KUTZTOWN, Pa. - For one local artist, creating art is not just a job but an adventure he shares with people every year at the Kutztown Folk Festival. "I paint Hex signs and I paint barn stars," said ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Dutch influence on the Lehigh Valley shines through in any number of ways: the food, the festivals, the language. And at the culture's very soul are hex signs -- the ...

LLENTOWN, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Dutch influence on the state’s Lehigh Valley shines through in any number of ways: the food, the festivals, the language. • A part of the culture’s very soul, however, ...

Kutztown, Pa -- Eric Claypoole has painted more than 100 barns, a craft he began as a child alongside his father, the late barn star legend Johnny Claypoole. Each brushstroke, he says, requires a ...

The signs were there when he bought his grandfather's farm five years ago. Eric Claypoole restored them for about $500, he said. Rice pointed out the barn's false door lintels, "so the witches would ...