Here are some amazing facts about one of humankind’s most amazing achievements. The Appalachian Trail runs nearly 2,200 miles through the Appalachian Mountains. It’s the longest footpath on Earth. It takes an estimated 5 million […]
Trick-or-treating back in the day was an entirely different experience. The town bully boys roamed in search of prey. They did their worst, which back then came down to stealing a candy bar or two […]
It was tall, clumsy and slow, designed for some entirely different purpose. It would do exceptionally well out on the road, in some long-distance travel with plenty of hills to climb. But, for a kid […]
I was allowed to have nearly any animal as a pet, except for snakes. My mom, who made most of the rules in our family about things like that, was very clear about that: No […]
I grew up next to a junkyard. Not a garbage dump or a landfill, but a junkyard of old farm machinery, tractor tires and construction materials. Sharp, rusty edges protruded at every turn. The clouded […]
“Don’t worry about food. We’ll eat the trout we catch,” I told my two friends, Leo and Randy. And I believed it when I said it. Really, I did. The facts that the native brook […]
Good Friday was the opportunity for a grand hike to the High Rocks, also known as Boxcar Rocks, a high, elevated series of towering boulders. The High Rocks stood on the south edge of the […]
The urge to imprint myself on the land came on early. It was an urge to map, name and label the landscape that I explored almost daily. The Wiconisco Creek, which back then we locals […]
Bears were not always so common in Pennsylvania. There was a time when they were never spotted south of the Blue Mountain. The few thousand that lived in the state inhabited the northern forests. Sighting […]
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