2017
Did You Know: Farley Gannett
WORDS BY RICK DAPP Travel north on Second Street in Harrisburg, and slow down as you approach Division Street. On the right, there on the corner, is a house that doesn’t fit the neighborhood. It’s […]
Month: May 2017
2017
Academic Prowess
4 Central Pa. Scholarship Winners Words by M. Diane McCormick Photos by Haley Harned What do academic scholarship winners have in common, besides being super-students?“I like to sleep,” says Elizabethtown College’s Nelli Orozco.Blake Rondon, entering […]
2017
Summer Learning
How to Keep Young Minds Active Outside the Classroom Words by Chelsea Hess- Moore The bell rings for the last time this school year, and just like that, summer break begins. For many, it’s perceived […]
2017
Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer (Anchor, $17, 576 pages, Paperback) WORDS BY HARVEY FREEDENBERG Only a few months removed from the 2016 election, I […]
2017
Fresa Bistro on 3rd
At the lower level of Strawberry Square in Harrisburg with an entrance onto N. 3rd Street, the capital city’s lunch and early-dinner crowd gained a new hot spot this past March. Aptly named after the […]
2017
The Falconry Experience
WORDS BY M. DIANE MCCORMICK Photography by Cassie Miller Eyeball to eyeball with a hawk, you are transported to a primeval world of survival, where a tiny speck moving hundreds of yards away is your […]
2017
Sugar and Your Brain
WORDS BY BENTZ P. TOZER, JR., B.S., CPT Sugar is found in 75 to 80 percent of our food sources, and once it’s converted to glucose, it’s the primary fuel source for the entire body, […]
2017
Gallery Space
New Cumberland Woman is Lauded Practitioner in Region’s Visual Arts Milieu Words by Scott Campbell Barbara Passeri Warfel is well-known in the capital region’s fine arts community. Her reputation is, in the main, the culmination […]
2017
The Necessity of Recess
WORDS BY CASSIE MILLER For kids, so much of their elementary years happen on the playground. We all have fond memories of playing kickball, the swings and racing around with our school-aged friends, but for […]
2017
“Philling” Up for the Future
WORDS BY ANDY LINKER Not so long ago in Philadelphia, the Phillies won the World Series. Really. Honest. Happened only nine years ago; barely a nanosecond in baseball time, considering the Phillies took 97 years […]