“21st Century Growth and Change in the Urban Cores of the Lehigh Valley: A Community Conversation” WHEN: December 5, 2019, 6:00-8:00 pm WHERE: Sigal Museum, 342 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 18042 America’s urban landscape is changing. In this Community…
Destination Northampton County Grand opening at Sigal Museum
The weekend of November 9th, the Sigal Museum opened its long-awaited permanent exhibition “Destination Northampton County” to the public. The exhibition, funded in part by the LVEHC, chronicles and celebrates the past 75 years of local history through stories, photographs,…
Narrating Lives: Telling Stories of Ourselves and Our Community
A Reflective Statement by Professors LuAnn McCracken Fletcher and Elizabeth Ortiz, Cedar Crest College Our project, to create paired classes in audio and video storytelling in order to equip students to listen to, record interviews with, and, ultimately, tell the…
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Writers share their works on “Sense of Place” at Easton’s Book Festival
Last Summer, eight local writers escaped to the Highlights Foundation in Honesdale, PA for one week as part of the inaugural LVEHC Writing Retreat, focusing on the theme of “Sense of Place.” These writers represented a variety of levels and…
Poets, Troubadours & Troublemakers Delivers Original Music about Sense of Place in the Lehigh Valley
In the late 1990s, the Bethlehem Steel halted production on its last remaining blast funace. To help guide the community through the trauma of this change, SouthSide Bethlehem’s Touchstone Theatre created a festival called “Steel Festival, The Art of an…