The weekend before Thanksgiving, my dad and I both got a cold. We had been together frequently the week before, so we obviously caught it from the same person. The cold came on me suddenly and violently. It was so sudden I felt like I was having some kind of allergic reaction. One minute I …
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Lancaster History Center in Lancaster, Pennsyvlania
After our great experience at the York County History Center, Tom and I decided to spend a day at the Lancaster History Center. This is the York experience taken to the next level. The York History Center is sandwiched into a refurbished building in downtown York. The Lancaster History Center is on a campus on …
York County History Center, York Pennsylvania
As part of our genealogical research, Tom and I visited the York County History Center in York, Pennsylvania. My experience of county historical societies hasn’t been very positive. They usually seem to be a collection of odds and ends housed in an old building and not well curated. The Richland County Historical Society (in the …
Dietz Family Cemetery in Hellam Township
As I have mentioned before, Tom and I have done a great deal of work in genealogy. Two years ago we developed family trees for most of our relatives. While we were in Harrisburg, we decided to find out what we could about my ancestors in Pennsylvania. Our first stop was the Dietz Family Cemetery …
Pennsylvania Grand Canyon: Pine Creek Gorge
Although I still have plenty of things to write about our time in Pennsylvania, I want to be sure to include the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon: Pine Creek Gorge. I know you were waiting on the edge of your seats for this one! Tom and I visited the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon, Pine Creek Gorge, in 2007. …
National Apple Harvest Festival in Biglerville
Tom and I enjoyed being in Harrisburg because it was so easy to get places from Harrisburg. One Sunday, after church, we headed south a bit to check out the National Apple Harvest Festival in Biglerville, Pennsylvania. I knew apple growing was a big thing in Washington state. I also know Ohio has its share …
Hate Shopping at Walmart but Love Shopping at Giant
Uniontown PA has 10,000 people and two grocery stores. Shop n Save and Walmart. Those were our choices all summer and neither of them was really a good option. Sure, we could get the basics but the produce was lousy. Although I see Walmart as a necessary evil, I hate shopping at Walmart, especially on …
Truck Starter Not Starting
Tom and I came to Harrisburg because I signed up for a weaving class at Redstone Glen Fiber Arts School. I have been looking forward to this class ever since I signed up in July. Monday morning, the first day of class, Tom and I got up in plenty of time to get to class, …
Hersheys Chocolate World in Hershey Pennsylvania
Have you ever been to Hersheys Chocolate World? I toured the Hershey factory when I was a kid, or so my parents tell me. I don’t remember it, and Hershey stopped allowing tours of the actual factory in 1973. By then the factory was overrun with over one million visitors every year. While we are …
Pumpkin Fest 2019 in Confluence, Pennsylvania
Tom and I love to go to community festivals. One of the things that is hard about working most weekends is never getting to go to these community events. However, one of them was close enough that we were able to go after work. Consequently we spent time at the 31st Annual Confluence Pumpkin Fest. …