The Daniel Boone Homestead in Berks County will kick off its 2026 visitation season by hosting a living history event on Sunday, March 8, to celebrate Pennsylvania’s (PA) 345th birthday.<\/p>\n
“That’s where Pennsylvania gets its name,” noted Brad Kissam, a board member with the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates. “From Penn’s woods, which is Pennsylvania. So, Penn, Sylvania means woods.”<\/p>\n
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At the Daniel Boone Homestead in Birdsboro, Exeter Township, living historians and museum interpreters bring to life the stories of the legendary pioneer Daniel Boone and interpret life circa 1700.<\/p>\n
“The men were outside hunting, growing crops, doing the blacksmith, things like that,” said Diane Krueger, a board member with the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates, to WFMZ. “The women were in here cooking all day, doing the wash, keeping the house clean, growing things in the garden. So, it was a tougher life back then.”<\/p>\n
On Sunday, March 8, visitors to the site will be able to step back in time to witness demonstrations and activities that include blacksmithing, spinning, open-hearth cooking, colonial toys and games, gunsmithing, and quill pen writing. Visitors will also be able to tour the Bertolet Log House and the Boone House at the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Daniel Boone Homestead in Berks County will kick off its 2026 visitation season by hosting a living…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-133572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133572","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=133572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}