Author: Stu

On our way to Niagara Falls, we make a fairly far-off side stop at a little place I’d been meaning to see for years –… read more World’s Smallest Church (Cross Island Chapel)

Indian Echo Caverns were the first caverns I ever went to.  I was only 10 or so and the family took a weekend trip to… read more Indian Echo Caverns

In 1948, Colonel Mahlon M. Haines, the owner of several shoe stores in PA & MD, decided to implement what is likely the ultimate advertising… read more The Shoe House

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site consists of a restored town from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as ruins of a blast furnace.  Iron… read more Hopewell Furnace

Remember that long list of explorers you had to learn in school and likely forgot all of now, besides Christopher Columbus (which is tragic honestly,… read more Henry Hudson Springs

Hamilton/Burr Got Milk? commercial from sometime in the 90’s In the early days of this country, if you didn’t get along with a political rival,… read more Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr Duel Site

Probably the only instance I’ve come across where the gift shop is far more entertaining than the attraction itself.  Lost River Caverns’ gift shop is,… read more Lost River Caverns

If you’re in eastern PA, you see quite a few signs on the highways for various caverns.  Over the summer, I decided to check some… read more Crystal Cave