Educational
Middle Creek – Raptors Over the Ridge
Middle Creek Visitors Center 100 Museum Rd, Stevens, PA, United StatesRaptors Over the Ridge at the visitor center at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area.
Young Villagers Colonial Workshop
Alexander Schaeffer Farm Schaefferstown, PA, United StatesHistoric Schaefferstown presents - Young Villagers Colonial Workshop Children entering grades 4-7 can learn about early America. Get hands-on experience with flax, fraktur art, tin punching, wooden toys, cornhusk dolls, penny rugs, honey making, cooking, baking, and farm nature walks.
WWII Encampment
Alexander Schaeffer Farm Schaefferstown, PA, United StatesHistoric Schaefferstown presents - WWII Weekend The Farm becomes a World War II infantry encampment. Live battle re-enactments, displays, demos, and tours of the bivouac areas. Restrooms and food available.
Peacemaking Through Music
Hall of Philosophy, Mt. Gretna Gettysburg Avenue, Mt. GretnaInnovative Elizabethtown College Professor Kevin Shorner-Johnson applies his interests in ethics, spirituality and peace building to music, the universal language. Explore modern examples of music speaking the universal language of peace in prisons, at the U.S.-Mexico border and restoring ecologies.
Cornwall Iron Furnace – Lecture
Virtual"The Battle of Brandywine" by Mike Harris
Middle Creek – Waterfowl Banding
Middle Creek Visitors Center 100 Museum Rd, Stevens, PA, United StatesWaterfowl Banding - not just map making at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area.
Middle Creek – Plant Identification & Habitat Walk
Middle Creek Visitors Center 100 Museum Rd, Stevens, PA, United StatesPlant Identification and Habitat Walk at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area
Union Canal Tunnel Park 25th Street & Union Canal Dr., Lebanon, PA, United States
Join Cocoa Kayaks for a unique opportunity to paddle the oldest transportation tunnel in the United States! Kayak a location that kayakers are not normally allowed to go during this one-of-a-kind experience! The Lebanon Historical Society will be sharing history information about the tunnel!
Kayak Tours of Union Canal Tunnel
Union Canal Tunnel Park 25th Street & Union Canal Dr., Lebanon, PA, United StatesJoin Cocoa Kayaks for a unique opportunity to paddle the oldest transportation tunnel in the United States! Kayak a location that kayakers are not normally allowed to go during this one-of-a-kind experience! The Lebanon Historical Society will be sharing history information about the tunnel!
Cast Iron Cooking
Cornwall Iron FurnaceCornwall Iron Furnace presents Cast Iron Cooking.
Free Admission Day – Cornwall Iron Furnace
Cornwall Iron FurnaceFor 1 day only, visit the Cornwall Iron Furnace for free and learn all about the iron industry's impact on Cornwall, PA in Lebanon County.
National Hunting & Fishing Day Celebration
Middle Creek Visitors Center 100 Museum Rd, Stevens, PA, United StatesJoin Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area at the Visitors Center for their annual National Hunting and Fishing Day Celebration where they will have plenty of activities and local organizations to learn about wildlife, hunting, fishing, and much more! This year's event includes: - Archery Shooting - Live K-9 Demos - WoodMobile - Simulated Target Shooting […]
Children’s Flower Crown Class
Londonderry Inn 2764 Horseshoe Pike, Palmyra, United StatesPalmyra Greenhouse presents a Children's Flower Crown Class! The workshop is open to all ages and genders. We will be working with fresh flower and floral tape, nothing hot and permanent (young kids will need help from parents). The flower truck will be there for the kids' to pick out their own flowers. Then they […]
Cornwall Iron Furnace – Lecture
Virtual"The Farms of Gettysburg" by Tom Lehman
Common Terns: Not So Common- Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area
Middle Creek Visitors Center 100 Museum Rd, Stevens, PA, United StatesLearn all about the Common Terns, small waterbirds that breed throughout the northern hemisphere. Populations have declined in recent decades and the birds are now under state protection in a number of states. Common Terns are starting to return to Pennsylvania in the Lake Erie area.
Real Photo Postcards: Their Role in Deltiology, Photography, & Historic Preservation
Schaefferstown Fire Company Carnival GroundsFounder of the Institute of American Deltiology Donald R. Brown will present a slide show and display real photo postcards of Lebanon County, the Lebanon Valley, and elsewhere. He will explore the role of real photo photography as well as their part in the Great Postcard Craze of 1905-1914. This medium made its debut between […]
Civil War Engineers at Cornwall Iron Furnace
Cornwall Iron FurnaceEngineers were vital in helping the Union Army in waging war during the Civil War. Cornwall Iron Furnace is hosting living history interpreters of the Detachment, US Engineers. This will be a small and intimate event in which the public will be able to talk one on one about the role of Engineers during the […]
Civil War Engineers at Cornwall Iron Furnace
Cornwall Iron FurnaceEngineers were vital in helping the Union Army in waging war during the Civil War. Cornwall Iron Furnace is hosting living history interpreters of the Detachment, US Engineers. This will be a small and intimate event in which the public will be able to talk one on one about the role of Engineers during the […]
Halloween Candlelight Tours – Heidelberg Hall
Heidelberg Hall 1373 Heidelberg Ave., Schaefferstown, United StatesJoin us on an exclusive extended tour of Heidelberg Hall, as we explore the mansions 30 rooms and tower in the evening light. Guests will be provided a candle as they enter the entrance vestibule to light their way through the mansion. Learn how Victorian architecture in this Second Empire style influenced the American haunted […]
An Old Fashioned Victorian Seance – Heidelberg Hall
Heidelberg Hall 1373 Heidelberg Ave., Schaefferstown, United StatesStep through the veil of time, as we recreate the atmosphere and mystique of an old fashioned Victorian seance. Our local guest historian will be discussing the history of how these events started and their origin, who performed them and why they were popularized in Victorian culture. Accompanying this event will be a 1-hour long […]