This might be the first in a beer garden (or more Germanically correct, “Biergarten”) mini-series here at One New Place. All in the service of a higher good: I’m researching venues for a German literature event. I suffer so for the arts! Dacha is a congenial place that seems to place equal emphasis on both…
I wouldn’t really recommend Life Asset as a tourist destination; in fact, it is not. But it worked out great as a volunteer headquarters for our neighborhood’s annual “Adams Morgan Day” festival today And since I was kind of tied to the neighborhood as a volunteer, it worked out well as a New Place. I…
Does virtual reality count as a New Place? If so, I scored big tonight, as I made my first excursion into that realm. I also scored pretty well in the brick-and-mortar New Places department, with this very cool museum, Artechouse (No, not “artichokes,” dear Autocorrect), and a whole new street in SW DC (Maryland Avenue),…
I’m fine, no worries! Just needed to report here for a doctor’s appointment today. I’ve been on the MedStar Campus before (at the Rehab Hospital and the Physician’s Building) and thought I knew my way around, but apparently, I don’t. The good news is that my appointment was in a whole new (to me) building—the…
Today, I had some especially cute fellow explorers who showed me this beautiful lake in Lebanon County, PA, that might as well have been a mirror set in the earth, reflecting the sky, the clouds and the rim of trees that surrounded it. A kayak made a few ripples far off on the other side, and…
Apparently Pennsylvania wine is a thing now! Who knew? About four or five wineries have popped up within driving distance of my hometown in about as many years. Tonight I visited Folino’s Estate, which appealed because it also had a nice restaurant for a “farewell Pennsylvania dinner.” Built in the style of an Italian stone…
Today I got a bottom-to-top, including rooftop, tour of this 1910 flatiron building in Bethlehem PA that would have been pretty cool just from an architectural perspective. (Hey! It’s a triangle, not a rectangle!) But the coolest thing about today’s New Place was meeting the people who work here. Today’s tour was pretty much of…
Set up on a knoll above Hamburg, beneath spreading old trees, and behind an indecisive stone wall, St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery is a place many of the living (like me) just drive by. Today, desperate for a close-by new place, I decided to visit. Designated a Berks County Historical Site, the most interesting part of…
Sometimes you just have to turn right! I have driven by Deer Lake, a small town with a lake (and probably deer, although I didn’t see any) innumerable times in my life. It’s just four miles north of my hometown, after all. But I never turned right off the highway and explored the town or…
Continuing my ice cream series here at One New Place with this “Sweet” place. This little shop has been in my hometown at least 10 years. Can’t imagine why I never stopped there before? Probably because I was used to going to the same ol’ ice cream shops. Now that the “ice” is broken, I…