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WHATELY — The Whately Historical Society dug deep to bring its annual Fall Festival back to town on Sunday.The festival, sharing the day with a nearby silent auction and library book sale, showcased local pottery as its main draw. Whately pottery...

DIAMOND RIO, doors 6:30 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27, Avalon Theatre, 645 Main St., country band from Nashville, $29–$59, tickets at ticketmaster.com.

Montclair, for the second year in a row, will not hold its traditional Fourth of July Montclair parade and picnic.

20 Iconic Photos from Woodstock On 5/18/21 at 7:00 PM EDT 1969s Woodstock Festival is widely viewed as a musical watershed and historical snapshot; the dusk of a decade and metaphorical end of a more open-hearted era. Approximately 500,000 people were eventually attracted to the legendary promotional poster billing Woodstock as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music." And while Woodstock was a weekend in which Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Janis Joplin became immediate ico...

George Ellsworth “Mackey” Garner, 94, passed away Saturday, April 17, at his home in Martinsburg. Born in Altoona on July 8, 1926, he was the son of the lat

SOUDERTON — After being cancelled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Concert Sundaes are back 7 p.m. Sundays this summer in Souderton Community Park. "Its outdoors, so its the safest kind of event that we can have. We have plenty of room in the park," said Joanne Coppens, chair of the Concert Sundaes Committee. "Well ask everybody to continue social distancing and wear a mask if theyre still required at that time to protect their neighbors," she said. "Concert Sundaes is all ab...

FiddleRat may be young but this new Orlando group specializes in the good ol’ stuff. For the second anniversary celebration of SoDo brewery RockPit Brewing on...

By 10 a.m. Friday, groups were seen gathering on the streets of South Philadelphia. "New Years isnt New Years without the parade," said Cheryl Oriolo, who watched the makeshift parade-like protest from the sidewalk along Moyamensing Avenue. Moyamensing and Morris saw a sea of painted faces for the annual New Years Day strut. "COVID changed stuff, were gonna do it the right way. I dont have my mask on cause Im talking, but Im going to put it on when Im done. Were going to go around and serenade ...

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Foresters, the official old-timy string band of the u.s. forest service. now, i dont know about you, but i personally did not know the u.s. forest service has its own string band, but they do, and theyre fabulous. theyre len, james, tom and doug and theyre all park rangers. they travel around the country performing folk songs about conservation. they are a national treasure, albeit an obscure one. but a few years ago disaster struck the fiddling foresters. until then their website was paid for b...