More people and photos from my slight detour off Pennsylvania Route 73 in Berks County to visit the Kutztown Folk Festival.
All the stickers plastered on the suitcase and guitar cases, right next to the Hoedown Stage caught my eye. Singer songwriter Alicia Keister and guitarist Jason Shaffer of Harrisburg were lost, looking for the Children's Theater where they would perform later, and the tent of Butch Imhoff's Acoustic Roadshow. Keister has a new CD out and plays coffee-shops and smaller venues, "because we're mostly acoustic." Imhoff is also bringing his roadshow to Musikfest in Bethlehem next month, where Keister will be among the more than 300 performers from across the country and around the globe, on 13 different indoor and outdoor stages (nine of the them free).
Chip Buck moved in for a closeup of his nephew visiting from New Jersey, when the goat moved in even closer. Now that the festival is over, you can go to the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at nearby Kutztown University. They have a museum, and a year-round program dedicated to the preservation of "Pennsylvania Dutch" history, folklore, and traditions. Also Pennsylvania's official travel and tourism site has a "Fairs and Festivals" search function. Look for it under the "Arts and Entertainment" pull down menu. I'll be back to Route 73 on my next post.
Comments (3)
Hey Tom! Have some waffles & ice cream for me. Don't pass up the apple butter, either.
Posted by jennifer musser-metz | July 9, 2007 3:47 PM
Posted on July 9, 2007 15:47
Tom, Can I come with? I LOVE roadtrips and roadside curiosities (esp. what I call "roadside gargantua." A friend at Va Tech gave me your link, knowing how much I love folklore, photography and travel (a la Least Heat Moon). Happy Trails! http://ils.unc.edu/~beasb/SoL.html
Brenda in Beaufort, SC
p.s. the URL is from Y2K--a library school project. My Liberty Collection has now reached critical mass with a Liberty Room + all my cucina liberties in the kitchen. Look at my latest Liberty project: 1 of Beaufort's 31 mermaids on parade: http://beaufortcountyarts.com/merweb/gallery/mergallery24.html
Posted by Brendagale Beasley | July 18, 2007 8:43 AM
Posted on July 18, 2007 08:43
Thanks Brenda, the Liberty project is great. At the Liberty Bell here in Philadelphia is a display of plastic, glass, porcelain, and printed bell replicas - even on pats of butter.
And I compiled a similar virtual "collection" last year in honor of Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday. I shot more than 500 photos of all things Franklin in the Philadelphia region.
http://inquirer.philly.com/rss/News/ben/default.asp
The link has a zoom function so you can enlarge sections to see individual images, like the Ben statue sitting on a park bench on the University of Pennsylvania campus and the white flower named for him, Franklinia alatamaha.
Posted by TomG | July 18, 2007 9:42 AM
Posted on July 18, 2007 09:42