.org. 610-923-3548 or visit canals.org. art by Nancy Forman showcasing pickup
trucks. Information: 610-432-4200 or
september americaonwheels.org.

Sept. 1- 7
The Great Allentown Fair

The Great Allentown Fair returns for the
163rd time since its inception in 1852.
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