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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.
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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.
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They Outbid Two Solar Farms and Two Developers to Keep 46 Acres Growing. Now It's Fall Fest Season.
Chris and Deb Colitas bought 46 acres off Airport Road at market value for one reason: to keep it farmland. Today Valley Fruits & Veggies spans 55 acres in Bath, where Fall Fest runs through Nov. 1 with a five-acre corn maze, hay rides, pick-your-own pumpkins and apple cider donuts baked fresh daily.
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Dorney Park Halloween Haunt Ranked No. 10 in USA Today's 10Best Theme Park Halloween Events for 2026
USA Today readers ranked Dorney Park's Halloween Haunt 10th best in the nation among theme park Halloween events, with two new attractions added for the 2026 season running through October 31.
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Fifth Street Cross: Inside Emmaus’s Thursday Night Race Where Fifth Place Wins
Born in a backyard on Fifth Street in 2005, the Thursday night run and cyclocross series now draws Olympians and first-time kid racers to the Emmaus Compost Center, and the leaders race for fifth place.
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Lehigh Valley History
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Lehigh Valley History
Constitution Drive: The Real History of Allentown's Most Legendary Road
A one-legged ghost, a family of albinos and a whistling in the woods have made Constitution Drive Allentown's most legendary road. The documented history is stranger: a Walking Purchase payoff, abandoned quarries full of radioactive rock, Bethlehem Steel buffer land, and a park nobody can quite finish.
Lehigh Valley History
The Cup on the Roof: How Dixie Came to Easton, and What Happens Next
A fear of shared drinking cups built a company, the 1918 flu sent it to Wilson Township, and a 50,000-gallon cup sat on the roof for a century. After 43 years empty, two rejected tax deals and a Hollywood film shoot, the Dixie Cup plant is becoming 412 apartments.
Lehigh Valley History
Toys “R” Us Returns to Lehigh Valley Mall Thursday, Across the Lot From the Store the Valley Lost
A seasonal Toys “R” Us opens September 24 at Lehigh Valley Mall, eight years after Whitehall lost its store. The full story runs from a 1948 baby furniture shop to a $6.6 billion buyout, $464 million in fees, and 33,000 people laid off without severance.
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Culture
Godfrey Daniels Turned 50 This Year. The Party Outgrew the Room.
Fifty years after two friends opened a 90-seat listening room in a South Side doughnut shop, Godfrey Daniels has been marking the anniversary on bigger stages. The last of those nights is Friday, when The Vanaver Caravan brings America in Motion to the Ice House on Sand Island, with a square dance after it.
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She Spent 40 Years Making Things for Other People. In 2015 She Started Painting.
Kristin Mernitz designed children's wear prints, sewed hats, gold leafed ceilings and ran a faux finishing business before she ever painted for herself. Now the Easton artist paints the Vera Neumann scarves she has been collecting since a Santa Monica flea market, and the work is up in the Alpha Building through Oct. 27.
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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.
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Food Scene
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
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.
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.
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Radio
30 Years, Three DJ of the Year Awards, and a Name He Never Picked: Matt Metal Joins LehighValley.FM
Matt Metal has been putting Lehigh Valley metal on the radio since Halloween of 1984, from Friday nights on WXLV to the stage at the Airport Music Hall, Stabler Arena and the Allentown Fairgrounds. Three runs at the station, three DJ of the year awards, and a name Kamikaze Craig handed him on the air. Now he brings The Matt Metal Show to LehighValley.FM, live Wednesdays from 8 to 11 p.m.
Radio
1,800 Albums and 1,000 78s: Ron the Paisan Brings Radio Daze to LehighValley.FM
Ron Serafin has been on internet radio since 2004, when he found the ad for his first station in a newspaper somebody left in a bathroom stall at work. Now the Lower Saucon Township record collector brings Radio Daze with Ron the Paisan to LehighValley.FM, live Tuesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. starting Sept. 29.
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36 Seasons, 868 Wins, and a New Microphone: Tim Neiman Joins LehighValley.FM
Tim Neiman coached DeSales baseball for 36 seasons and 868 wins. Starting Monday, Sept. 14, he brings his interview show Straight Lines to LehighValley.FM three times a week: Classic episodes Monday at 7 p.m., the Eastern Pennsylvania edition Wednesday at 6 p.m., and a Saturday morning repeat at 10.
