Landscapes abstracted:An opening reception is 6-8 p.m. July 14 for “Nature: In Lehman’s Terms,” through Aug. 11, The David E. Rodale and Rodale Family Galleries, The Baum School of Art, 510 Linden St., Allentown. Wine, beverages and light fare will be served. Exhibitions and opening receptions are free and open to the public. The exhibit, including, above, “Barn” (acrylic and caran d’ache, 16 in. by 16 in.), features Earl W. Lehman’s works on canvas and paper of colorful abstract compositions and expressive Pennsylvania landscapes. Lehman is a 1978 magna cum laude graduate of Kutztown University. His work has been exhibited in the Salmagundi Club, New York City. He is represented by galleries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia. He was the Preparator of Exhibitions, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, for 15 years. Lehman resides and maintains his studio in Jessup, Lackawanna County. Gallery hours, information: baumschool.org, 610-433-0032

Open House Pa.-Dutch style:A Pennsylvania-Dutch “Garden Lore” Open House is 11 a.m.-3 p.m. July 9 at the 1756 Troxell-Steckel Farm Museum, 4229 Reliance St., Egypt, Whitehall Township. Visitors can tour the farmhouse, which was built 20 years before the Declaration of Independence, and see vintage wagons, farm tools and more in the barn, above. “You can step back to an era when ‘Farm to Table’ cooking and eating ‘Seasonally Fresh Foods’ was a way of life,” said Joseph Garrera, Executive Director of the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum, Allentown, which owns and operates the Troxell-Steckel Farm Museum. “Long before broccoli, beets and other vegetables were touted as ‘Superfoods,’ they were Pennsylvania-Dutch favorites.” Visitors can learn how these and many other foods were grown and prepared. Re-enactors will portray the Steckel family. Children attending can play old-fashioned games. Ticket information: lehighvalleyheritagemuseum.org, 610-435-1074.