Heritage Highlights
Written by PA Heritage Staff in the Heritage Highlights category and the Summer 1980 issue Topics in this article:Heritage Highlights is a list of forthcoming exhibits, events and programs at PHMC sites and other statewide historical organizations.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford
- July 5-6, 1980: Military Demonstrations
Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeannette
- July 11-13, 1980: Displays and Demonstrations of Arts and Crafts
Conrad Weiser Homestead, Womelsdorf
- Aug. 2, 1980: Tulpehocken Historical Settlement Society’s Family Festival
Curtin Village, Howard
- July 5, 1980: Curtin Village Day – 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
- July 6, 1980: Workers’ and Descendants’ Reunion – 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Daniel Boone Homestead, Birdsboro
- June 6-8, 1980: Brigade of the American Revolution
- June 13-15, 1980: Youth Encampment
Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata
- June 28-Aug. 31, 1980: Vorspiel – Every Saturday Evening (Tours at 6:30 and 8:15 P.M., Craft Demonstrations from 7:15 to 9:00 P.M., Performances at 9:00 P.M.)
French Azilum, Towanda
- June 21-22, 1980: Antique Car Show – Annual Arts and Crafts Show and Sale
- July 13, 1980: Bastille Day
Nathan Denison House, Forty Fort
- June 22, 1980: Children’s Day
Old Economy Village, Ambridge
- June 14-15, 1980: Kunstfest – 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Pennsylvania Farm Museum, Landis Valley
- June 7-8, 1980: Craft Days
- June 17-20, 1980: Institute of Pennsylvania Rural Life and Culture
Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, Galeton
- July 4-5, 1980: Bark Peeler’s Convention
Pennsylvania Military Museum, Boalsburg
- Aug. 9, 1980: Arts and Crafts Fair
Pottsgrove Mansion, Pottstown
- June 7, 1980: June Fair
Tuscarora Academy, Mifflintown
- Aug. 24, 1980: 10th Anniversary – 2 P.M.
William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg
- Jun. 1980: Changing Exhibits
- Born to be Free – The American Eagle as Symbol
- Famous Mineral Localities
- Harrisburg Arts Festival, Closes June 22
- Meteorites: Remnants of Our Cosmic Beginning
- Carl Sundberg Enamels – Contemporary Optical Art
- Woodworks: Cooking and Eating Utensils
- Arts in Pennsylvania: Issues for the ’80s, Closes June 8
- Jul. 1980: Changing Exhibits
- Born to be Free – The American Eagle as Symbol
- Famous Mineral Localities
- Meteorites: Remnants of Our Cosmic Beginning, Closes July 20
- Carl Sundberg Enamels – Contemporary Optical Art, Closes July 27
- Threads of life-Textile Costume Exhibition, Opens July 26
- Woodworks: Cooking and Eating Utensils, Closes July 13
- Aug. 1980: Changing Exhibits
- Born to be Free – The American Eagle as Symbol
- Famous Mineral Localities, Closes Aug. 3
- Gem Butterflies – Artistry of John Rex, Opens Aug. 9
- Geology of Gold, Opens Aug. 2
- Pennsylvania Decoys – Duck Decoys from the Daniel Seiverling Collection, Opens Aug. 2
- Threads of Life – Textile Costume Exhibition
- Terry Wilde Photographer, Opens Aug. 9
Other Associations
Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
- Through July 11, 1980: Nineteenth Century Photography in Philadelphia
The Moravian Archives, Bethlehem
- June 16-2, 1980: Annual German Script Seminar
Old Bedford Village, Bedford
- July 4-6, 1980: Annual Crafts Festival – 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.