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300 NAZARETH WALKERS STROLL INTO HISTORY

Morning Call - Allentown, Pa. Author: The Morning Call

Copyright Morning Call Jun 28, 1990

More than 300 people walked into Nazareth's history last night, touring the buildings that tell the borough's 250-year-old story.

Participants in the walking tours strolled with costumed guides from the Whitefield House, the cornerstone of the Moravian settlement in the borough, to the Nazareth Vigilance Hose Company to view the Good Intent, a 1771 fire truck, and then through Center Square to Moravian Hall Square.

The tour was sponsored by the Moravian Historical Society. A limousine was provided by Bartholomew-Schisler Funeral Home for those who could not walk the tour.

Museum curator Susan Dreydoppel and tour guide Lou Dishong said the participants, which included infants and people over 70, came from Bethlehem, Easton, Emmaus and Quakertown.

Many people taking the tour grew up in Nazareth and were making a sentimental journey through the borough during its 250th anniversary festivities, Dreydoppel said.

On the way, participants heard reminiscences of a grandfather's harness shop on Belvidere Street and stories about "boys from the hall," the Hall Square military academy that closed in 1929.

The Navy Band Commodores, an 18-piece group based in Washington, D.C., played a diversity of music from classical jazz to pop for the young and old alike last night at Andrew S. Leh Stadium. The crowd included residents from Gracedale, the Northampton County Home in Upper Nazareth Township, and the Moravian Hall Square Retirement Community.

Agricultural Days, today and tomorrow at Nazareth Borough Park, will feature farm animals, displays, demonstrations and competitions, sponsored by the Northampton County Farm Bureau.

A goat-milking contest among city folks -- some county councilmen reportedly among them -- will be held at 7:30 tonight.

Shirley A. Reeves, the original lead singer of the Shirelles; The Drifters; and the T-Birds will have two concerts tonight in the Nazareth Area Senior High auditorium. The Nostalgia Night concerts are sponsored by the Nazareth National Bank.

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