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Sigal Ready to Mark Its Third Birthday
Museum offers free admission, plus special events, for its third birthday.
Although it focuses on Northampton County's centuries-old past, the Sigal Museum is still basically an infant.
Next weekend, the Sigal will celebrate its third year by giving a gift: free admission to the museum on Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11.
That's just part of the celebration, which includes a number of events all weekend:
- Saturday, 10 a.m: Parade from the Easton Farmers' Market to the museum, followed by an opening ceremony, and cake.
- Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m: A fraktur workshop (a form of Pennsylvania German folk art) for kids and adults.
- Saturday, noon to 3 p.m: Storyteller and historian John Moore will portray a number of characters, including Edward Marshall, the infamous “Walking Purchase” walker (and ancestor of Moore), a Native American gardener, a hunter-fisherman and a European trader with local Lenape Indians.
- Saturday, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m: Jean Sattler will demonstrate the art of sheep to shawl spinning.
- Sunday, 2 p.m: The third annual "Fashion Throughout History." This year's theme is “Fashion Rationed – American Styles of WWI and WWII," and focuses on how the wars, and the shortages that came with them, influenced clothing styles.
Throughout the weekend, the museum will be showing—thanks to Lou Reda and the History Channel—Constitution Minutes, a series of PSAs broadcast to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.
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