Today’s New Place is brought to us by my friend M, one of my favorite fellow explorers and a big fan of ONP. Knowing that I drive through the Tenleytown neighborhood here in DC often on my way back and forth to the hospital, she shared a few of her favorite places in this neighborhood,…
I finally found Fort Totten! Not the metro station, which is easy to find, but the actual location of the old Civil War fort in Northeast DC, which has been preserved as a park by the National Park Service. The last time I went looking for Fort Totten, my GPS took me to a cement…
Shhhhh. . . Don’t tell anyone: Although encouraged to “unplug” during the silent retreat here at the Claymont Society, I nonetheless snuck out my phone (in a secret undercover operation) during this morning’s walking mediation to grab photos for this blog– of meadows and sky, of a lazy creek too fat to slip through a…
Not your average barn! Today I took my first proper overnight trip in over a year, my first since starting this blog. So why did I travel two hours to see a barn?! Well, it’s a retreat center, renovated and air conditioned, with simple dorm rooms, a camp-style kitchen serving vegan meals (whose main charm…
Located in a 250-year-old Pennsylvania field stone house, the Hamburg Area Historical Society is like the old lady in town who knows everybody–and I mean e-ver-y-body who has ever lived or sneezed in this town. With every issue of the Hamburg Area High School yearbook dating back to the beginning of the school, and every…
No, it’s not just on the Monopoly Board, people! The Reading RR was a real RR that ran right behind my house growing up—connected with the Erie Canal system to transport coal and steel to the down-river ports. Today, I visited the old Port Clinton station, with its vintage steam engines and wooden station house…