Graveyard I used to run through all the time in the tiny PA town My first job out of college--minus a short stint at Dunkin--was at Highlights magazine. I was hired as an intern at their editorial offices based in Small Town, PA (why don't I want to say the name? Why does that seem …
Farewell, Pennsylvania
I never wanted to live in Pennsylvania. The cities weren't big enough and the land wasn't wild enough. To me, Pennsylvania was the Liberty Bell on one end and the Steelers' stadium on the other, with the strange groundhog that rivets the nation for one lone day in February somewhere in between. Everything about it …
In Their Own Words
"We’ve been opposed to the PennEast Pipeline that’s bringing natural gas through here, but the problem is it’s almost impossible to fight. It’s an interstate pipeline and interstate pipelines are approved by a federal agency called the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. It was set up in 2005 by a bunch of secret meetings that Dick …
Sierra Club, Lehigh Valley Group
If you're involved in the outdoors in any capacity, you've heard of the Sierra Club before. Headquartered in Oakland, California, and founded in 1892 by environmentalist and outdoorsman John Muir, the organization boasts three million supporters, making them the undisputed king of grassroots environmentalism. I met with Executive Committee member of the Pennsylvania Chapter Don …
People in Parks 