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Local Retail
Shopping Local in Easton: A Guide to Downtown's Independent Retail Scene
From the nation's oldest farmers' market to a three-story European-style bazaar, downtown Easton has quietly built one of the strongest independent retail corridors in the Lehigh Valley. Here is where to spend your Saturday.
Local Retail
Book and Puppet Company: The Easton Shop Where Books Meet Puppets and Magic
Book and Puppet Company at 161 Northampton Street in Easton is part bookstore, part gift shop, and part puppet theater. Owners Andy Laties and Rebecca Migdal created a space that feels like stepping into a storybook.
Faces of Main Street
Meet the Couple Behind Centre Square Cheese, Easton’s Gourmet Destination
How Ron and Jennifer turned a 15-year dream into Centre Square Cheese, a specialty cheese, tinned fish and gourmet shop at the Easton Public Market.
Wellness
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Wellness
Aardvark Sports Shop: Fitting Runners in Bethlehem Since 1984
Aardvark Sports Shop has been the Lehigh Valley's go-to running store since 1984. Located in downtown Bethlehem, this locally owned specialty shop analyzes your gait, measures your feet, and hosts free weekly group runs for all paces.
Wellness
The Rodale Institute: Where American Organic Farming Was Born
The Rodale Institute near Kutztown sits on 386 acres and is home to the longest running organic vs. conventional farming trial in North America. Public tours, pick-your-own fruit, and the annual Organic Field Day connect the Lehigh Valley to the birthplace of American organic agriculture.
Wellness
Your Guide to the Lehigh Valley's Best Running Races in 2026
From the Bethlehem Running Festival to the D&L RaceFest presented by St. Luke's, the Lehigh Valley hosts dozens of running events throughout the year. Here are the races every runner in the valley should know about.
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Culture
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Culture
The Moravian Book Shop: America's Oldest Bookstore Still Turns Pages in Bethlehem
Founded in 1745, the Moravian Book Shop in downtown Bethlehem is the oldest bookstore in America. Predating the Revolution by 31 years, it remains a working bookstore and a connection to the Moravian heritage that shaped this city.
Local News
50 Odd Years Comes Home: Big Poppa Brings a Live Rock Show to LehighValley.FM
Al Gilotti, known on the air as Big Poppa, is bringing 50 Odd Years to LehighValley.FM every Monday night from 8 to 11 p.m. It is three hours of deep album cuts, underappreciated bands and new music, hosted live from a Bethlehem home studio, and it is the first original show on the station we launched in August.
Culture
Lehigh Valley Murals: The Public Art Transforming Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton
From the ArtsWalk in downtown Allentown to the Urban Arts Trail on Bethlehem's South Side, the Lehigh Valley's public art scene is transforming the region's streetscapes with murals, sculptures, and installations that celebrate community identity.
Food Scene
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Faces of Main Street
A Third-Generation Butcher Brings 150 Family Recipes to East Allen Township
For five falls Jeremy Scavazzo took his son to the pumpkin patch on Nor-Bath Boulevard. This summer he bought the building next door. Scavazzo's Gilded Cleaver opens with two smokehouses, a grandmother behind the counter, and more than 150 recipes handed down from the grandfather who taught him.
Food Scene
Fifty Years Behind the Oven: Dom Coppola and Westgate Pizza
Domenico "Dom" Coppola has been making pizza in Bethlehem for more than fifty years. He still mans the oven himself. Dom's Westgate Pizza is a Lehigh Valley institution.
Faces of Main Street
Meet the Couple Behind Centre Square Cheese, Easton’s Gourmet Destination
How Ron and Jennifer turned a 15-year dream into Centre Square Cheese, a specialty cheese, tinned fish and gourmet shop at the Easton Public Market.
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Things To Do
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Things To Do
A Day in Jim Thorpe: The Lehigh Valley's Favorite Day Trip
Victorian architecture, mountain scenery, outdoor adventure, and a walkable downtown. Jim Thorpe is consistently rated one of Pennsylvania's best small towns and it is about an hour from your front door.
Things To Do
Lake Nockamixon: The Village Under the Lake
Before it was a boating destination, the Tohickon Valley held a mill village, a quarry and nearly 300 properties the Commonwealth condemned. Almost everything was bulldozed before the water came. One thing was left standing, and it is still down there.
Things To Do
Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic 2026: Everything to Know About the PGA Tour Champions Event Coming to Allentown
For one week this fall, the Lehigh Valley becomes a stop on professional golf's senior circuit, with Hall of Famers, $50M in economic impact, and global TV coverage.
Lehigh Valley History
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Real Estate
Living Inside UNESCO: Historic Moravian Bethlehem
Bethlehem became a World Heritage Site in 2024. But you cannot buy a house inside it, UNESCO did not add a single rule, and the regulations that actually govern your front door have been on the books since 1961.
Lehigh Valley History
“The Backbone of America”: When “Mad Men” Made Bethlehem Steel Its Client
In a 2007 episode of “Mad Men,” the admen of Sterling Cooper pitched a very real Lehigh Valley client: Bethlehem Steel. The twist: their slogans about holding up New York's skyline were basically true.
Real Estate
Steel Money on the Hill
Railroad men built it, steel men bought it, and the man who founded the American oil industry died in a brick twin halfway down the block. A walk through Fountain Hill mansion row and what became of it.
