BIRDSBORO, Pa. – We’re turning back the clock Wednesday morning to get a glimpse at life during the colonial period in honor of Pennsylvania’s birthday. The state is turning 345 years old!<\/p>\n
69 News Reporter Rose Itzcovitz was at the Daniel Boone Homestead in Birdsboro<\/a> with a preview of the celebrations to come.<\/p>\n An event this Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. will celebrate William Penn getting a land grant from King Charles II for\u00a0Pennsylvania in 1681. Attendees will get to see historical demonstrations such as blacksmithing, gunsmithing, and open-hearth cooking.<\/p>\n Sunday’s celebration will also feature quill pen ink writing.<\/p>\n Gunsmithing demonstrations will also be featured at the\u00a0Daniel Boone Homestead during its celebration in June honoring America’s 250th birthday.\u00a0Daniel Boone learned how to hunt and trap in\u00a0Pennsylvania when he was a child. He lived here for about 16 years.<\/p>\n For more information, people can go to the homestead’s website<\/a> and Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRDSBORO, Pa. – We’re turning back the clock Wednesday morning to get a glimpse at life during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,8491,3705],"class_list":["post-129360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-southern-berks-county","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129360","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=129360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}