Birdhouse by J. Warren Jacobs

J. Warren Jacobs (1868-1947), of Waynesburg, Greene County, was an artist, essayist, poet, bird watcher, and woodworker. A versatile individual, he fashioned cabinets, display cases, and furniture for his library and the “J. Warren Jacobs Museum of Applied Oology,” housed in two rooms on the second floor of the family’s residence on South Washington Street in Waynesburg. He...
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Soaring Above “This School in the Clouds”

Each fall, when north­west winds blast down from Canada, knowledgeable bird watchers hurriedly make their way to the Appalachian Mountain ridges that zig west, then zag south through the center of the Keystone State. Binoculars in hand, they climb and hike the rocky ridge tops to await the thousands of hawks, eagles, and falcons flying south­ward. Autumn’s winds have beckoned people to...
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