{"id":168539,"date":"2026-04-17T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168539\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:43:35","slug":"catasauqua-festival-honoring-declaration-of-independence-signer-george-taylor-returns-this-weekend-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168539\/","title":{"rendered":"Catasauqua festival honoring Declaration of Independence signer George Taylor returns this weekend | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CATASAUQUA, Pa. &#8211; A free outdoor festival honoring a signer of the Declaration of Independence is coming back to Catasauqua, Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>Colonial Day Festival returns to the George Taylor House in Catasauqua on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Easton Cemetery said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The festival honors George Taylor, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, with Revolutionary War living history, colonial crafts, and hands-on activities for all ages, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p>Historic house tours will be offered at a discounted rate of $5 per person.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Colonial Day Festival.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e230a25fcc7.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"250\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Participating George Taylor Trail Organizations:<\/p>\n<p>Historic Easton Cemetery<\/p>\n<p>Parsons-Taylor House\/D.A.R.<\/p>\n<p>Northampton County Archives<\/p>\n<p>Easton Area Public Library\u2019s Marx Room<\/p>\n<p>The Durham Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is presented as part of regional America 250 commemorative programming.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is free. Donations are appreciated, according to the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATASAUQUA, Pa. &#8211; A free outdoor festival honoring a signer of the Declaration of Independence is coming back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,4000,8469,75840,20960,75839,75841,433,19372],"class_list":["post-168539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-america-250","tag-catasauqua","tag-colonial-day-festival","tag-declaration-of-independence","tag-george-taylor","tag-historic-house-tours","tag-lehigh-county","tag-revolutionary-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168539","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=168539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}