WORDS BY RICK DAPP
If you travel down Route 15 from Harrisburg to Dillsburg, and steer off the four lanes that carry thousands of vehicles past that community daily, and turn left at the bank and onto Baltimore Street, you’ll...
WORDS BY RICK DAPP
On a thoroughfare connecting the brash commercialism of Paxton Street to the more subdued tone of Derry Street exists a building, and the site of a park steeped in history that goes virtually unnoticed by those ...
Could mining return to the Susquehanna River?
Given the current federal administration’s stance on coal as an energy source it’s interesting to note that the black stuff that has played such an important role in Pennsylvania’s economic history has relied...
Words by Rick Dapp
A view from the Doyle shows the building's proximity to the Appalachian Trail.
Harrisburg, due to its dual role as state capital and transportation hub, has long been a town with a lot of hotels. At...
Words by Rick Dapp
Every region of the United States is blessed with food offerings that are idiosyncratic and, though they are exported to other parts of the country, remain identified with their place of origin. Central Pennsylvania is not...
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 Spanish in influence with a...
BY RICK DAPP
Before there was television, before there were videotapes and VCRs (or Betamax for those unfortunate enough to believe that it would succeed), before there was Blu-ray, before streaming video, before you could watch a motion picture on...
The Old Camelback Bridge
BY RICK DAPP, PHOTO BY CASSIE MILLER
With the third installment of fuel-tax increases that were mandated by Act 89, the legislation that assured Pennsylvania the premier ranking of having the highest gas taxes in the nation,...
WORDS BY RICK DAPP
Central Pennsylvania is, providentially, endowed with a number of first-rate colleges and universities: Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Elizabethtown, Dickinson – to name just a few. Harrisburg, though, has had a somewhat difficult time of it, over...
The First Digital Network
BY RICK DAPP
When Samuel F.B. Morse created the code that bears his name and the device with which it would be used, he was one of the few who probably knew how important it would be...