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ersions NOVEMBER Saturday, Dec. 5
Historic Bethlehem Partnership’s 23rd
38 | INDULGE • DECEMBER/JANUARY 2016 Now-Dec. 20 Annual Holiday Dinner & Auction
Click-clack Santa
This fundraiser at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks,
Hey, parents! Have your kids meet Santa on the train and 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, starts with a Benefactors
get a free treat as Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway and the Reception (tickets, $250) at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6:30
Reading and Northern Railroad offer diesel-pulled Santa p.m. by a guest cocktail reception (tickets, $200). The
Claus Special train rides in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, and event features an auction of original art, live auction, silent
sites in Schuylkill County, starting today. The dates from Jim auction, dinner and drinks. Honorees this year include Bruce
Thorpe are today (Nov. 27) through Sunday, and Dec. 5, Palmer, individual, and National Penn Bank, business.
6, 12, 13, 19 and 20. Schuylkill County dates are Dec. 5, Featured artwork is by Ben Marcune. For more information,
Pottsville; Dec. 6, Minersville; Dec. 12, Schuylkill Haven; Dec. call 610-882-0450 or visit www.historicbethlehem.org.
13, Pottsville; Dec. 19, Tamaqua, and Dec. 20, Minersville.
Round trips are 70 to 80 minutes long and depart at 10:30 Saturday, Dec. 5
a.m., 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Tickets cost $13, adults (13 Warren County Technical School Craft Fair
and up); $9, children (3-12); free, children 2 and under;
also free, one child riding with a paying adult. For more More than 150 of the area’s top crafters and artisans will
information, call 610-562-2102 or visit www.lgsry.com. display their unique hand-made items for sale from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at Warren County Technical School, 1500 Route
Nov. 28 and 29 57, Washington, N.J. On tap: Food, door prizes, bake sale
29th Annual Christmas Craft Fair and caroling. Admission is free; $1 donation suggested;
please bring items for a nonperishable food drive. For
About 350 crafters occupying more than 500 spaces more information, visit www.craftsinwarren@live.com.
will exhibit their wares from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the
Leesport Farmers Market, 312 Gernants Church Road, Dec. 5, 6 and 12, 13
Leesport. Refreshments are available. Admission Quiet Valley’s 25th Annual Old Time Christmas
and parking are free. For more information, call 610-
926-1307 or visit www.leesportmarket.com. This charming return to an earlier holiday time at the
Quiet Valley Farm, 347 Quiet Valley Road, Stroudsburg,
DECEMBER features lantern-lit tours of a 19th -century farm with
personnel in period garb, a Victorian family preparing for
Dec. 3-20 the holiday, a Christmas putz, a Nativity scene with live
Christmas City Follies XVI farm animals, a log-cabin visit, caroling led by a “school
marm,” refreshments, a gift shop and in the basement,
This classic Christmas-season mainstay in South Bethlehem the Belsnickel — a spooky Pennsylvania German character
includes a romp through merry music, holiday humor and who admonishes children to be extra good. Hours are 3-7
seasonal sentiments in Touchstone Ensemble’s annual variety p.m. Admission is $10, adults; $5, children. For more
show at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays and information, call 570-992-6161 or visit www.quietvalley.org.
2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19. Celebrate the season with The
Old Guy, Little Red, The Pajama Sisters and the intriguing Sunday, Dec. 13
Shopping Cart Ballet at the Touchstone Theatre, 321 E. Yoga Under the Sphere
Fourth St., Bethlehem. Tickets cost $25; $15 for students and
seniors, with Pay-What-You-Will-Thursdays in effect. For more Practice yoga 5:30-7:15 p.m. with an instructor from Easton
information, call 610-867-1689 or visit www.touchstone.org. Yoga under the unique illuminated Earth sphere at Nurture
Nature Center, 518 Northampton St., Easton. The $15 fee
Friday, Dec. 4 benefits the center, Easton Yoga and Easton Yoga’s Shanthi
Moonlight Memories Gala Project, which helps at-risk youth, children in foster care,
veterans and the incarcerated to heal trauma in their lives
Check out the antique cars and get to touch some of them through mindfulness and therapeutic yoga. The program
while wearing a special white glove during the “Night of the also is being held on Jan. 17. For more information, call
White Glove” Moonlight Memories Gala fundraiser 6-10 p.m. 610-253-4432 or visit www.nurturenaturecenter.org.
at the America on Wheels Museum, 5 N. Front St., Allentown.
The featured exhibit is Harmony of Form and Function —
Streamline Moderne Art Deco. Meet some of the cars’ owners
and enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and dinner provided by
local caterers. Music is by the Frank DiBussolo Group. The
cost is $85 per person or $160 per couple (museum members
pay $80 per person and $150 per couple). Please reserve
a spot by Dec. 3 by calling 610-432-4200 or visit www.
americaonwheels.org. Some tickets are available at the door.
Historic Bethlehem Partnership’s 23rd
38 | INDULGE • DECEMBER/JANUARY 2016 Now-Dec. 20 Annual Holiday Dinner & Auction
Click-clack Santa
This fundraiser at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks,
Hey, parents! Have your kids meet Santa on the train and 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, starts with a Benefactors
get a free treat as Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway and the Reception (tickets, $250) at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6:30
Reading and Northern Railroad offer diesel-pulled Santa p.m. by a guest cocktail reception (tickets, $200). The
Claus Special train rides in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, and event features an auction of original art, live auction, silent
sites in Schuylkill County, starting today. The dates from Jim auction, dinner and drinks. Honorees this year include Bruce
Thorpe are today (Nov. 27) through Sunday, and Dec. 5, Palmer, individual, and National Penn Bank, business.
6, 12, 13, 19 and 20. Schuylkill County dates are Dec. 5, Featured artwork is by Ben Marcune. For more information,
Pottsville; Dec. 6, Minersville; Dec. 12, Schuylkill Haven; Dec. call 610-882-0450 or visit www.historicbethlehem.org.
13, Pottsville; Dec. 19, Tamaqua, and Dec. 20, Minersville.
Round trips are 70 to 80 minutes long and depart at 10:30 Saturday, Dec. 5
a.m., 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Tickets cost $13, adults (13 Warren County Technical School Craft Fair
and up); $9, children (3-12); free, children 2 and under;
also free, one child riding with a paying adult. For more More than 150 of the area’s top crafters and artisans will
information, call 610-562-2102 or visit www.lgsry.com. display their unique hand-made items for sale from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at Warren County Technical School, 1500 Route
Nov. 28 and 29 57, Washington, N.J. On tap: Food, door prizes, bake sale
29th Annual Christmas Craft Fair and caroling. Admission is free; $1 donation suggested;
please bring items for a nonperishable food drive. For
About 350 crafters occupying more than 500 spaces more information, visit www.craftsinwarren@live.com.
will exhibit their wares from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the
Leesport Farmers Market, 312 Gernants Church Road, Dec. 5, 6 and 12, 13
Leesport. Refreshments are available. Admission Quiet Valley’s 25th Annual Old Time Christmas
and parking are free. For more information, call 610-
926-1307 or visit www.leesportmarket.com. This charming return to an earlier holiday time at the
Quiet Valley Farm, 347 Quiet Valley Road, Stroudsburg,
DECEMBER features lantern-lit tours of a 19th -century farm with
personnel in period garb, a Victorian family preparing for
Dec. 3-20 the holiday, a Christmas putz, a Nativity scene with live
Christmas City Follies XVI farm animals, a log-cabin visit, caroling led by a “school
marm,” refreshments, a gift shop and in the basement,
This classic Christmas-season mainstay in South Bethlehem the Belsnickel — a spooky Pennsylvania German character
includes a romp through merry music, holiday humor and who admonishes children to be extra good. Hours are 3-7
seasonal sentiments in Touchstone Ensemble’s annual variety p.m. Admission is $10, adults; $5, children. For more
show at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays and information, call 570-992-6161 or visit www.quietvalley.org.
2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19. Celebrate the season with The
Old Guy, Little Red, The Pajama Sisters and the intriguing Sunday, Dec. 13
Shopping Cart Ballet at the Touchstone Theatre, 321 E. Yoga Under the Sphere
Fourth St., Bethlehem. Tickets cost $25; $15 for students and
seniors, with Pay-What-You-Will-Thursdays in effect. For more Practice yoga 5:30-7:15 p.m. with an instructor from Easton
information, call 610-867-1689 or visit www.touchstone.org. Yoga under the unique illuminated Earth sphere at Nurture
Nature Center, 518 Northampton St., Easton. The $15 fee
Friday, Dec. 4 benefits the center, Easton Yoga and Easton Yoga’s Shanthi
Moonlight Memories Gala Project, which helps at-risk youth, children in foster care,
veterans and the incarcerated to heal trauma in their lives
Check out the antique cars and get to touch some of them through mindfulness and therapeutic yoga. The program
while wearing a special white glove during the “Night of the also is being held on Jan. 17. For more information, call
White Glove” Moonlight Memories Gala fundraiser 6-10 p.m. 610-253-4432 or visit www.nurturenaturecenter.org.
at the America on Wheels Museum, 5 N. Front St., Allentown.
The featured exhibit is Harmony of Form and Function —
Streamline Moderne Art Deco. Meet some of the cars’ owners
and enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and dinner provided by
local caterers. Music is by the Frank DiBussolo Group. The
cost is $85 per person or $160 per couple (museum members
pay $80 per person and $150 per couple). Please reserve
a spot by Dec. 3 by calling 610-432-4200 or visit www.
americaonwheels.org. Some tickets are available at the door.
