SHAMOKIN — It was about three years ago when the Northumberland County Council for the Arts and Humanities and its director, Jeanne Shaffer, had the idea for a festival that would showcase the talents and history of the greater Shamokin area.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the three years since Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans landscape has changed. Grass and trees have again begun to bloom, and so have the crescent city’s visual arts organizations, thanks in part to a series of grants given by the

ST. JOHN | St. John the Evangelist School is one of the 1,500 pilot school recipients of the National Endowment for the Humanities program, Picturing America, an innovative program that helps teach U.S. history and provides students with a gateway to the

In the 1970s, arts organizations moved into unused municipal buildings across New England, taking over the facilities at low or no cost with little promise of local aid beyond a long-term lease.

On Monday, the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development, co-chaired by State Representative Eric Turkington, will visit the Nantucket Atheneum, continuing the committee’s tour of the commonwealth . The meeting is scheduled for 10:30 a.m