EMMAUS, Pa. — The annual Peach Festival at the Knauss Homestead Farmhouse will return for its fourth year this July.
The Knauss Homestead Preservation Society will hold the event from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Attendance is free, but registration is required.
A description of the event says more than 45 local artisans, crafters, "culinary rockstars" and wineries will join the lineup of vendors for "a fun-filled summer afternoon at one of the Lehigh Valley's most beautiful historic sites."
A list of participating vendors was not immediately available, but the event's webpage lists as past participants Big Papa's Restaurant & Catering, Bubba's Curbside Cravings, Hausman Fruit Farm, Franklin Hill Vineyards and Linda Lyons Studio.
Also, Mara's Homestead Cider, Rising River Brewing Co., South Mountain Haunts, Welcome Gnome Shoppe, House of Clay, Moody Plum Studio and more.
On Facebook, Yergey Brewing and Life Maid Easy shared that they will attend this year's event.
"Stop by our booth to meet the team, grab some fun giveaways, and enter to win a FREE CLEANING," a post by Life Maid Easy said.
'Reviving history'
Interested vendors still can participate by buying a $75 ($81.88 including fees) Peach Festival Vendor Ticket.
Horse-drawn carriage rides and a tour of the Heinrich Knauss House and Barn also will be available. The event also will feature a 50/50 raffle drawing and silent auction, according to a tentative event schedule.
At the event's inaugural run, Gene Clock, president of the Knauss Homestead Preservation Society, said organizers hoped to bring residents closer to local history.
“So we're kind of reviving history by having a peach festival.”Gene Clock, president of the Knauss Homestead Preservation Society
“Back in that day, they had a peach orchard, where they brought in fruit for other services in the borough,” Clock said then. “So we're kind of reviving history by having a peach festival.”
According to the society's webpage, the Knauss Homestead came to be in 1777.
The Heinrich Knauss House remained in the family for more than a century, when family ownership ended with the passing of Mary Ellen Knauss in 1935, the webpage says.
The preservation society was formed in 1992 and since has worked to restore the site as a part of local Emmaus history.
