Yup, another farm today. I must in Berks County, PA. Today’s New Place is actually a very old place. The brick house dates to 1868, but the farm is much older, harking back to revolutionary war times. Indeed, its history (which you can read about here) includes the grandfather of Daniel Boone and the sons of William…
Got a back-fields, off-road, personal tour of Yellow Rose Farm tonight, complete with setting sun, rising (full) moon, browsing deer, and a free kitten (I turned down the kitten). The corn was indeed as high as the elephant’s eye, and the hay, recently cut and fragrant, was just waiting to be baled. It was fun to be…
I just found the cutest Post Office in America! No kidding! If it’s not absolutely the cutest, it’s in the running for the top five—I’d bet money on this one. I’ve always thought this post office looked adorable from the outside: The porch welcomes passers-by with two “sitting” chairs, where you half expect to see…
Sweet memories, indeed, of chocolate chip cookie cheesecake, I have after my visit to Sweet Memories today. The roasted veggie burrito and pumpkin & wild rice soup were also memorable, and gave me a platform of edifying righteous healthiness, from which I could deign to indulge in one the delectables inside the bakery case. It…
You got to love a school that paints a colorful map of the United States on its playground–give the little explorers New Places to dream about! I would have loved that when I was a kid. Tilden Elementary School, where I did not go to school, but some of my friends did, is just…
I wonder what else I have been driving past my entire life at 70 mph? Harrisburg is a city I have driven through over a thousand times, no kidding. Back and forth to college, back and forth to grad school, back and forth to DC, I have passed through Harrisburg on a bridge going about…
Sometimes seeing a new place is as easy as walking with a friend by a building you have walked by many times, saying to each other, “I wonder if that is open.” “Shall we try?” “Sure.” “Why not?”, putting your hand on the door handle, testing it, raising your eyebrows at each other in surprised…
New Places, new friends! Meet “Snappy” the star of today’s New Place. Snappy lives at the Anacostia Park Aquatic Resources Education Center where he entertains himself by terrifying dogs and small children. Lola was, shall we say, not amused when Snappy’s prehistoric head rose up from the depths of his aquarium to glare out of…
I was up in the Forest Hill neighborhood of DC again today for the third (and probably final) time, so decided to go a little deeper in my exploration there. I was actually looking for a park/playground I saw on the map, but instead I stumbled on this ginormous “mystery mansion.” What is it? Who…
I intended to explore a New Place in Silver Spring, MD, today, as a doctor’s appointment took me up there, but plans got waylaid when the blankety-blank eye doctor dilated my pupils, causing my eyeballs to feel like somebody had ripped a bandage off of them in the bright August sun. I was in no…