About 30 minutes outside Pittsburgh is this little park with a lot of personality. Braddocks Trail Park which is has a bit of trails, a lovely waterfall, scenic lookout, and a wildflower walking tour. Of course, I missed the scenic lookout which looks down on the Youghiogheny River because don’t have a map up during the winter. The wildflower walking […]
Three days was not enough to see everything but I gave it a good go. It was hot weekend in the summer of 2019 but I enjoyed myself. I even meet an actor that was part of the reenactment and had several great conversations with him about the Civil War and other stuff. If you can go during the reenactment, […]
It was a once in a lifetime event. The date of 02/02/2020 is the first global palindrome day in 909 years which was on 11/11/1111 and the next will be in 101 years on 12/12/2121. So, the question becomes how did you spend the day!!!! I went to Puxsutawney, PA for Groundhog’s Day to watch Phil predict the weather. A […]
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam broke and 20 million tons of water raced fourteen miles towards Johnstown traveling forty miles per hour. Flooding every small town that it hit on the way. When the flood was done, at over 2,200 people where know to be killed. It was a tragedy that ripped across America’s headlines. The town […]
The Living Dead Museum is a celebration of Zombies in Pop Culture. It is in the center of Evens City and about 30 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. If you are into zombies, then this is the place to go. If your not, I would skip it because it will have little meaning for you. It has a wonderful collection of […]
Overview The Flight 93 National Memorial is a somber place only broken by a child running by or laughing because they don’t understand. The smiles of those that you pass are forced or with a tear in the eye but with a pride of both tragic realization and triumph over certain defeat. As the memorial sits on a hilltop in […]
Happy New Year’s Mars! Every 687 days Mars goes around the Sun. Mars, Pennsylvania, celebrates this with a dinner and a breakfast close to the date and then a weekend New Year’s party in early summer, i.e. late May or early June. Check out the Mars New Years Festival Schedule for cool items even if you miss the party. They […]
Overview A day in Brownsville, PA is just a pleasant and enjoyable way to spend a day. So many different things to do and see including four different museums, the first cast iron bridge build in the United States, and birth place of Philander C. Knox (U.S. Attorney General, Senator, and Secretary of State) and astronomer John Brashear. Nemacolin Castle […]
Every summer South Park and Hartwood Acres host free concerts in the park. They have everything from local bands to bands that are about to take off to the top stars of music shows to old bands (Jefferson Starship) to the two time Grammy winning Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to the Pittsburgh Opera. The music is change every week from funk, […]