Pennsylvania

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The Army Heritage Trail

Visited October 2019.

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Carlisle’s Old Public Graveyard
Return to cemeteries.

The only map available for visiting the graveyard was found on the Internet. Sadly, it was not accurate enough to allow finding all of the significant memorials and markers.

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Country Show

Held at a campground where Grandma and Grandpa pitched a tent in 1982, the show included performers Little Jimmy Dickens, Tom T. Hall and Jeannie C. Riley. Your grandparents do not remember where the show was held.

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Farmington

Loaded with interesting stuff from George Washington's early life.
Visited 15 August 2022.

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Frances Slocum State Park

Near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Date visited 19 October 2019.

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Gettysburg

The Gettysburg National Military Park, the veteran's cemetery, the Eisenhower Farm, the Evergreen cemetery and some local shots.

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Harrisburg Air Show

Show held September 1991.

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Jim Thorpe

The town of Mauck Chunk (pronounced Mock Chunk) was renamed Jim Thorpe after Thorpe's first wife had him buried there.
Date visited 18 October 2019.

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Lititz, Home of the World's First Pretzel Factory

Visited 21 October 2019.

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Longwood Gardens

Visited Summer of 1990.

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Meadville

Wings of Eagles A World War II Air Show Attended 2 July 1988.

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Philadelphia

Visits in 1982 and 1991 for a volksmarche during the annual convention.

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Pittsburgh and Environs

Grandma Bert's August 2022 photos while Grandpa Roy worked their way through and around the city on their way home from Ohio.

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Pittsburgh International Airport, Pennsylvania

The photos were taken while taxiing past the Air National Guard facility at the airport.

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Pocono Mountains

Pocono Mountain resorts were once famous for honeymooners.

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Reading Air Show

The Reading airshow photos were taken with an old Sony Mavica camera and are not as large and high quality as later photos.

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Renfrew Museum & Park

Visited 22 October 2019.

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Rodeo

Your grandparents attended this rodeo held somewhere not far from Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1982.

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Steamtown National Historic Site

Scranton, Pennsylvania
Visited 20 October 2019.

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Valley Forge

Valley Forge is famous for where Washington's army spent one winter while the Red Coats were in Philadelphia, not too many miles away. Contrary to paintings from the era, there was not a lot of snow and it was not very cold that winter.

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Wilkes-Barre Hotel

A few photos from where Grandma and Grandpa stayed for two nights to attend Chase and Khala's wedding in October 2019.

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Willow Grove Airshow

The Willow Grove airshow photos were taken with an old Sony Mavica camera and are not as large and high quality as later photos.
Attended 14 September 2002.

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