Category: Offbeat Outings (Page 1 of 2)

Looking across a cemetery with a paved road and many masonry grave markers on a hillside surrounded by wooded areas, homes, and mountains.

Offbeat Outing to the Mauch Chunk Cemetery

December 18, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

Site visits to the Commonwealth’s many communities and historic places are routine for most SHPO staffers and one of the best parts of our jobs.

Pithole or Bust!

July 24, 2024 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 1 Comment

Last month, PA SHPO staff and interns enjoyed a two-day educational team meeting in Venango County to learn more about archaeology, northwest Pennsylvania, and the area’s fascinating history. We were fortunate enough to have some beautiful weather and the help of our local partners and colleagues from the Jefferson County History Center, Drake Well, PHMC Sites and Museums, and the State Museum.

Group of people standing outside on a lawn.

SHPO Staff Explore Lackawanna County

November 16, 2022 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

My SHPO colleagues and I, just like the rest of the world, are continuing to emerge from our COVID cocoons. We’ve been getting out and about more each month but still find ourselves wanting to be physically connecting with places in every way we can.

Paved path through cemetery with grass, trees, and stone markers of various shapes and sizes. — Path through Harrisburg Cemetery, April 2021.

Exploring the Harrisburg Cemetery

April 14, 2021 / Elizabeth Rairigh / 9 Comments

Spring has sprung in Harrisburg! So when I was deciding what National Register resource to focus on for this week’s blog post, my office mate/dining room table neighbor/husband suggested we take a walk through Harrisburg Cemetery, listed in the National Register in 1985.

Should I go left or right at the next historical marker?

November 4, 2020 / Guest Contributor / 1 Comment

There are only so many times I could run to the Race Street Pier or the Art Museum steps… I needed my next destination.

Undated file photo of the pool at Bendigo State Park in Elk County.

Dip into History: Five Historic Pools and Swimming Holes in Pennsylvania

June 10, 2020 / Elizabeth Shultz / 4 Comments

Summer is definitely here in Pennsylvania! And when the weather turns hot and humid, my mind turns to swimming and lazy days by the water.

Walking the Harrisburg Historic District

February 5, 2020 / Karen Arnold / 5 Comments

Did you know that the first American Heart Month took place in February of 1964, over two years before the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966?

Two photographs of two wood CCC buildings. — Views of the CCC mess hall/dining hall during the project. Photos by Barbara Frederick, 2019.

Laurel Hill State Park and HistoriCorps: Partnership for Preservation

July 10, 2019 / Elizabeth Shultz / 0 Comments

In preservation, it is often observed that one of the most promising tactics for the achievement of a “preservation win” is the engagement of as diverse a collection of partners as possible to participate in the project at hand.

Green Book cover — Cover from the 1956 Green Book from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "The Negro Travelers' Green Book: Fall 1956"New York Public Library Digital Collections.Accessed February 1, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9c454830-83b9-0132-d56a-58d385a7b928.

Offbeat Outing: The Green Book in Philadelphia

February 6, 2019 / Emma Diehl / 5 Comments

Some of my colleagues are known to check their Facebook accounts while they drink their morning coffee, and on more than one occasion that has resulted in a Facebook message or email with the subject line “I have a great idea…” One of these great ideas led to one of the more interesting, informative, and eye-opening surveys I’ve done – Green Book locations in Philadelphia. Continue reading