FW: [CH] ATTENTION: Allentown / Reading / Philadelphia Chile Head

Porter, Jeff (jeff.porter@iga.com)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:29:54 -0400 

This is what I saved from a recent posting.  I would still like to know what
time it starts if the original poster could let the list know.
thanks.
-JP-

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ike_@fast.net [SMTP:ike_@fast.net]
> Sent:	Saturday, August 29, 1998 12:14 PM
> To:	Chile-Heads@globalgarden.com
> Subject:	[CH] ATTENTION: Allentown / Reading / Philadelphia Chile
> Heads!
> 
> As a friendly Chile-head reminder, the Annual Chili Pepper Food
> Festival in Bowers Park will be held Saturday, September 12th, at
> Bowers Park, Bowers PA.
> 
> The annual festival is held at Bowers Park, Bowers, just south of
> Kutztown, PA (just 30 minutes from Allentown/PA Turnpike).
> 
> Local and regional vendors are on hand all day with samples of their
> HOT delights (the hot BBQ ribs are excellent every year!).  In
> addition craft and pepper-wear vendors are always on hand.  Not to
> mention the ice cream vendor to help cool your mouth at days end!
> 
> And to make the day all that much better for those Chili-heads who
> have a need for fresh ones, right from the field, there is a farm
> (Meadow View Farm) only 1/4 of a mile from the park that lets you
> "Pick Your Own" right out of the field, with 160 varieties from which
> you can pick.  The prices are good, and so are the peppers!
> 
> I'll be there, and hope some of you will be too!
> 
> 
> 
> -Tim
> 
> ICQ#: 1597673
> Home: ike@fast.net (remove the anti-SPAM underscore to send me e-mail)
> http://www.users.fast.net/~ike
> 
> 
> Directions to Bowers Park, Bowers, PA
> -------------------------------------
> From PA Turnpike NE Extension (I-476), Allentown:
> 
> Lehigh Valley Exit (#33), take US-22 West.
> Follow US-22 (which turns into I-78) to PA-100 South (Fogelsville).
> Follow PA-100 to second light, turn right onto Schantz Road.
> Follow Schantz Road to US-222 (Hamilton Street), and take 222 South
> (towards Kutztown).
> Follow US-222 to the SECOND Kutztown Exit (PA-737), turn left.
> Follow PA-737 to FIRST light, make a right onto Main Street.
> Follow Main Street to the first light and turn left (Noble Street).
> Follow Noble Street out of Kutztown to the stop sign in Lyons, turn
> left (Topton-Fleetwood Road).
> Follow Topton-Fleetwood Road for 1 mile into Bowers, turn left (signs
> for Bowers Park and the Festival should be easy to see).  
> Bowers Park is on the left.
> 
> 
> From Reading and west:
> 
> Follow US-222 North to PA-737, turn left
> Then follow directions above starting with PA-737 directions.
> 
> 
> For a map of Bowers, check out this link from Yahoo! Maps which shows
> the Kutztown / Lyons / Bowers / Topton area, with red star marking
> Bowers
> http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&YY=12268&addr=old%20bowers%20roa
> d&city=Bowers&state=PA&slt=40.4872&sln=-75.7425&mlt=40.504&mln=-75.7485&ma
> g=8&cs=5&newmag=7
> 
> (sorry about the length of the link...)