Published December 28. 2025 10:10AM<\/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 and BLUE,\u201d the fourth annual Lehigh County Agricultural Education Day was held recently inside the Agri~Plex.<\/p>\n
Fourth-grade students from Ramos, Lehigh Parkway, Hays and Mosser Elementary schools in the Allentown School District participated in interactive stations designed to provide hands-on, life-science learning experiences.<\/p>\n
The Great Allentown Fair and the Lehigh County Agricultural Society, passionate supporters of local agriculture, partnered with the Lehigh County Granges, Lehigh County Farm Bureau and the Penn State Agricultural Extension and 4-H Program to bring this joint effort to life, offering city students a fun and educational taste of the countryside.<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of this event, students were given a special take-home project, creating large red, white and blue paper quilt squares, a project made possible by The Great Allentown Fair Foundation.<\/p>\n
These student-made paper quilt squares have been mounted together to form a full, large-scale quilt that will be proudly displayed at the 2026 Great Allentown Fair taking place Sept. 2-7, 2026.<\/p>\n
This creative 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
Be sure to keep a lookout for the students\u2019 quilt display in Agri~Plex at the 2026 Great Allentown Fair.<\/p>\n
Lehigh County Agricultural Society Chairman, CEO Beverly Gruber celebrates student creativity with paper quilt blocks set to appear at the 2026 Great Allentown Fair.PHOTO COURTESY of THE GREATALLENTOWN FAIR<\/p>\n
The Press gets a sneak peek at the patriotic quilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published December 28. 2025 10:10AM In the spirit of celebrating America\u2019s heritage and embracing the 2026 Great Allentown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-72050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72050","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=72050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}