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Allen/East Allen townships: Enjoy breakfast at Lappawinzo

Lappawinzo Rod and Gun Club, 25 Lappawinzo Road, will hold a breakfast 8 a.m.-noon Nov. 19. It is open to the public. There is a cost.

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Governor Wolf Historical Society will hold its 37th annual Christmas house tour of historic homes and landmarks 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 2, starting at the society’s campus, 6600 Jacksonville Road, East Allen Township. This year’s theme is “Coverlets - A Warm Christmas,” featuring a display of early woven coverlets from the 18th and 19th centuries.

The campus will be open 9 a.m. for a free 1800s historic family day. Donations are accepted. The campus will be filled with 1800s-costumed craftspeople doing hearth cooking, presenting ancient herbs and their use and demonstrating early Fraktur painting.

There will be demonstrations of hand-forged iron kitchen tools, weavers and spinners, wood slab benches, a one-room schoolhouse teacher, carved toys and more. Children’s crafts will be taught. Additional local crafters will feature items for sale.

There will be displays of a large 1800s woven jacquard coverlet and earlier overshot coverlets throughout the three buildings on the site, many dated and signed by early local weavers.

The Daily Grind Café will be open in the Monocacy School, offering soups, snacks and lunches to eat there or take with you on the tour.

Seven private homes are featured on the tour this year, plus four other historic structures. All date to the 1800s and early 1900s. They include a large Victorian bed-and-breakfast complete with an attached early general store, an early 1800s barn that is now a beautiful home, a tiny stone gem that was used by passengers while waiting for a train, a large stone center hall Georgian, the original slate-walled Chapman School and more.

House tour tickets are available in advance at Bath Drug, 310 S. Walnut St.; S. Seem Antiques & Artisans, 100 S. Chestnut St., Bath; Miller Supply Ace Hardware, Route 329 and Savage Road, Northampton; Curt’s Cyclery, 182 Bath Pike, Nazareth; and Snow Goose Gallery, 470 Main St., Bethlehem.

For further information, visit govwolf.org or call 610-837-9015.

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