{"id":102511,"date":"2026-02-01T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102511\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:57:07","slug":"clarks-summit-festival-of-ice-celebrates-22-years-with-patriotic-ice-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102511\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarks Summit Festival of Ice celebrates 22 years with patriotic ice sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLARKS SUMMIT, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Crystallized in patriotic detail, the Clarks Summit Festival of Ice marked its 22nd year downtown, celebrating 250 years of freedom and American spirit.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme was &#8216;The American Dream: Carved in Ice. The weekend-long festival showcased more than 60 hand-carved ice sculptures lining State Street.<\/p>\n<p>Standing proudly, the sculptures stood outside of local businesses and restaurants. <\/p>\n<p>Along with the sculptures, the festivities brought local food and drinks, as well as different activities throughout the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>As visitors bundled up to admire the ice sculptures, one family explained why they chose to venture out despite the cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just came to see the ice<\/p>\n<p> sculptures and get some breakfast, and check everything out,\u201d said Amanda Butchko. <\/p>\n<p>They also pointed out some of their favorite sculptures from the display.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the train that\u2019s over there,\u201d said Ryder Knoll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Silver-Spoon-Diner-100055149883321\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Silver Spoon Diner<\/a> one, that\u2019s a piece of pie,\u201d said Hunter Knoll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Riveter one down there, that one was pretty neat,\u201d said Butchko.<\/p>\n<p>The festival wrapped up on February 1, with a Firefighters&#8217; Ice Carving Competition and a Chili Cook-Off to close out the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLARKS SUMMIT, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Crystallized in patriotic detail, the Clarks Summit Festival of Ice marked its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-102511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}