Updates and The Morning Call!

The scheduled meet-up at the Lehigh Valley Blues Brews and Barbecue festival is going to be wonderful. We will all meet at 3:15 at the Mississippi Pig Farmers set. Any questions, please leave a comment. I hope you can all make it down.

If you haven't seen it yet, Marjorie Kleiner (Andrew and Bryan's mother) has an article published in the Morning Call about Allentown From The Ground Up: http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/letters/all-kleiner.6924564jun12,0,4790019.story.

Here is the event info for tomorrow:

Blues, Brews & Barbecue

From noon until 8pm on Saturday June 13th, the 800 block of Hamilton Street is the place to be. With a menu of live music, face-painting, a grill giveaway, stilt-walkers and more barbecue than you can imagine, this event is not to be missed.

Blues, Brews & Barbecue includes barbecue competitions with the promise of finger-lickin’ good recipes, refreshing brews and activities that will get you fired up.

Music presented by:

Lazy Dogma 12:30pm - 1:30pm

James Supra 1:45pm - 3:00pm

The Mississippi Pig Farmers 3:15pm - 4:30pm

BC & Company 4:30pm - 6:15pm

Todd Wolfe 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Where: PPL Plaza - 9th and Hamilton St. Allentown, PA

Food vendors:

Allentown Brew Works

Bada Bingg

Balasia

HillBilly’ BBQ

Grumpy’s Bar-B-Que Roadhouse

Pitnic’s Smoked BBQ

Winston’s



There will be all types of food for sale: Beef Brisket, Ribs, Chicken, Jambalaya, Pulled Pork, Meatball Sandwiches, Hotdogs, Potato Salad, Baked Beans, Coleslaw, Funnel Cake and more just skim the surface of what will be offered. To be noted: This year we will even be offering vegan barbecue: Balasia will be offering seitan barbecue, grilled Portobello mushrooms, sweet corn and more! Prices range from $1-$8.

Plenty of free parking available in the Farr Lot located on 8th Street between Hamilton and Linden Streets or in the Old Hess’s Parking Deck at 8th and Linden.



Next week we will be meeting on Thursday night for a film at The Southside Film Festival.

Allentown: From The Ground Up will be attending the documentary, "The Town That Was," at the SouthSide Film Festival

We invite everyone to come out and watch the film with us.

We will meet at 7:00p.m outside the Whitaker Lab. The film starts at 7:30 and the admission price is 5 dollars.

Here is the film synopsis taken from the SouthSide Film Festival Website:

"In 1962, a trash fire ignited a seam of anthracite coal beneath Centralia,
Pennsylvania, a once-thriving mining town of over 3,000 people. By the
mid-1980s, giant plumes of smoke and deadly carbon monoxide gases billowed
from fissures in the ground, the local highway cracked and collapsed, trees
were bleached white and petrified, as the fire continued to rage unchecked.
It wasn't until a young boy nearly died after falling into a smoldering mine
subsidence that the government was pressed into action. After estimating the
cost of extinguishing the fire at over half a billion dollars, the government instead opted to raze the town and relocate its residents. Today, 11 die-hards remain.
Filmed over a period of four years with interviews ranging from former
residents to Congressmen, The Town That Was is an intimate portrait of John
Lokitis, the youngest remaining Centralian, and his quixotic fight to keep
alive a hometown that has literally disintegrated under his feet. His
unbowed determination and steadfast refusal to acknowledge defeat reveal a
man, a town, a region, and a way of life abandoned and forgotten."

The film will be played in the Whitaker Lab. Directions can be found at: http://www.southsidefilmfestival.com/festival/maps-a-directions

For more information regarding the SouthSide Film Festival check out their website at: http://www.southsidefilmfestival.com/

We look forward to a great evening and hope to see many of you.

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We hope to see a lot of people out for these events!

There is planning going on right now for some major Allentown From the Ground Up sponsored events and news is coming soon!

Thanks everyone.