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Gettysburg Electric Map: No Address

Monday, October 5th, 2009

The Battle of Gettysburg saved American civilization from certain destruction. Now free Americans want to see the battle as they had done so for decades: at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, on a big Electric Map.
Unfortunately, it’s gone — split asunder. Or, at least in storage.
The map was a marvel of [...]

Pennsylvania: Pagan As You Go

Friday, September 25th, 2009

When a group of sociable Pagans decided to hold their “Celebrating Earth Spirituality Festival” at the semi-charming and vaguely Tudoresque (circa 1996) theme shopping hamlet of Stoudtburg Village, little did they know that the gathering would cause a retail revolt. An offended group of shopkeepers refused to open on that day, lest they come in [...]

Step Right Up!

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Stairs are so ordinary and prosaic that we rarely think of them as tourist destinations. Oh sure, we’ll stand in awe before a magnificent stained-glass window. We’ll wander for a wall mural or travel for a turret. But it’s about time that we pay tribute to an often overlooked, exceedingly everyday structure. So here’s a [...]

Hitler’s Pennsylvania Cabin

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

When Adolf Hitler’s yacht was busted up for scrap in the early 1950s, souvenirs wound up all over Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.

Roadside News: Sept. 3, 2009

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Burt Reynolds Museum – FL | Heal me, Red Boiling Springs! – TN | Mall Averse to Bison Stampede – WY | Stoogeum Owner Needs Loud Conk on Head – PA

Grade A Giants

Monday, July 13th, 2009

We all love our Roadside Giants, but rarely think about where the next generation of oversized distractions will come from. Today’s wide-eyed children, with dreams of four-story-high Labradoodles and towering fruit roll-ups, will need encouragement — and cash — to realize their own visions of entertaining enormousness.
So when The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor came up with [...]

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