This Week in Easton, November 11 to 14

Veterans Day means a lot of people get a three-day weekend...why not take a moment of that time to say thanks to a vet?

Monday, November 11

Today is Veterans Day.
Formerly known as Armistice Day, November 11 is the anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I in 1918.
Federal, state, and most local government offices are closed. There is no mail delivery today, and post offices are closed, along with most schools.
LANTA Bus service will run on its regular schedule.

Free Car Wash for Veterans: Shammy Shine Car Washes will honor and recognize all retired and active members of the armed forces during regular business hours today. Click here for more details and locations in the Easton area.

City of Easton Veterans Day Service: 10:30 a.m. Upper Hackett Park, just off Hackett Avenue (make right on Mary Way), Palmer Township.

Maxim's Birthday Bash and Armistice Celebration: Begins at 4 p.m. Help the restaurant celebrate its first birthday. Music by Lelica Trio featuring Doug Hawk and BD Lenz playing from 7 to 10:30 p.m.  Drink specials, oysters galore, and Maxim's (the owner's son) birthday. Maxim's 22, 322 Northampton St. 610-252-2622 or www.maxims22.com

Palmer Township Board of Supervisors meeting: 7 p.m. In the Palmer Library meeting room, at the Municipal Complex, 1 Weller Place (off of Newburg Road), Palmer Township.

Trivia Night: 8 p.m. Two Rivers Brewing Company, 542 Northampton St. 610-829-1131 or www.tworiversbrewing.com

Tuesday, November 12

Duplicate Bridge: 11:30 a.m. Temple Covenant of Peace, 1451 Northampton St.

Easton Historic District Commission meeting: 5:30 p.m. (Date changed to Tuesday due to Veterans Day.) City Hall, city council chambers, 6th floor, 1 South Third St.

Easton City Council committee meeting: 6 p.m. 2014 city budget proposal review session. City Hall, city council chambers, sixth floor, 1 South Third St.

Easton Area School Board Standing Committee meeting: 6 p.m. Education Center, board room, 1801 Bushkill Drive, Forks Township.

Palmer Township Planning Commission meeting: 7 p.m. In the Palmer Library meeting room, at the Municipal Complex, 1 Weller Place (off of Newburg Road), Palmer Township.

Williams Township Recreation Board meeting: 7 p.m. Williams Township Municipal Complex, Community Building, 655 Cider Press Road, Easton (Williams Township)

Line Dancing: 7 to 9:30 p.m. Beginner lessons 7:15 p.m. Open dancing follows. $5 per person. Tatamy Fire Company, 164 Bushkill St., Tatamy. 610-759-2786 or www.purecountrydancers.com

Trivia Night: 7 to 10 p.m. Hosted by comedienne Liz Russo. Rivals, 5 Lehn's Court. 610-392-2932 or www.rivalseaston.com

Bingo: 7 to 10:30 p.m. Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church, corner of South Fourth and Ferry streets.
 
Koresh Dance Company: 8 p.m. Includes the sensuous and beguiling Koresh Bolero (to Ravel), an indisputable masterpiece in the company’s recent touring repertory, and Koresh’s most recent work, "Come Together", that features intimate compositions for small ensembles of dancers—duos, trios and quartets, as well as vibrant and kaleidoscopic tableaus for the splendid company, shown in full force. Tickets are $18. Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts, 317 Hamilton St. 610-330-5009 or williamscenter.lafayette.edu

Blues Jam with Maria Woodford: 8 to 11 p.m. Riegelsville Tavern, 1274 Easton Road, Riegelsville. 610-510-3030 or www.riegelsvilletavern.com

Wednesday, November 13

Easton City Council meeting: 6 p.m. City Hall, city council chambers, sixth floor, 1 South Third St.

Williams Township Board of Supervisors meeting: 7 p.m. Williams Township Municipal Complex, 655 Cider Press Road, Easton (Williams Township)

Free Texas Hold'em: 7 & 9 p.m. Registration is 15 minutes prior to each game. La Pazza, 1251 Ferry St. 610-515-0888 or www.lapazza.com

Tower Suite: 7 p.m. Vintage Restaurant at The Club at Morgan Hill, 100 Clubhouse Drive. 610-923-8480 or www.vintagerestaurantandbar.com

Traditional Irish open jam session: 7:30 p.m. Porters' Pub, 700 Northampton St. 610-250-6561 or www.porterspubeaston.com

Brazilian Dreams: 8 p.m. Paquito D'Rivera and New York Voices. Composer's chat with Paquito D'Rivera, 7 p.m. Tickets are $22. Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts, 317 Hamilton St. 610-330-5009 or williamscenter.lafayette.edu

Hollywood 2: 8 p.m. Riegelsville Tavern, 1274 Easton Road, Riegelsville. 610-510-3030 or www.riegelsvilletavern.com

Waver Wednesday: 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. All new wave, dark wave, indie and electronica music with DJ Brad Scott Smith and DJ Mumbler. Two Rivers Brewing Company, 542 Northampton St. 610-829-1131 or www.tworiversbrewing.com

Thursday, November 14

Colonial Herb Gardening: 10:30 a.m. With Penn State Master Gardener Becky Short, who will portray a colonist, Mistress Rebecca, who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. Travel back to the early days to discover how herbs were used in everyday life. Easton Public Library South Side Branch, 401 West Berwick St., room 102. www.eastonpl.org or 610-258-3121

Children's Health Insurance Program sign-up event: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sign up for free or low-cost health insurance for your children. Question and answer session from 6 to 6:30 p.m., sign up from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Bring ID, Social Security numbers and birth dates for all applicants, proof of income, insurance information if your family has had insurance in the past six months, and car insurance info if applicable. Child care is available during the session. Paxinosa Elementary School, 1221 Northampton St. Call 484-546-6934 to preregister.
 
Forum - "The Lehigh Valley Local Food Economy": 6:30 to 9 p.m., doors open 6 p.m. Lynn Prior, director for Buy Fresh Buy Local of the Greater Lehigh Valley, will speak, and public input will be gathered to guide the creation of a Fresh Food Access Plan towards a healthier, more sustainable food environment in which fresh food is available to all Lehigh Valley residents, both now and in the future. A local foods reception will follow the forum. Free, but pre-registration is strongly encouraged. Nurture Nature Center, 518 Northampton St. Call Brooke Kohler at 610-253-4432 or email info@BuyLocalGreaterLehighValley.org to register. Click here for more details.

City of Easton Board of Health meeting: 6 p.m. City Hall, city council chambers, sixth floor, 1 South Third St.

Forks Township Supervisors 2014 budget work session: 6 p.m. Forks Township Municipal Complex, 1606 Sullivan Trail, Forks Township.

Forks Township Planning Commission: 7 p.m. Forks Township Municipal Complex, 1606 Sullivan Trail, Forks Township.
 
PBR Retro Thursday and Game Night: Available for your endless enjoyment and nostalgic lapses are a wide assortment games we all grew up playing, plus, Ring-the-Bull and Shut-the-Box. PBR cans are $1 from 4 p.m. to midnight. La Pazza Bar, 1251 Ferry St. 610-515-0888 or www.lapazza.com

Bring (or wear) Your Own Vinyl night: 8 p.m. to midnight. With the Easton Record Exchange. Black & Blue, 683 Walnut St. 610-438-3604 or www.blackandblueeaston.com

The Chris Cummings Standards Trio: 8 p.m. Porters' Pub, 700 Northampton St. 610-250-6561 or www.porterspubeaston.com

Karaoke: 8 p.m. Riegelsville Tavern, 1274 Easton Road, Riegelsville. 610-510-3030 or www.riegelsvilletavern.com

DJ Realion: 9:30 p.m. Pearly Bakers, 11 Centre Square. 610-253-9949 or www.pearlybakers.net

"This Week in Easton" lists what's happening during the weekdays, from special events to who's playing to government meetings, all in one handy place. Not just in the City of Easton, but for the entire greater Easton area...Published every Monday morning!

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This Week in Easton, October 21 to 24

From food to art to community involvement, be sure to check out all the special happenings this week...

Monday, October 21

Easton Zoning Hearing Board meeting: 6:30 p.m. Easton City Hall, 1 South Third St., sixth floor.

"A Cutting Party": 6 to 8 p.m. Re-create t-shirts into a no-sew, funky top or one-of-a-kind slouch-style tote. $15 fee includes t-shirts and all other supplies. Advance booking not required. Hosted by Tara Kingsley, Susan Huxley, and Suddenly Samantha. At Suddenly Samantha, 140 Northampton St., Suite E. (On the left side of The Eastonian.)

Williams Township Land Preservation Board meeting: 7 p.m. Williams Township Municipal Complex, 655 Cider Press Road, Easton (Williams Township)

Wilson Area School Board Finance Committee meeting and regular meeting: Finance Committee meets at 6:15 p.m., full board meeting is at 7 p.m. William P. Tollinger Administration Building, 2040 Washington Blvd., Wilson Borough.

"Before Stonewall" Film Screening and Discussion: 7 p.m. Discussion led by Gene Kelly, associate dean of intercultural development and director of gender and sexuality programs. Free and open to the public. Lafayette College, Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium, Room 104. Click here for more details and other LGBT History Month events at Lafayette College. Click here for a campus map.

Trivia Night: 8 p.m. Two Rivers Brewing Company, 542 Northampton St. 610-829-1131 or www.tworiversbrewing.com

Tuesday, October 22

Naturalist Walk: 9 to 11 a.m. Join Preserve Manager and Natural Lands Trust Wildlife Coordinator Tim Burris to explore the 200-acre Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary. Please wear sturdy walking shoes and bring your water bottle. Walks will meet in the parking lot at Mariton. Proceeds in misty conditions but canceled in case of downpour or lightning. This event is free, but please preregister. Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary, 240 Sunnyside Road, Williams Township. For more information, email timburris@natlands.org

Duplicate Bridge: 11:30 a.m. Temple Covenant of Peace, 1451 Northampton St.

Lunchtime Forum on Food and Culture: 12:15 p.m. A multidisciplinary roundtable discussion with perspectives from a historian of food, a classics scholar on food in the Roman world, a chemist speaking on sweeteners, and Lafayette’s own LaFarm manager providing the view of a hands-on practitioner. Free and open to the public. Lafayette College, Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium, room 104. Click here for more information. Click here for a campus map.

Bingo: Doors open at 5:30 p.m., bingo starts at 7 p.m. Refreshments available. Williams Township Fire Company, 2500 Morgan Hill Road, Williams Township. www.wtfireco.com

Easton City Council committee meeting: 6 p.m. City Hall, city council chambers, sixth floor, 1 South Third St.


Northampton County Public Input Meeting: 7 p.m. On the issue of how to better manage the problems being encountered by municipalities and their police departments in handling stray dogs and cats. The meeting will include an overview of two reports prepared for Northampton County on this issue, which include possible solutions to alleviate the situation. The public is encouraged to ask questions and provide input to help the county, municipalities and other stakeholders find a solution to this problem. Charles Chrin Community Center, 4100 Green Pond Road, Palmer Township. Click here for more information or call Lori Sywensky at 610-559-3200.

Palmer Township Board of Supervisors meeting: 7 p.m. In the Palmer Library meeting room, at the Municipal Complex, 1 Weller Place (off of Newburg Road), Palmer Township.

Forks Township Planning Commission workshop meeting: 7 p.m. Forks Township Municipal Complex, 1606 Sullivan Trail, Forks Township.

Line Dancing: 7 to 9:30 p.m. Beginner lessons 7:15 p.m. Open dancing follows. $5 per person. Tatamy Fire Company, 164 Bushkill St., Tatamy. 610-759-2786 or www.purecountrydancers.com

Trivia Night: 7 to 10 p.m. Hosted by comedienne Liz Russo. Rivals, 5 Lehn's Court. 610-392-2932 or www.rivalseaston.com

Bingo: 7 to 10:30 p.m. Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church, corner of South Fourth and Ferry streets.

"Technology as Responsibility: Failure, Food Animals, and Lab-grown Meat": 7:30 p.m. Environmental ethicist and technology scholar Wyatt Galusky will discuss our problematic relationship with animals in agriculture and our attempts to fix those problems. Free and open to the public. Lafayette College, Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium, room 104. Click here for more information. Click here for a campus map.

Wednesday, October 23

Artist Talk: Noon. With Debbie Grossman, Lafayette College artist-in-residency this week. Grossman's work incorporates elements of feminism, historical research, and the ability to manipulate archival photographs via digital means. Free and open to the public. Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts, room 108. Click here for more details. Click here for a campus map.

Easton City Council meeting: 6 p.m. City Hall, city council chambers, sixth floor, 1 South Third St.

Williams Township Zoning Hearing Board meeting: 7 p.m. Williams Township Municipal Complex, 655 Cider Press Road, Easton (Williams Township)

Palmer Township Environmental Steering Committee meeting: 7 p.m. In the Palmer Library meeting room, at the Municipal Complex, 1 Weller Place (off of Newburg Road), Palmer Township.

Free Texas Hold'em: 7 & 9 p.m. Registration is 15 minutes prior to each game. La Pazza, 1251 Ferry St. 610-515-0888 or www.lapazza.com

Zaire: 7 p.m. Vintage Restaurant at The Club at Morgan Hill, 100 Clubhouse Drive. 610-923-8480 or www.vintagerestaurantandbar.com

Traditional Irish open jam session: 7:30 p.m. Porters' Pub, 700 Northampton St. 610-250-6561 or www.porterspubeaston.com

Chris Thomas: 8 p.m. Riegelsville Tavern, 1274 Easton Road, Riegelsville. 610-510-3030 or www.riegelsvilletavern.com

Thursday, October 24

Forks Township Board of Supervisors budget workshop meeting: 6 p.m. Forks Township Municipal Complex, 1606 Sullivan Trail, Forks Township.


Science on a Sphere Show - "Doom and Gloom": 7 to 8:30 p.m. A tongue-in-cheek look at all the ways the world can end with Nick Henshue. Free. Nurture Nature Center, 518 Northampton St. 610-253-4432 or www.nurturenaturecenter.org



 Masterwork Conversations: Paris! A Movable Musical Feast: 7 p.m. Pianists Matthew Harrison and Vlada Yaneva will feature works by Mozart, DeBussy, Chopin, Liszt, and Rameau, and offers the audience a chance to forge a stronger link with classical music and learn more about the genre. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. Easton Area Public Library, 515 Church St. Click here for more details.

"'Haters', 'Sinners', and the Rest of Us: The Gay Debate Today": 7:30 p.m. Talk by gay-rights advocate and college professor John Corvino. Free and open to the public. Lafayette College, Colton Chapel. Click here for more details and other LGBT History Month events at Lafayette College. Click here for a campus map.

PBR Retro Thursday and Game Night: Available for your endless enjoyment and nostalgic lapses are a wide assortment games we all grew up playing, plus, Ring-the-Bull and Shut-the-Box. PBR cans are $1 from 4 p.m. to midnight. La Pazza Bar, 1251 Ferry St. 610-515-0888 or www.lapazza.com

Bring (or wear) Your Own Vinyl night: 8 p.m. to midnight. With the Easton Record Exchange. Black & Blue, 683 Walnut St. 610-438-3604 or www.blackandblueeaston.com

YanCarlos Sanchez: 8 p.m. Porters' Pub, 700 Northampton St. 610-250-6561 or www.porterspubeaston.com

Karaoke: 8 p.m. Riegelsville Tavern, 1274 Easton Road, Riegelsville. 610-510-3030 or www.riegelsvilletavern.com

Blue Hearts Revelry: 9:30 p.m. Pearly Bakers, 11 Centre Square. 610-253-9949 or www.pearlybakers.net

"This Week in Easton" lists what's happening during the weekdays, from special events to who's playing to government meetings, all in one handy place. Not just in the City of Easton, but for the entire greater Easton area...Published every Monday morning!

Is there a community or entertainment event you'd like to see here? Are you organizing something you'd like to have posted? Did we miss something? Email us!

Updated on Tuesday, October 22 at 2 p.m.

Food, Art Are Topics Talks at Lafayette College This Week

Showing off the beet crop are students Julia Kripas '15
and Peter Todaro '16, among others, who harvest
and clean produce at LaFarm, Lafayette's Organic
Garden near the Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex.
Sarah Edmonds (not shown), Metzgar Environmental
project coordinator and Community Garden Working
Farm manager, guides them and helps them deliver
the produce to Bon Appetite Food Service.
Photo courtesy of Lafayette College

 Lafayette College will host several talks this week in celebration of National Food Day and during the artist residency of photographer Debbie Grossman. All events listed are free and open to the public.

On Tuesday, October 22, environmental ethicist and technology scholar Wyatt Galusky will present "Technology as Responsibility: Failure, Food Animals, and Lab-grown Meat" at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium, room 104.

Galusky will discuss our problematic relationship with animals in agriculture and our attempts to fix those problems. One potential solution, in vitro (or lab-grown) meat, embodies all the hope of the technological fix — inventing the problem away by changing the nature of what we eat so that we can keep eating it without requiring any change from us. Galusky argues that it’s the technological aspect itself that merits evaluation, because it is this aspect that reflects our orientation to the natural world. What do we expect nature to be in this context? Why do we have such expectations?

Earlier on Tuesday, at 12:15 p.m., also in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104, Lafayette students will host a lunchtime forum on food and culture. The event is a multidisciplinary roundtable discussion with perspectives from a historian of food, a classics scholar on food in the Roman world, a chemist speaking on sweeteners, and Lafayette’s own LaFarm manager providing the view of a hands-on practitioner.

Food Day is a celebration of healthy, affordable, sustainably produced food, and a grassroots campaign for better food policies. It aims to help people cut back on sugar drinks, overly salted packaged foods, and fatty, factory-farmed meats in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and sustainably raised protein. It’s a year-long, national effort that culminates on October 24.

An image from Debbie Grossman's "Pie Town" project.
Image provided by Lafayette College

Photographer and digital artist Debbie Grossman will visit Lafayette College this week for an artist’s residency and while on campus, she will give an artist talk on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at noon in Williams Center for the Arts, room 108.

Grossman's work incorporates elements of feminism, historical research, and a deft ability to manipulate archival photographs via digital means. In her "Pie Town" project, she has altered a series of Russell Lee photos of a rural town from the 1940s. In the photos she replaces the men with women, creating an imaginary all-female society. In her "Postmark" project, Grossman creates new letters from her deceased mother by rearranging her mother’s preexisting written notes in Photoshop.

Grossman is a senior editor at Popular Photography Magazine, where she is the resident expert on image editing software and technique. Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Jewish Museum, among others. She is represented by the Julie Saul Gallery, New York.

To learn more about her work, visit www.debbiegrossman.com