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6 days ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Dave Hurst
While my intention was to mow the grass, when I stepped out onto the back porch, the plan got put on hold for a May moment. The afternoon was nothing spectacular by May standards. The sky was mostly cloudy with a few scattered patches of blue, dotted with darker clouds that hinted of the rain forecast to arrive in a couple of hours. kAm%96 FAA6C\e_D E6>A6C2EFC6 H2D 4@>7@CE23=6[ E96 :?E6C>:EE6?E 3C66K6[ A=62D2?E] w62C:?8 2 G2C:6EJ @7 3:C5 42==D[ x D2E 5@H? @?
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1 week ago | 
leadertimes.com | Dave Hurst
The hexagonal, cut-stone gatehouse stands distinctively at the entrance to Laurel Mountain ski slopes, just as it has since 1941, when Richard King Mellon first developed those slopes for members of the Rolling Rock Club. Back in those days, a guard would step out, holding out a silver plate. The would-be guest deposited a business card on the plate, the guard would call in the information and upon receiving approval would permit the visitor to pass on through.
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1 week ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Dave Hurst
The hexagonal, cut-stone gatehouse stands distinctively at the entrance to Laurel Mountain ski slopes, just as it has since 1941, when Richard King Mellon first developed those slopes for members of the Rolling Rock Club. Back in those days, a guard would step out, holding out a silver plate. The would-be guest deposited a business card on the plate, the guard would call in the information and upon receiving approval would permit the visitor to pass on through.
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2 weeks ago | 
leadertimes.com | Dave Hurst
While out on a field excursion in mid-March and curious to examine the remnants of a stone foundation, I warily stepped inside a tree line. There was almost no brush, just some bare branches and shoots that I tried to avoid. Ticks were the reason for my caution. On this mild early spring day there was no question they would be out questing.
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2 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Dave Hurst
While out on a field excursion in mid-March and curious to examine the remnants of a stone foundation, I warily stepped inside a tree line. There was almost no brush, just some bare branches and shoots that I tried to avoid. Ticks were the reason for my caution. On this mild early spring day there was no question they would be out questing.
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3 weeks ago | 
leadertimes.com | Dave Hurst
The “shot heard round the world” wasn’t just one shot from one gun in one place. This famous phrase, coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837, captured the series of events that happened in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. This was the day after Paul Revere’s famous “one if by land, two if by sea” ride, warning that soldiers of the British army were on the move. Colonial militia and “minute men” responded in passionate but disorganized fashion.
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3 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Dave Hurst
The “shot heard round the world” wasn’t just one shot from one gun in one place. This famous phrase, coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837, captured the series of events that happened in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. This was the day after Paul Revere’s famous “one if by land, two if by sea” ride, warning that soldiers of the British army were on the move. Colonial militia and “minute men” responded in passionate but disorganized fashion.
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3 weeks ago | 
latrobebulletinnews.com | Dave Hurst
The “shot heard round the world” wasn’t just one shot from one gun in one place. This famous phrase, coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837, captured the series of events that happened in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. This was the day after Paul Revere’s famous “one if by land, two if by sea” ride, warning that soldiers of the British army were on the move. Colonial militia and “minute men” responded in passionate but disorganized fashion.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Dave Hurst
Close to 100 informally dressed adults of all ages were gathered around a cut-stone wall at Juniata College in Huntingdon. As class photos go, though, this was rather different. Attending “Folk College,” these smiling students were joyfully brandishing a wide variety of musical instruments, including guitars, ukeleles, dulcimers, psalteries, dobros, hurdy-gurdies, washboards, fiddles, mandolins, concertinas and others I couldn’t identify.
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1 month ago | 
leadertimes.com | Dave Hurst
During my recent drive to Erie, a familiar sign appeared along the roadside near Butler. You’ve probably seen it: a round white circle, containing a blue field and a white profile of our nation’s first president. Above his head are the words “Washington’s Trail” and below his chin the date “1753.”kAm$A6?5 2?J E:>6 2E 2== @? DE2E6 2?5 &]$] 9:89H2JD W@E96C E92? x\fhX[ 9625:?8 ?@CE9 2?5 D@FE9 :? H6DE6C?
