Coal Dredging

Coal, coal, coal. Did you know that there is lots of coal on the bottom of the Susquehanna River washed down from the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania? In fact, the Susquehanna is one of only two rivers in North America read more

Sandy Sieber’s Pennsylvania Homeschool Evaluations

(I am an elementary and high school evaluator in the 717 area)

Meeting Request:

•  Call or message on Facebook to set up day and time.
• Ask for directions and cost if you don’t know already

Bring to the evaluation meeting: read more

Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Do you know where David Stickler made the first banana split? Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1904! Latrobe is also the birthplace of read more

David Dekok: An Expert on Centralia

As much as I love researching Pennsylvania history, I wouldn’t have attended the Historical Society meeting if my husband hadn’t been interested. This is a busy season for me with substituting and textbook buying. I’m glad he wanted to go read more

Necessary Rules for Children in Pennsylvania Dutch Country

When Tina Day brought Necessary Rules for Children in Pennsylvania Dutch Country to our Susquehanna Valley Critique Group, the cover and the word Pennsylvania caught my eye. I got excited looking through it. What a delightful book! Paul Breon, the editor read more

Pennsylvania Products

Snow and Ice

My most interesting find at this year’s Millerstown Spring Fling Craft Show read more

For Now We See Through a Glass, Darkly

Recently, my husband and I traveled to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where I worked at St. Vincent’s College for four days. On the way there, we had two unique experiencesread more