Greenwich and Kutztown Elementary students celebrated Kutztown’s Bicentennial Day with daylong activities paying homage to their Pennsylvania Heritage.
They designed their own birth frakturs, scherneschnitte. They selected and produced a traditional quilt pattern block.
An exhibition of the student’s Frakturs, Scherenschnitte and Quilt Blocks produced during the Bicentennial Day Celebration is on display at the Historical Society as one of the special exhibitions and will be available for public viewing on July 21.
During the Bicentennial Day Celebrations at the both schools the met Mayor Sandy Greene and discussed local government procedures and ordinances.
The Old Time Plowboys provided the Kutztown Elementary students a glimpse into the past. They displayed a variety of tractors as well as a miniature steam shed, and a hit and miss motor used for pump water from a century again.
Students were privileged to learned the value of the Pennsylvania Dutch cultural traditions, heritage that is their birthright.
