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The Penn’s Woods Music Festival has a succinct but important vision: “Inspiring a passion for live music in this and future generations.” The festival began in 1986 but ended in 2003 before being re-started in its current format at Penn State in 2008. The festival was begun to provide something the community did not…

Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, with an estimated 3.5 million new cases each year. Most skin cancer is the result of too much exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun or artificial sources. Over the past 30 years, the incidence of melanoma – the deadliest form…

After 10 years of retirement, I don’t get many “questions for the archivist” anymore, but I had an unexpected one not too long ago. My wife and a group of friends from the University Women’s Club were touring the campus of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Lunch had been arranged in a…

Hoag’s Catering has evolved from a part-time venture in 1947 to a 24/7 business, and now is beginning a new chapter. More than 70 years ago, Bill Moerschbacher Sr., a politician and a banker, started catering part-time along the way in Bellefonte. His son Bill became his partner in the early 1960s and pushed…

The Eisenhower Auditorium stage will be swimming in testosterone March 15 when Che Malambo, an all-male Argentinian dance company, performs a spectacle of percussive dance and music.

Michelle Dorrance, “one of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today” (The New Yorker), honors tap dance’s history while pushing its rhythmic, technical, and conceptual boundaries. By incorporating other forms that have shaped American culture — such as street, club, and experimental dance — her company highlights the traditional elements of tap and its musical…

Many people have fond memories of sitting at the kitchen table as a child, playing or talking. For Sean Bodley, these memories entail drawing landscapes and battle sketches. Bodley chuckles at a preschool memory of when he took the painting of a fellow preschooler’s parent, since he liked it so much. Bodley believes this…

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of Lisa Baumgartner’s most indelible memories is of pulling apricots from trees while riding her bicycle. She laments that Silicon Valley, as it’s known now, is heavily congested, but that fact doesn’t clutter her mind when she muses on the beauty of those scenic memories.…

It’s not uncommon when your teenager starts the junior high years for them to begin to talk about dating. How parents navigate this rite of passage into young adulthood sets the stage for helping your teen develop a solid self-worth and healthy dating habits. One of the most important things to avoid is shame.…