End of the Road: Relocating and Preserving the Appalachian Trail in the Cumberland Valley

Craig Dunn and Karen Lutz are two of my oldest friends. We go back to the late 1970s, decades before we had gray hair, artificial joints or any of the other hard-won infirmities the years have bestowed on us. We are sitting together in a restaurant, contemplating our lunch menus and catching up. Karen is a ball of energy and action, even now in her 70s — passionate, fiercely loyal, mischievous...
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Editor’s Letter

The three features in this edition of Pennsylvania Heritage focus on endeavors by visionary individuals to change or improve some aspect of life in the Keystone State. One of the earliest struggles for Black civil rights in Pennsylvania — the effort to desegregate streetcars — took place in Philadelphia during the Civil War era. The operators of the 19 streetcar companies in the city at that...
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