Gettysburg Electric Map: No Address
Monday, October 5th, 2009The 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, 2009When 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, 2009Stairs 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, 2009When 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, 2009Burt 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, 2009We 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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