Pennsylvania State Parks: Black Moshannon

The most spectacular fall scenery I have seen this year paraded itself before me read more

Kings Gap Environmental Education Center

The sign at the bottom of the mountain.

We drove up and up and up read more

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

Pennsylvania State Parks: Shikellamy

Looking Down on Northumberland from
 Shikellamy State Park 

Shikellamy State Park consists of two different areas divided by Route 11 and the Susquehanna river. To visit one we traveled north from Shamokin Dam, took Route 15 at the traffic circle, and soon turned right at a park sign. The entrance road winds to the top of the mountain where the 78-acre park is located at the edge of a 360-foot cliff overlooking the river, Northumberland, and Sunbury.

Looking down read more

Three Generations of Pennsylvania Quilters

Zola Junk's Flower Garden Quilt

My grandmother, Zola Junk (1891-1980), made tons of quilts in many different patterns. From the time I can remember, her sewing machine occupied a spot in her dining room. In the early years, she saved every piece of cotton fabric left from the clothing. At some point, our neighbor near the farm I grew up on  read more