Cool Keys In The City ...

“The only truth is music.”

    ~ Jack Kerouac

    ~ 1922-1969

The new Public Piano waits to be played along the new SouthSide Urban Arts Trail Nov. 8, 2020 at Third and Fillmore Streets, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Anyone is welcome to sit down and tickle the ivories or listen to the music that weaves into the street rhythm of South Side Bethlehem.

The piano features the art of local artist Christopher Colon and is sponsored by The Lehigh Valley Chamber Main Street Foundation, Northampton Community College Fowler Family SouthSide Center, the SouthSide Arts District Design Committee and Wegmans Food Markets.

The project was a venture of the SouthSide Arts District, an initiative of the Bethlehem Economic Development Corporation.

A sign of the times in the age of COVID-19, a spray bottle of hand sanitizer sits atop the piano.

A street piano is a piano placed in a public area that encourages passersby to stop and play.

 

A Sign Of Nostalgia At Haines Mill ...

“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.”

           ~ Elliott Erwitt

               ~ photographer

                ~ born 1928

The morning sun dapples around the Haines Bros. Flour Mill sign on the historic Haines Mill on a beautiful late October day in the Borough of Cetronia, Allentown, Pennsylvania in this high contrast monochrome shot.

 

Also known as Haines Mill Museum, it is an historic grist mill built circa 1850. It produced flour processed by an old-fashioned water-powered mill located just off the banks of the Cedar Creek. It remained in full operation until 1957.

 

A mill has stood here on the banks of the Cedar Creek since colonial times. The current circa 1850 Haines Mill offers a trip into the world of the early technology that supported farm life.

 

The sign on the front of the building says: “Haines Bros. Flour Mill, The Home of Gilt Edge Flour,” with a sack of flour etched with the words, “Cetronia Flour Mills, Gilt Edge Flour, 50 lbs. net, Allentown.”

 

It is a four-story, stone building with a slate covered gambrel roof. It is three bay by three bay, 42 feet by 46 feet, 9 inches. The interior was rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1908. A three-story brick addition was built in 1930, with a lean-to roof. Atop the main roof is a cupola.

 

Today, Haines Mill is operated as a partnership between the County of Lehigh, which owns and maintains the site, and the Lehigh County Historical Society, which provides public tours. It is located in a serene 37.5 acre park.

 

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

 

Blue Moon Risin' ...

“Yes, I am a dreamer,

For a dreamer is one

Who can find history by

Moonlight, and see the

Dawn before the rest of the world.”

 ~ Oscar Wilde

 ~1854-1900

A rare full Halloween Blue Hunter’s Moon rises October 31, 2020 over Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

October 2020 had two full moons: the full Harvest Moon October 1 and the full Hunter’s Moon October 31.

The second full moon in a month is referred to as a Blue Moon. Typically, the next moon after the harvest moon is known as a Hunter’s Moon – when hunters used moonlight to hunt prey and prepare for winter.

The last full moon seen in all U.S. time zones on Halloween occurred in 1944 and won’t happen again until 2039.