Harvest Fair
Live music, 18th century trade demonstrations, colonial kids games and artisan stalls across the lawns of two historic houses. Ten dollars for adults, kids free, parking at St. Luke's across the street.
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Living History Saturdays at the Speaker's House
The last one of the season, Labor Day weekend. Demonstrations run ten to four and then the summer program closes until next June. Free, park on site.
Experiencing Independence: Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution
A two-day symposium on diaries, letters and objects left behind by mid-Atlantic families between 1760 and 1790. Run with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Ursinus College.
Experiencing Independence: Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution
Day two of the Historic Trappe symposium, with panels on wartime experience, religious perspectives and non-English sources on the Revolution. Held in the Dewees Tavern on West Main Street.
Around the same time
The Lifespan of a Fact
A magazine fact checker takes apart a celebrated essay line by line and the author fights back. Act II runs the three hander for five weeks in its small room on Butler Avenue.
Rice's Market (Tuesdays)
Thirty acres of flea market, farm stands and antique dealers going since the 1870s. Gates at 7am and it thins out by midday, so come early and bring cash.
Executive Scramble
Nine simulated holes before work with a rotating cast of local business people. Ninety minutes, no handicap required, and the point is the conversation between shots as much as the golf.
