Pennsylvania State Parks

Fall is a perfect time to visit a Pennsylvania state park. Click on the names under the pictures and view my past blogs about these parks. read more

Colonel Denning 

Cook Forest 

Cowans Gap 

PA State Parks: Colonel Denning

Colonel Denning State Park, 40 miles west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, spurred me  read more

From the Archives: Who are the Tennis Family?

"E. A. Tennis's home in 1891," I read as I looked at a picture from a file on Thompsontown, Pennsylvania during a visit to the Juniata County Historical Society. My mother-in-law, now gone, once told me  read more