In our daily life, we take many things for granted. One of them is gravity. We are taught from a young age in our science classes about the law of gravity: what goes up must come down. However, what if that isn’t always true? This…
Over the past few years, I’ve done a lot of traveling throughout every corner of Pennsylvania, and, without a doubt, one of the strangest things I’ve seen is the Sherman Memorial Lighthouse in Tionesta. Located on a peninsula at the confluence of the Allegheny River…
In the Lawrenceville neighborhood of downtown Pittsburgh, you’ll find a curious sight. Along busy Liberty Avenue is a church that draws hundreds of visitors every day. Wearing mostly casual clothes, they stream in and out of the church at all hours of the day and…
Passing motorists on highway 322 or the combined 11 and 15 just outside of Harrisburg might notice something odd atop an old railroad bridge piling in the middle of the Susquehanna River. In the few fleeting seconds that it’s visible from either road, it can…
Every February 2nd, one of the America’s strangest traditions occurs as Punxsutawney Phil is pulled out of his temporary burrow at Gobbler’s Knob to predict the weather. Upwards of 25,000 people brave the cold of an early February morning to catch a glimpse of this…
There are a lot of words that you could use to describe what it’s like to visit Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. But, the word that I would pick is “electric”. What makes the weather forecastings of an overgrown rodent so exciting is anyone’s guess….