The Art of History
By R Thomas Berner | March 1, 2024
Next time you look at the historic tablets in Bellefonte, don’t just read the text; also examine the drawings of each historic site. They were done with a graphite pencil...
Happy Trails to You
| March 1, 2024
If you like to hit the trail, more will be available in Rothrock State Forest in the years ahead, according to Jay Ziegler, chair of the board of the Rothrock...
Making Mechs
By Barbara Young | Bald Eagle Area School District | March 1, 2024
The Bald Eagle Area High School junior Adrienne Hacker gingerly steps on a 4-foot by 8-foot game table, adjusting the positions of wooden people, or “meeple.” Reaching from the side...
A Wide-Ranging Appetite
By Grace Pilato | March 1, 2024
Grace Pilato gracepilatostudios@gmail.com Multi-Media Artist I began my career as a registered nurse while starting a family in New York City. For pleasure, I began making paper flowers and...
There Be Dragons
By Paula Bannon | Schlow Centre Region Library | March 1, 2024
Lately, it seems like everywhere you look in the book world there are dragons. Adult books like the bestselling Fourth Wing series, books for middle grade readers like Tui Sutherland’s...
Oncology pharmacists can help navigate treatment
By Kara Cooper, PharmD, Jessica Curtis, PharmD, Geisinger Health System | March 1, 2024
If you’re being treated for cancer, you’re probably taking a range of medications, likely in the clinic, at an infusion center and at home. Making sure you have all your...
Roll Credits
By Graham Spanier | March 1, 2024
Every profession has its jargon, every field of study its definitions, and every technology its sometimes quirky meanings. So it goes with filmmaking. Glossaries of terms in the profession of...
Spring Awakening
By Rebecca Dale | Photos By Georgianna Sutherland | March 1, 2024
Whenever March rolls in I am ready for winter to be over. As chef Anne Corr writes in her wonderful cookbook, Seasons of Central Pennsylvania, (2000): “March is an...
Ode to Spring Wines
By Robert D. Richards, CSW | March 1, 2024
Although the weather doesn’t always co-operate, the calendar says this is the month that spring arrives. In wineries that also means some new releases are about to reach the shelves...
Romance of the Farm
By R Thomas Berner | Photo by Georgianna Sutherland | March 1, 2024
In 1996, James P. Lesher Jr. started what became his current job by saying to the owner of Rhoneymeade: “You needed a gardener.” From there Lesher became gardener, landscaper, arborist,...