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State College Bride 2011
Much to love in State College magazine's Bridal issue! From Hadley Spanier's 2-continent wedding to the amazing cupcake trend to a goat as a surprise wedding crasher. It's all inside...
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I Could Have Danced All Night
July 11, 2011Most of us grew up with fathers who knew precisely which buttons to push or exactly how to embarrass us in front of our friends. We can recall memories of walking a good 15 feet ahead or behind our dad in the mall or ignoring...
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Where the Wild Things Are
May 16, 2011Sunrise on the equator is fast—a rapid-fire lightshow that turns the sky from pink to purple to orange.
It’s a scene many of us will never see, but Patricia House has been traveling to east Africa regularly for 25 years, and...
Artemis Among Us
April 11, 2011You could call her a modern-day Artemis with her preference for a bow and arrow when hunting animals like the grizzly bear.
But Stacee Frost, an Alaskan native and Penn State graduate, kills game like this every season. “The...
It's He-ster, not Hi-ster
January 4, 2011When Carolyn C. Smith wrote SCM last month to tell us we misspelled Hiester Street, it led to an interesting discovery—we, and most others in this town, have been mispronouncing it, too. The brick in the Centennial Walkway on...
We're No. 2
December 1, 2010We're No. 2
College towns come with their own vibe—traffic on game days paired against cultural entertainment, noisy parties next door to great libraries. It’s a mix, as those of us who live here know. But the mix must be tilted...
Running Circles Around Us
November 11, 2010Twelve-year-old Natasha Fedkina doesn’t even remember when she began running. It was at 4—an age most of us struggle to remember at all—that she was fast enough to begin participating in local track meets around State College. By...
From Murals to Little League
September 13, 2010Painting the Cafeteria Red“When you think of State College, what do you think of?” This is the question Kristie Putt, eighth grade art teacher at Park Forest Middle School, asked her students at the outset of her project to bring...
