Tag: pennsylvania
member name: Lisa Gensheimer
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June 11, 2008 11:56 PM EDT --
Six adventure cyclists on a 2,028-mile Underground Railroad journey from Mobile, Alabama, to Owen Sound, Ontario, will reach their destination in Canada on Friday, June 13.
The riders, ranging in . . . more
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October 31, 2007 08:48 AM EDT --
Everyone knows that today marks the death of Harry Houdini, the legendary escape artist who departed this world on Halloween. But did you know that his mentor, Harry Kellar, was really the first, great . . . more
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June 11, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
But first you have to write about it.
Find yourself in the forest and tell us how you got there, what surprised you, and why you love the wilderness and you can win a signed copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: . . . more
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October 01, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
T he next time I pull my arms through my "Life is Good" sweatshirt, I will remember the d ay I met Olga Polkhovskaya on a blueberry farm overlooking Lake Erie, just after sunup.
Like clockwork, . . . more
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January 17, 2008 09:23 AM EST --
Behind every great magician is ... a woman.
Kelly Flavell went through more pantyhose last summer than most women go through in a lifetime. After 414 performances in an eye-popping, big-stage . . . more
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May 11, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
Take time to notice your fine-feathered friends on Saturday, May 12. It's International Migratory Bird Day. The theme for 2007 couldn't be more appropriate -- Birds in a Changing Climate. . . . more
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November 27, 2007 06:01 PM EST --
It’s deer season in my neck of the woods, but if you’d rather hunt for antiques, Christmas gifts, and a winter’s worth of reading, take off the camouflage and set your sights for Warren, . . . more
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May 03, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
Like a secret passageway that leads into the heart and soul of America, scenic U.S. Route 6 stretches 440 miles acro ss Pennsylvania's northern tier, through forests and farmland, mountains, rivers . . . more
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February 14, 2007 10:01 PM EST --
Americans’ love affair with food and wine revealed
February 14 in the Big Apple.
If, like my husband and me, you’ve sped hundreds of miles up a craggy coast for a succulent Maine lobster; . . . more
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March 30, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
A forgotten forest sends up tiny tendrils to herald the start of spring
You can hear a symphony in the woods this time of year as the fiddlehead ferns . . . more
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August 08, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
The Swedish Vikings traveled throughout Europe and Russia before their descendants dropped anchor in Mount Jewett, Pa., and it seems they worked up quite an appetite. Roll down your windows as you drive . . . more
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February 18, 2008 08:41 PM EST --
I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 President's Day contest I hosted here on gather.com.
April L., Janet B., and Alta B. will receive copies of the public television documentary . . . more
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May 14, 2008 03:57 PM EDT --
Six of ten Americans who are currently planning a trip will not change their travel plans this summer, even as the price of unleaded regular gas approaches $4 a gallon, according to a study by the Travel . . . more
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January 22, 2008 08:54 PM EST --
Hurried along by 25-mph winds and knuckle-numbing cold, a dozen intrepid workers pluck frozen grapes from brittle vines, plopping them into crates. It is the crack of dawn along the southern shore of . . . more
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May 11, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
An Excerpt from
Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest
Story by Lisa Gensheimer, Photographs by Ed Bernik
© 2006 Forest Press
Linda Ordiway knows the songs of the forest by . . . more
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January 28, 2008 05:20 PM EST --
Want to learn more about Pennsylvania's Civil War history? Looking for an interesting and unusual way to spend a weekend getting to know the Commonwealth? Need a place to take your out-of-state visitors . . . more
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January 24, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
Ed Bernik discovered long ago that what you remember most of your travels are not the expansive vistas; not the dramatic acts of nature like lightning over the Grand Canyon or the pounding surf of an advancing . . . more
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March 08, 2007 08:14 PM EST --
An Excerpt from
Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest
Photographs by Ed Bernik, Story by Lisa Gensheimer
© 2006 Forest Press
The children at the Faithkeepers' School . . . more
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February 02, 2007 04:13 PM EST --
New hope for national landmark bridge
Brian Emberg made his way through splintered railroad ties and twisted steel high above Pennsylvania’s Kinzua Valley. The winds had died down, and a deep, . . . more
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January 11, 2007 02:11 PM EST --
If the idea of stopping by woods on a snowing evening sends shivers up your spine, wait until you step into Thomas Paquette’s new book, Thomas Paquette: Gouaches (Eyeful Press, 2007) and its frosty . . . more
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