SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Visitors gathered at the Scranton Iron Furnaces for the 17th annual Arts on Fire Festival, a free, weekendlong event celebrating art, heritage, industry and community.<\/p>\n
Hosted by the Anthracite Heritage Museum, the yearly festival features activities, vendors and hands-on experiences such as blacksmithing and metal pouring. Organizers say the event grew out of an effort to bring new energy to the historic site.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had this as our historic site for a long time, but some folks who are really into blacksmithing and all that and sculpture, Keystone College, they were like \u2018hey we should do something exciting here.\u2019 So, they said, \u2018let\u2019s do an iron pour.\u2019 And they used to have a bonfire, they still did that, but they came together and they said \u2018want to do this?\u2019 and we said yes and the rest is history,\u201d said Anthracite Heritage Museum educator, Nicole Negron.<\/p>\n
Set against the backdrop of the city\u2019s old iron furnaces, the festival aims to honor Scranton\u2019s manufacturing history and immigrant heritage while showcasing Northeastern Pennsylvania arts and culture. Attendees said they are already excited to come back next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Visitors gathered at the Scranton Iron Furnaces for the 17th annual Arts on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-213305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213305","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=213305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}