SATURDAY OCTOBER 17th, 2026 - 10:00AM
HERITAGE DAY
FREE: Parking, Admission & Family Fun
Join us Saturday October 17th for
Heritage Day
A public historical program in northeastern Lancaster County. Since 2019 Heritage Day explores the 300-year history of northeastern Lancaster and southwestern Berks life from the 1740s early frontier days to the late 19th century.
Interactive Encampments, Contests, Demonstrators, Craftsmen, Adult & Children's Activities, & much more!
Featured Events
There will be many scheduled presentations by local historians and performers, military encampments, ice cream making, and plenty of hands-on children's activities.
Food is available for purchase on-site so come hungry!
Moving Deer Target
Try our archery competition for adults. Hit the target area to receive a ticket to be registered in a drawing for a gift certificate to a local sportsmans shop.
Join the Woods Walk
The Woods Walk allows teens and adults to compete in a series of fun activities to test your wilderness survival skills. Move through six stations and earn points by: starting a fire, shoot paper wads from muskets, learn archery and tomahawk throwing and more. Find out how well you would have survived beyond the frontier!
Open Fire Cooking
Open Hearth Cooked Soup
18th Century Trapper Camp
Lenape Settlement
Domestic Crafts
Farm & Industrial Processes
Antique Farm Equipment
Story Telling
Traditional Pastimes & Games
Silhouette & Fraktur
Dulcimer Music
Paper Making
Hide Tanning
Bee Keeping
Spinning & Weaving
Hands-On Activities for Kids
Laundress / Seamstress
Basket Maker
Blacksmith
Metal Casting
Sawmill
Ice cream maker
Military encampments
Horse-drawn Wagon Rides
Woodlands Walk Challenge
Gun maker
Rope maker
Potter
Pathways Heritage Day is an effort put together by the students, staff and parents of Pathways
hybrid-learning community as well as 300+ demonstrators, artisans and craftsmen.
Pathways started with a small group of like-minded individuals who desired an alternative
way to teach and learn. We wanted to develop a model that utilized project-based learning
with an emphasis on environmental stewardship and living history.
All proceeds support grades 3-12. Pathways is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization
Our 2024 Partners
Saturday, October 17th 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Brubaker Park 414 Long Lane, East Earl, PA 17519
Phone - 717-208-8332
Email - pathwaysheritageday@gmail.com
Food available for purchase - come hungry!
Followed by live music from 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Boothill Getaway will be performing a blend of acoustic bluegrass, folk, and country
