Berks County will host an AmericanaFest next month to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n
The free event, which will take place June 20 at the Berks County Heritage Center, will feature living history exhibits, a petting zoo, museum tours, demonstrations and music performances.<\/p>\n
Starting at 11 a.m., visitors can participate in living history exhibits, make crafts, stop by the Swartz\u2019 Roadside Farm petting zoo, take a wagon ride, learn about the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry and get photographs taken with technology straight out of the 1800s.<\/p>\n
Tours of the Gruber Wagon Works will be given at noon and 2:30 p.m. The Canal Museum and Epler\u2019s Schoolhouse will be open all day.<\/p>\n
Lectures from Native American storyteller Darius Puff will take place at 11:30 a.m., and historian Dwight Halderman will speak at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Several food trucks will be on-site throughout the day.<\/p>\n
The festival will also include four musical performances from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the grounds of the heritage center, featuring artists performing Americana music with a historic covered bridge as the backdrop.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dave Kline will host a Blues to Bluegrass workshop at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Valley Vision will perform folk music at 4:45 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wood Belly will perform bluegrass tunes at 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Corey Arceneaux and the Zydeco Hot Peppers will perform creole music at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
For more information about AmericanaFest and a complete listing of upcoming 250th celebration events, check out the Facebook page @BerksCountyParks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County will host an AmericanaFest next month to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,289,706],"class_list":["post-203713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203713","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=203713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}