March 15th, 2008  - Easter on the Farm, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

For immediate release. Please announce the following not-for-profit event:

EASTER ON THE FARM

Saturday March 15^th, 2008

10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Presented by the

Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center

At Kutztown University

Herr Easter Rabbit, our harbinger of Spring and warm sunny skies, will visit the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University for EASTER ON THE FARM, March 15^th, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Interesting and fun activities are planned for every visitor to this event.

The Freyberger School Marm will present a program featuring Pennsylvania German Easter customs and traditions, a book reading of “The Egg Tree” by Katherine Milhous. Betty Naftzinger will be singing and Country Hank and Friends will perform their music as part of the program in the schoolhouse.

Artisans in the Farm House will be demonstrating and offering traditionally decorated Easter eggs, fabric crafts, Bees-wax candles and other items, Folk-Art decorated items, and there will be samples of Pennsylvania Dutch Spring-time foods.

Fastnachts will be made and sold in the Summer Kitchen. Outdoors, children may make traditional onion-skin dyed eggs, a paper Easter basket and participate in an egg hunt. Everyone will help decorate an old-fashioned Egg Tree on the lawn. There will be nanny goat and her kids and traditional farm activities. Both of the two log cabins will be open for tours. The Pennsylvania German Society will be in the Zimmerman Log Cabin and have many of their publications on display and available for purchase. Members of the Reading Berks Guild of Craftsmen will have their wares for display and sale in the Corrigan Log Cabin.

The ladies of the Old-Time Plow Boys will be offering delicious food and beverages for sale throughout the day.

There will be something for everyone at Easter on the Farm. Admission and Parking are free. The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center is located on Luckenbill Road off Main Street in Kutztown. Luckenbill Road is almost diagonally across from the Kutztown Airport. For more information contact us at (610) 683-1589, email us at heritage@kutztown.edu or visit our website at  http://www.kutztown.edu/community/pgchc.

Thank you for your help in spreading the word to those who can help!

POC: If you have any questions feel free to contact the Heritage Center at (610) 683-1589 or email me at heritage@kutztown.edu

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