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SATURDAY: Lancaster County Comes to Philly!!
Gone are the days when one would need to make the hour-and-a-half drive to Pennsylvania Dutch Country to pick up authentic handmade quilts, wooden toys, and shoofly pie. Well, gone for the next three days anyway….
Beginning tomorrow, Reading Terminal Market will be transformed into a mini Lancaster County for the 20th annual Pennsylvania Dutch Festival!
“The three-day festival will take place in the Market’s Center Court seating area on August 6th, 7th and 8th from 8 am to 5 pm and will feature handmade crafts including quilts, woodcrafts, paintings, hand braided rugs, wooden toys, and cedar chests. Traditional foods including chicken pot-pie, donuts, ice cream, pies and canned fruits and vegetables will be available.”
But the real fun begins on Saturday, when farm animals, buggies, and bluegrass are thrown into the mix. “The 1100 block of Arch Street will be closed to traffic and a petting zoo with sheep, goats, chickens, donkeys, calves, horses and pigs will fill the street. Amish buggy rides and horse drawn wagon rides around the Market, as well as country and bluegrass bands, round out the entertainment.”
So if you weren’t able to make it out to Kutztown for America’s oldest continuously operated folklife festival, all hope is not lost. Let Reading Terminal Market bring Lancaster County to you!
Written by administrator on 08/06/2009 in Blog | Event | Events | Folk Art | Food | Philadelphia
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