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Category Archives: The Past is Ever Present…
On the Road Again: In Search of the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania, Part TWO
I awoke from a delightfully cozy sleep at the Lincoln Motor Court, about five miles east of Schellsburg, ready to resume. Again the day was clear and sunny. I walked around the charming court and gazed back westward at the … Continue reading
On the Road Again: In Search of the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania, part one
I can still feel it–the exhilaration of flying along the two-lane highway through the Alleghenies: the Lincoln Highway, once touted as America’s Main Street, in Pennsylvania! This was the year, you see, that I was going to do the Lincoln … Continue reading
Posted in On the Road Less Taken..., The Past is Ever Present...
Tagged Lincoln Highway, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wandering
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Why Historians Sigh
I do history, which some maintain is a science but others assert is an art. It is both, I believe, and I lean a bit toward the latter. And then there is myth-busting, which is sometimes impossible. We try. That’s … Continue reading
The Boys with the Shovels: The CCC at Pokagon State Park
For 62 years, veterans of the Civilian Conservation Corps, most of them from Company 556, have been coming to Indiana’s Pokagon State Park on the last Sunday in July, for the oldest continuous CCC reunion in the country. For the … Continue reading
Posted in On the Road Less Taken..., The Past is Ever Present..., Uncategorized
Tagged Angola Indiana, CCC, New Deal, Pokagon State Park, Steuben County, WPA
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Snow Wonder
Early January: It is snowing–a big, old-fashioned snow as pictured on the Christmas cards. The snow of my dreams, the snow of my childhood–at least as I remember it. I grew up in Michiana glacial lakeland where the prevailing winds … Continue reading
Posted in Country Girl in the City, The Past is Ever Present..., The Wonder of It All
Tagged lake effect, New Carlisle, sledding, snow, snowdrops
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On the Confectionery Trail: A Movable Christmastime Feast
A new tradition began a year ago. It happened to be on my mother’s birthday, which is why this trip is now marked to become an annual event though it was just a coincidence the first time. Mom is gone … Continue reading
Posted in Following in My Foodstops, The Past is Ever Present...
Tagged Christmas, Jeffersonville Indiana, nostalgia, Schimpff's, Zaharakos
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The Road Less Taken: Up the Pendleton Pike
Just a short trip from Indianapolis up Pendleton Pike is, well, the town of Pendleton, a pleasant place to play hooky for an afternoon. I discovered it years ago, exploring the charms of a nineteenth century road, Pendleton Pike. … Continue reading
The Road Less Taken: Underground Wonder
On my way to somewhere else in Ohio, there was something I wanted to see again, an old tourist attraction in which my daddy had carried me around when I was a toddler, so my mom always told me. I … Continue reading
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Tagged caves, Ohio, Ohio Caverns, roadside attractions
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In Search of the Lights
I’ve just returned from what has become in less than a decade one of our most cherished Christmas traditions, one that encompasses nostalgia, bittersweet memories, a road trip, and history. It was a visit to Frankfort, population 16,500 or thereabouts, … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Frankfort Indiana, nostalgia
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The Lake Remembers
I closed my eyes and just for a moment I was fifteen again, immersed in the embrace of Hudson Lake. The Bluebird was open and I could choose from eight different flavors of ice cream, served up by the large … Continue reading
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Tagged Hudson Lake, New Carlisle, nostalgia
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