Published December 26. 2025 01:10PM<\/p>\n
In the spirit of celebrating America\u2019s heritage and embracing the 2026 Great Allentown Fair theme, \u201cSomething Old, Something New, FOREVER, RED, WHITE & BLUE,\u201d at the fourth annual Lehigh County Agricultural Education Day in the Agri~Plex, fourth-grade students from Ramos, Lehigh Parkway, Hays and Mosser Elementary schools, Allentown School District, participated in a life-science learning experience.<\/p>\n
The Great Allentown Fair and the Lehigh County Agricultural Society, partnered with the Lehigh County Granges, Lehigh County Farm Bureau and the Penn State Agricultural Extension and 4-H Program on the project.<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of the event held in October, students were given a take-home project, creating large red, white and blue paper quilt squares, a project made possible by The Great Allentown Fair Foundation.<\/p>\n
The student-made paper quilt squares have been mounted together to form a quilt that will be displayed at the 2026 Great Allentown Fair, Sept. 2 through Labor Day Monday Sept. 7.<\/p>\n
The project reinforces the agricultural education the students received during the event while also tying into the upcoming 250th anniversary of the formation of the United States.<\/p>\n
As the Fair prepares for its 174th year, it aims to continue honoring this historic celebration of America in meaningful and memorable ways.<\/p>\n
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOLehigh County Agricultural Society Chairmen and CEO Beverly Gruber with student-made paper quilt blocks set to be displayed at the 2026 Great Allentown Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published December 26. 2025 01:10PM In the spirit of celebrating America\u2019s heritage and embracing the 2026 Great Allentown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-71138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71138","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=71138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}