ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The countdown has begun.<\/p>\n
We are just a month away from the 250th birthday of our nation.<\/p>\n
There are lots of ways to learn about our country’s fight for independence, including a new exhibit in Allentown.<\/p>\n
At the Allentown Art Museum, Revolution Retold is a look at our nation’s patriotic past.<\/p>\n
“How Americans have understood their history, what they have focused on, what stories they have told, and how all of that has changed over time,” said Associate Curator Claire McRee.<\/p>\n
The exhibit showcases decorative and keepsake items from 1826-2009.<\/p>\n
“So we have printed textiles with Washington, we have embroidery, embroidery patterns featuring Washington, we have a flask with Washington’s face on it, and all of this just speaks to the intense excitement and around Washington,” said McRee.<\/p>\n
If you’re counting, you’ll find our first president 72 times.<\/p>\n
But not everything is about George Washington.<\/p>\n
There’s also an appearance by the other George in our Revolutionary War history, King George.<\/p>\n
And in several pieces by artist Faith Ringgold, the fight for freedom is contrasted with fights that were yet to come.<\/p>\n
“And specifically, juxtaposes scenes of the freedoms that Americans were demanding in the Revolutionary era, and contrast those with black American struggles to gain the same freedoms,” said McRee.<\/p>\n
You’ll also see an icon of Americana and a piece of Allentown history if you look close enough at a quilt featured in the gallery.<\/p>\n
“You can see these little Liberty Bell motifs that are framed against the star, the Liberty Bell was really an icon for fundraising during the First World War,” said McRee.<\/p>\n
Revolution Retold runs through October 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The countdown has begun. We are just a month away from the 250th birthday of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-211969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211969","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=211969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}