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[13 Mar 2011 | Comments Off on Circle Of Life On Display At Cabela’s In Berks County | ]
Circle Of Life On Display At Cabela’s In Berks County

The first time I visited Cabela’s in Hamburg, Berks County, I felt like I had walked into a Jeff Foxworthy skit. I saw more plaid shirts than Larry the Cable …

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[29 Jan 2011 | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Skiing — A Great Way To Beat The Cold Weather Blues | ]
Pennsylvania Skiing — A Great Way To Beat The Cold Weather Blues

Eastern Pennsylvania just got a dumping of somewhere between 9 to 18 inches of snow, depending on where your shovel hit the pavement, and to be honest on days like …

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[14 Dec 2010 | Comments Off on Clark Griswold Had Nothing On Koziar’s Christmas Village | ]

When I was a kid and we lived in suburban Philadelphia, there was a man near Willow Grove who really went all-out with decorating his house every Christmas. My parents …

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[17 Nov 2010 | Comments Off on There’s More To Jim Thorpe Than Bike Trails and Haunted Jails | ]

As you climb the steep steps from Hazard Square in the center of Jim Thorpe and look up the hill to the mansion that, let’s face it, looms over the …

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[11 Nov 2010 | Comments Off on “… The Last Full Measure of Devotion” | ]

The first time I visited the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. was on a misty, chilly night when I was helping to chaperone about 100 of my son’s …

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[14 Oct 2010 | Comments Off on Open Gate Farm Tour Offers Family Fun and a Good Reminder | ]

The last time I heard any real numbers, the Lehigh Valley was losing farmland at a rate of about 3 square miles a year. I’m sure the current recession has …

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[10 Sep 2010 | 3 Comments | ]

On a sticky day in late August as the heat wave of 2010 was waging one of its last battles against the thermometer, the Cestere family from Long Island was …

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[4 Sep 2010 | Comments Off on Dutch Springs: Lehigh Valley Scuba Landmark Celebrates 30th Anniversary | ]

When you think about scuba diving, what exotic locations pop quickly to mind? The Florida Keys? The coast of Belize? Australia’s Great Barrier Reef?
How about Nazareth, Pa.? Didn’t think so.
But …