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Remembering 9/11: ‘You Can’t Erase That Kind of Image’
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Clarabelle Lin’s train into Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001, took her past the World Trade Center before the two planes crashed into the towers. Hours later that evening, she was able to leave the city on a packed commuter train. She’ll never forget the sight of the smoke billowing from where the…
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Smoke on the Horizon: Rosemarie Fiore Brings Her Unique Art to Penn State
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Rosemarie Fiore’s works of art are truly one of a kind. Fiore produces artwork out of the actions of mechanisms by converting popular technology. In the past, she has turned amusement park rides, cars, fireworks, floor polishers, lawn mowers, pinball machines, and waffle irons into painting machines. The practice is known as fumage. Needless to…
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Recovery and Rebirth: Mark Morath Discusses Pandemic’s Impact on Hospitality Industry and His Plans for Helping Growth in Bellefonte
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Founder and CEO of Hospitality Asset Management Company (HAMCO), Mark Morath has managed hotels since the mid 1970s HAMCO, also known as Lion Country Lodging, employs more than 500 people throughout central Pennsylvania, where it has 15 hotels, and operates various restaurants, including Gigi’s Southern Table and Carnegie House in State College. Originally from Niagara Falls,…
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Keep the Fires Burning: Eagle Iron Works and Curtin Village
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Combine iron ore, limestone, charcoal, and water power, and you have the ingredients necessary to produce one of the most significant materials of the industrial age: iron. Centre County was part of a unique region in the United States that produced some of the highest quality iron on the market: Juniata Iron. In its prime,…
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Harvest Fields Community Trails Offers an Escape for Novice and Experienced Cyclists Alike
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If you spend a lot of time out on the trails of central Pennsylvania like I do, you are bound to come across many a mountain biker. Rothrock State Forest has become a hotspot for the sport, drawing people from all over the state and beyond to our rough and rocky trails. It amazing to…
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Drawing the Past: Director at Boal Mansion Museum Unearths Treasures ‘Beyond Expectations’
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Colonel Theodore Davis Boal, a descendent of Boalsburg’s founders, studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and designed buildings all over the country from the 1890s until at least 1915. His styles ranged from Georgian to Victorian, Neoclassical and Swiss Chalet, and his diverse legacy lives on in at least nine states. The…
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Moving Up in the World: Luxury High-Rise Apartments Are Changing the College Experience
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Everywhere you look, high-rise luxury student apartment buildings seem to be sprouting up in downtown State College, soaring up to the sky, changing the feel of the old college town. The one-word names of these goliath buildings seem to encompass what they are all about. From The Metropolitan, The Rise, HERE and The Standard, these…
