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The Mütter Museum can be a hard button to swallow

21 Jan 201921 Jan 2019
A Pennsylvania farm boy in the 1870s was watching workers drill for oil on his family’s property. A drill bit fell into the well — usually this meant cutting one’s…
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Serene beauty of Mount Moriah Cemetery slowly resurrected by volunteers

12 Jan 201911 Jan 2019
12The earth is trying to take back Mount Moriah. So, too, is a passionate group of volunteers who are slowly, plot by plot, clearing brush and tangles of vine from…
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Eastern State Penitentiary: A penal system abandoned, a prison left in ruin

7 Jan 20196 Jan 2019
The air is stagnant, though the doors are open. It’s cool, and the kind of silent you don’t realize till someone points it out to you. The absence of sound…
Summer

Along for the ride at Fat Lenny’s punk rock candy shop

6 Sep 201712 Jan 2018
ERIE, Pa. — We knew something cool was going to happen before we even stepped into Fat Lenny’s. We knew it because it was called Fat Lenny’s, but also because…
Summer

Randyland: A peaceful excursion in Pittsburgh’s Mexican War Streets

21 Aug 201727 Sep 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP3djRXvvr8 PITTSBURGH — The unique art space The Mattress Factory was already there, and so was the Andy Warhol Museum, so Randy Gilson didn’t exactly step into a void when…
Summer

Ray’s Hill Tunnel and its abandoned Pennsylvania turnpike

14 Aug 201721 Aug 2017
BREEZEWOOD, Pa. — I had driven through the night, fueled by coffee and restored by an hour-long nap at a “unique area” in New York. I had detoured us to…

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