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Beehive Bake Oven Pizza and Music
Weaving & Spinning Demonstration
History Camp | 09 Concert Series
BEEHIVE BAKE OVEN PIZZA AND MUSIC
Join us for old fashioned pizza baked in our beehive
bake oven located behind the Wagner/Bentle House
(The Museum Shop building). We'll be entertained by acoustic music by
McPharlin's Music Studio.
Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy the evening. The Museum Shop
will be open as well!
3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 27th
Saturday July 25th
Saturday, August 29th
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ANNUAL HISTORY CAMP
History Harmony's annual history camp will be held 9
a.m. - noon daily July 27 - 31. Concurrent activities for new and
returning campers include walking tours, area history and Harmonist
culture, and crafts. The cost is $30 per camper plus $5 Youth membership
for non-members. Phone the HH office at 724-452-7341 for registration
information.
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09 HARMONY CONCERT SERIES
The Harmony Business Association presents fewer free
Thursday evening performances. Concerts move to the Diamond with the
Harmony Inn ending it's long association with the series. More details
in our July newsletter, but mark your calendar now: July 2, 8 p.m.,
sponsored by Historic Harmony, Inc. At this time we regret that we will
probably NOT be having fireworks due to being unable to secure the
property on which to do so. We'd like to thank our Fireworks sponsors,
Robinson Industries, JADCO and Harmony Borough and hope to be able to
bring them to you later in the year.
July 2, 7:30 p.m. Eugene & the Nightcrawlers
Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m. Z-H Community Jazz Band
Sept 3, 7:30 p.m. The Right Rhythm Band
All concerts on the Harmony Diamond!
Bring your lawn chair!
Food available!
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PACK UP FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND COME OUT
FOR THE DAY!
Harmony Museum and all the shops are
open Tuesday
thru Sunday for your year-round shopping enjoyment.
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HARMONY HERB & GARDEN FAIR
SATURDAY, JUNE 13TH, 9
am to 3 pm
Plant Exchange & Sale
- Informational Seminars
Specialty Vendors - Garden Flea Market
Homemade Lunch
Available
Mercer St. Barn -
Harmony, Pa
724-452-7341
ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT
HARMONY MUSEUM
Please place plants
for exchange in containers, no bare root plants, please.
(Also, please, no Loosetrife or Bishops Weed)
HARMONY, Pa. -- The Harmony Museum's annual Herb
& Garden Fair, offering plant sales as well as exchanges, will be
held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, at its historic barn museum
annex on Mercer Road just north of the Connoquenessing Creek.
Admission is free and lunch will be available.
Gardeners may trade potted plants. Specialty
vendors will offer roses and other ornamentals, perennials, herbs
and garden art. Experts will be available throughout the day to
answer visitors' gardening questions. Donors and exchangers who
bring plants to the fair will receive exchange vouchers; museum
volunteers recommend that plants be potted well ahead of time to
assure they have a fresh, vigorous appearance for displayed.
Another attraction is Harmony's 3/4-mile
hiking-biking trail between the 1805 barn and 1825 Harmony Mennonite
meetinghouse and cemetery, both museum annexes. Much of it is along
the Connoquenessing, and birds and other wildlife are abundant.
Visitors are also encouraged to enjoy a
three-block walk to the National Historic Landmark District's
Harmony Museum, specialty shops and art gallery. Admission is
charged for guided tours of three museum buildings, including a
mid-1800s log house, that are offered 1-4 p.m. Garden plantings at
the Wagner House museum annex on Mercer Street include herbs as well
as rare and unusual roses, and a large arbor supports productive
grape vines imported more than 150 years ago from Germany.
Harmony is one of the region's most significant
historic places. In the mid-1700s it was the site of the Lenni
Lenape (Delaware) Murdering Town, visited by young Virginia Maj.
George Washington during his 1753 mission to demand French
withdrawal from the region, sparking the French & Indian War. A
"French Indian" fired the war's first shot at Washington nearby --
and missed.
The Harmony founded in 1804 by pacifist German
Lutheran Separatists spanned some 9,000 acres of what is now Harmony
Borough and Jackson and Lancaster townships. Their celibate Harmony
Society became 19th century America's most successful communal
group. A heritage tourism site for 200 years and Western
Pennsylvania's first National Landmark District, Harmony reflects an
architectural character much like that of the hometowns of its
founders in southwestern Germany.
In 1814 the Harmonists moved to Indiana
Territory, and Mennonite Abraham Ziegler bought all of the society's
holdings except its cemetery. The Harmony Society returned in 1824
to settle only 22 miles southwest of Harmony where its final home is
commemorated as Old Economy Village in Ambridge. The commune was
dissolved in 1905.
During the second half of the 19th century,
Harmony's Charles Flowers made fine percussion hunting and target
longrifles, now collected as works of art as well as historic
firearms. Oil and gas booms benefited the area in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries.
Harmony Museum exhibits present these and other
elements of the area's remarkably rich history. It is open 1-4 p.m.
daily except Mondays and holidays. Harmony is at I-79 exits 87 and
88, about 30 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh, 10 miles north of
Pennsylvania Turnpike exit 28, and 30 miles south of I-80.
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CONTACT: Kathy Luek, Administrator, 724-452-7341
5/10/2009
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NATURAL DYEING SEMINARS
Natural dyeing seminars will be conducted by Barbara
Kaufman in Stewart Hall. Participants will learn techniques and create a
wall hanging. Schedule: 1-4 p.m. on Wednesday, June 10, and 9 a.m. -
noon on Thursday and Friday, June 11 - 12. The fee is $15 per person.
Phone the office to register. 724-452-7341.
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WEAVING AND SPINNING DEMONSTRATION
HH weavers will present a weaving and spinning
demonstration -- and refreshments -- for prospective students at 2 p.m.
on Sunday, June 28, at Passavant Retirement Community. Phone the HH
office to register at 724-452-7341. The program is housed in the Mercer
Street log house, and Becky Burdick is organizing the demonstration.
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