This Week Around Happy Valley: Summer Games, Festivals, and Community Conversations
As usual there is a lot to choose from this week, which is a good problem to have!
This Week Around Happy Valley: Community Conversations and Plenty to Do
This week around Happy Valley brings a remarkable amount of activity including live music, family outings, outdoor events, and community gatherings.
More Than a Tournament: See Her Win Brings 575 Young Athletes to Happy Valley for Memorial Day Weekend
There are great weekends in Happy Valley all year long. But Memorial Day weekend feels different. It is the unofficial kickoff to summer when pools begin to open, patios fill up, schools wind down, and the entire region shifts into a new rhythm. And this year, Happy Valley kicks off summer with a fitting theme: See Her Win.
Boalsburg welcomes visitors to one of the nation’s most meaningful Memorial Day traditions. And across Happy Valley, you can feel summer beginning in a place many already believe is one of the best places anywhere to live, work, and play.
Memorial Day Weekend Anchors a Full Week Around Happy Valley
Memorial Day weekend anchors the week around Happy Valley, with remembrance events, patriotic music, family outings, concerts, games, and early summer traditions filling the calendar.
From Boalsburg’s Memorial Day weekend events to live music, outdoor gatherings, baseball, and community celebrations, this week offers plenty of ways to mark the holiday weekend and enjoy the start of the summer season.
Congrats. You always have a home here in HappyValley!
Congrats. You always have a home here in HappyValley!
Summer Is for the Locals: A Quieter Town But Not a Slower Calendar
State College feels a little quieter after graduation. The calendar shifts rather than slows down. Community festivals, family-friendly events, and outdoor activities ramping up are the first signs of the summer season around Happy Valley.
We Are….Family
There is a phrase so woven into the fabric of Penn State that it precedes introductions, crosses generations, and travels with alumni to every corner of the world. Two words that carry the weight of a covenant:
We Are…
You finish it without thinking: Penn State.
Graduation, Giving, Mother’s Day and More Around Happy Valley This Week
Happy Valley moves into one of its classic May transition weeks, with Penn State graduation bringing families to town, Centre Gives highlighting local nonprofits, and Mother’s Day rounding out the weekend
Whether you are looking for a concert, a community event, or a spring walk, this week’s calendar has a little bit of everything.
From Graduation Season to Small Business Week, Happy Valley Has Plenty Going On
Graduation is on the horizon in Happy Valley, and you can feel it all over town. Sunny days bring students out for cap-and-gown photos as friends gather at favorite campus landmarks.
You also know the end of the year is getting close when it’s time for Movin’ On, Penn State’s annual student-run music festival at the IM Fields.
Add in the start of National Small Business Week with a packed lineup of live music, makers markets, performing arts, sports, and local history events, and there is plenty to keep an eye on this week.
