The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
Winterthur, pronounced “winter-tour” and named after an ancestral home in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the famous du Pont-related estates in Wilmington, Del., (we also toured Hagley and Nemours, and they are very different experiences). …
There’s a lot going on at the Hagley Museum, the site of the first-built of the trifecta of remaining du Pont estates in Wilmington, Del. (the others being Winterthur and Nemours, both of which we …
Harpers Ferry National Historic Park is a site that is rich in history. The town itself has lots of little village shops that you can see in any number of historical reenactment parks –- a …
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 …
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, …
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 …
We were hot on the trail on some quirky items as we made our way to Pittsburgh. First up was Mister Ed’s Elephant Museum & Candy Emporium in Orrtanna, Penn. The Elephant “museum” is basically …
