Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/09/2014
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Sigal Museum
Category(ies)
10 am – 12 pm Children’s mini workshops on Pa-German barn signs, with Larry Brown, art teacher,
free, on the sidewalk.
10 am – 4 pm PEEPabration! – PEEP-centered activities for kids of all ages. PEEPmobile on site.
1 pm “There’s a Cow in My Backyard: The Koehler Family of Bethlehem Township,” Paul Ricciardi,
Golden Pepper Productions documentary. Members of the Koehler family, whose farm was
established in the mid-18th century, have literally seen Bethlehem Township build up around
them. Cornfields and cattle pastures are now surrounded by housing developments and busy
roads. How has the family adapted? How has the farm endured for nine generations? How has
everyone learned to coexist? The film explores the answers.
2-4 pm Hand-spinners Mary McGuire and Jean Sattler will interact with visitors explaining spinning
techniques, old and new, and the ways present-day spinners put this skill to use. They will
describe the virtues of wool fibers in their demonstration.
4 pm Signing of the Treaty of Renewed Friendship with the Lenape Nation of PA. The public is
welcome to the signing. As they journey down the river, the Lenape will carry a Treaty of
Renewed Friendship to be signed by the Lenape and a number of organizations: environmental
groups, churches, historical societies, and sincerely committed individuals, who wish actively to
support the Lenape and to partner as caretakers of the traditional Lenape homeland and each
other.