UNIVERSITY PARK — The Central Pennsylvania 4th Fest lit up the State College sky in red, white and blue Friday night in a spectacular 45-minute show that event planners said may have played to a record crowd.

Start with a sun-splashed college town in the summertime for a background. Warm tones will do. Good, now add some detail -- streets filled with people perusing booths of beautiful creations, musicians jamming away, gleeful children splashed by tipping buckets of water.

In the cult of the blue and white, it is the high temple.

Beaver Stadium, home of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team, can pack more than 107,000 football fans into a cauldron of emotion.

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For a week at the Centre County Grange Encampment and Fair, humble canvas tents become dream homes.

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See all the 7 Wonders So Far

This wonder has it all: an otherworldly beauty, a history measured not in centuries but in millennia and romantic legends, all of which urge visitors to let loose their imagination.

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See all the 7 Wonders So Far

If ever chased, head to a certain red barn off state Route 45 near Centre Hall.

It's impossible to be cornered there.

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Nobody gets a bigger bang for their buck than the Central PA 4th Fest organizers.

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