The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
In 1844 John Rodney Brinkle built an Italianate mansion in Wilmington, Del., and named it Gibraltar for the high, rocky outcropping upon which it was built. 55 years later, Hugh Rodney Sharp and his wife Isabella …
On September 17, 1862, the Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., was the site of the bloodiest day in American history, when nearly 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing after 12 hours of intense fighting, …
The Lincoln Highway is the first transcontinental highway in the U.S., running coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was also the first national memorial to President …
Fred Rogers grew up outside of Pittsburgh, Penn., in a town called Latrobe; his beloved children’s program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, was produced in Pittsburgh for decades, and both towns honor him. In Pittsburgh there is …
I was feeling a little uncertain about the steep per-person entry fee for the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh, Penn., but even though I only spent 75 minutes there, I have to admit …
The Flight 93 National Memorial is in Stonycreek Township, Penn., (about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh) at the site where Flight 93 crashed after being highjacked by four terrorists on September 11, 2001. It’s obviously …
The problems all started 14 miles upstream from Johnstown, Penn., at the South Fork Dam in South Fork. The dam created a man-made, two-mile-long by one-mile-wide lake at a private resort that served the steel, …
As is usual with my trip planning, our days were packed with adventures! Here are a few of the other interesting sites we took in on our visit to Pittsburgh, Penn. St Paul Cathedral – …
We like to learn about the places we visit, and nothing says “Pittsburgh history” like the iron and steel industry. We’d already seen the glamorous side of the city by touring The Frick Pittsburgh. Now …
Doug and I did a nighttime tour of the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Penn. The observatory is one of the most significant astronomical facilities in the history of the science, and was key in the …
