{"id":249432,"date":"2026-07-22T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249432\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:25:07","slug":"adults-children-enjoy-dinosaur-program-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249432\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults, children enjoy dinosaur program \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published July 22. 2026 10:46AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Whitehall Township Public Library, 3700 Mechanicsville Road, hosted an exciting evening as children were invited to the Dinosaur Adventure Show. Paleontologists Mike and Roberta Straka presented their program June 23 to a packed audience of both children and adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">As paleontologists, the Strakas study all fossilized past life, such as corals, fish, mammals and plant life, but they clearly love dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Dinosaur Adventure Show is an interactive program that engages children in dinosaur discovery. Participants visualized the length of a dinosaur\u2019s tail by stretching a ribbon across the room and compared dinosaur teeth to familiar objects. Children eagerly volunteered to dig up a real triceratops bone and help assemble a dinosaur from a large cutout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Dinosaur Adventure Show is part of the public library summer reading program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">For more information, call 610-432-4339 or go to whitehallpl.org.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY JENN RAGOPaleontologist Mike Straka talks about a dinosaur skull during the Dinosaur Adventure Show presentation June 23 at Whitehall Township Public Library, 3700 Mechanicsville Road.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees listen intently during the presentation, which is part of the public library\u2019s summer reading program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 22. 2026 10:46AM Whitehall Township Public Library, 3700 Mechanicsville Road, hosted an exciting evening as children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-249432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249432","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=249432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}