{"id":323403,"date":"2026-11-08T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323403\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:16:13","slug":"downtown-nazareth-steps-into-the-screen-transforming-into-stars-hollow-for-the-day-nazareth-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323403\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Nazareth steps into the screen, transforming into Stars Hollow for the day | Nazareth Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAZARETH, Pa. &#8211; On Saturday, Gilmore Girls fans stepped into the beloved show as Downtown Nazareth transformed into Stars Hollow for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The town-wide event brought together more than 50 downtown businesses, community organizations, vendors, and food trucks for a full day inspired by the series.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors enjoyed a Gilmore Girls character look-alike contest, dance-a-thon, trivia, live entertainment, strolling guitarists, and various surprises that made Nazareth feel like a corner of Stars Hollow for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Several businesses joined in on the fun with Gilmore Girls-inspired merchandise, themed menus, food and drinks, activities, specials, photo opportunities, and creative offerings.<\/p>\n<p>The newly formed Nazareth Downtown Business Association hosted the 2026 event as part of its mission to support and strengthen Nazareth&#8217;s business community through collaboration, promotion, events, and initiatives that encourage people to shop, dine, explore, and spend time downtown.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAZARETH, Pa. &#8211; On Saturday, Gilmore Girls fans stepped into the beloved show as Downtown Nazareth transformed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,5750],"class_list":["post-323403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-nazareth-northampton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323403","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=323403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}