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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The Source: Native American Quarries in Pennsylvania

Sitting in a folding chair in front of an informational table at the annual Danville Heritage Festival, PennDOT archaeologist Susanne Haney considers an inch-and-a-half-thick, dinner-platesized fragment of metarhyolite. Susanne is one of the most accomplished flintknappers I know. Flintknapping is the prehistoric art of producing stone tools by shaping various kinds of suitable rock with stone...
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