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1 week 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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2 weeks 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?
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2 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.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?
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2 weeks ago | 
latrobebulletinnews.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?E6CDE2E6 fhX[ 9625:?8 ?@CE9 2?5 D@FE9 :? H6DE6C?
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3 weeks ago | 
leadertimes.com | Dave Hurst
They looked like a line of hibernation dens for black bears – a row of 16 cavities with misshapen semi-circular openings, set into a bank barely higher than the openings themselves. The bears wouldn’t have much privacy, though, since the openings are up to 12 feet wide and 6 feet high. On this first day of spring, only hints of green could be seen.
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3 weeks ago | 
latrobebulletinnews.com | Dave Hurst
They looked like a line of hibernation dens for black bears – a row of 16 cavities with misshapen semi-circular openings, set into a bank barely higher than the openings themselves. The bears wouldn’t have much privacy, though, since the openings are up to 12 feet wide and 6 feet high. On this first day of spring, only hints of green could be seen.
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4 weeks ago | 
leadertimes.com | Dave Hurst
The Grand Canyon. Disney World. Gettysburg. Their names alone suffice to evoke vivid images: the awe-inspiring width, depth and grandeur of the Grand Canyon; the sounds, lights, sights and rides of Disney World; the charging cavalry horses, acrid black-powder smoke and deafening cannon roar of Gettysburg. kAmq2D65 FA@? G:D:E2E:@?[ 9@H6G6C[ v6EEJD3FC8 >:89E?’E D66> E@ 36=@?8 @? E96 =:DE] u:7EJ\6:89E >:==:@? G:D:E@CD H6?E E@ s:D?6J (@C=5 :? a_ab[ 7:G6 >:==:@? G:D:E@CD 8@ E@ E96 vC2?5 r2?J@?
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Dave Hurst
The Grand Canyon. Disney World. Gettysburg. Their names alone suffice. Images immediately come to mind: the awe-inspiring width, depth and grandeur of the Grand Canyon; the sounds, lights, sights and rides of Disney World; the charging cavalry horses, acrid black-powder smoke and deafening cannon roar of Gettysburg. kAmq2D65 FA@? G:D:E2E:@?[ 9@H6G6C[ v6EEJD3FC8 5@6D?’E D66> E@ 36=@?8 @? E96 =:DE] u:7EJ\6:89E >:==:@? G:D:E@CD H6?E E@ s:D?6J (@C=5 :? a_ab[ 7:G6 >:==:@? G:D:E@CD 8@ E@ E96 vC2?5 r2?J@?
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1 month ago | 
latrobebulletinnews.com | Dave Hurst
Their names alone suffice. Images immediately come to mind: the awe-inspiring width, depth and grandeur of the Grand Canyon; the sounds, lights, sights and rides of Disney World; the charging cavalry horses, acrid black-powder smoke and deafening cannon roar of Gettysburg. Based upon visitation, however, Gettysburg doesn’t seem to belong on the list.
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1 month ago | 
latrobebulletinnews.com | Dave Hurst
With 650 trails, covering more than 14,000 miles, Pennsylvania claims to be the nation’s leading developer of trails – hiking, mountain-biking, multi-use (including equestrian), motorized and rail-trails. The state’s goal, according to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, is to have a trail within 10 minutes of every Pennsylvanian. Here in the Alleghenies, DCNR has to be close to achieving that goal, because we have dozens of trails around the region. kAm~FC C68:@?
