Pennsylvania

Fall for New England Recap

Blogposts from our September 2021 New England road trip are (finally) complete. As with the winter of 2020’s Deep Freeze Recap, this post will provide an outline of where we went, what we saw and links to posts associated with each stop. If you haven’t seen any of the posts, you may want to start at […]

All About Frank

We planned the last stops of our month-long road trip at several Frank Lloyd Wright properties in Pennsylvania. We enjoyed a previous visit to two of them very much and thought they deserved an encore. We discovered the other three on a website and the story of how Polymath Park came to be sounded very intriguing. […]

Civil War Museum

“The Civil War is the central event in America’s historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be. The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of […]

The Hotel Hershey and Hershey Gardens

Today’s outing was a last-minute write-in. The itinerary said Gettysburg, but the flower/garden-lover in me said The Hotel Hershey and Hershey Gardens. My youngest daughter and her daughter decided to join me and it ended up being a glorious day. Gettysburg The rest of our group thoroughly enjoyed Gettysburg. The Gettysburg film A New Birth of Freedom and the Cyclorama make the Gettysburg Visitor Center a must-see. […]

Dutch Wonderland

As a requirement for reading this post, please turn on your speakers and click on the logo at left to listen to the song that was playing intermittently at the park ALL DAY! It got to be annoying enough that someone in our group would pretend to hold up a microphone, and someone else would have to sing on cue in our wonderful voices […]

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