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FOOT NOTES: Making a comeback from Covid
I’m not the fastest runner, but somehow I was able to outrun the Covid-19 virus for more than four years. That all changed...
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LOCAL HISTORY: July 1864, Chambersburg and Frederick are held for Ransom
During America’s Civil War, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman uttered a famous quote: “War is hell”. Sherman’s scorched-earth campaigns never touched the Cumberland...
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SNIFF NOTES: The Value of Microchips
It happens so fast it, it momentarily stuns her. Titus had lived inside the house for the last fourteen years and he never...
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LOCAL HISTORY: The C&O Canal; Evolution of a Transportation Icon
When the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal’s first-phase eastern section was completed in 1850, the ambitious transportation project was already obsolete. The 184.5 mile-long...
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SNIFF NOTES: The Cats from the Summer
There were 21, all at one time. They had been abandoned in a home and left on their own. Twenty-one cats all came...
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FOOT NOTES: To listen or not to listen
Every time we lace ’em up and hit the road, there’s a decision we have to make before we step out the door:...
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LOCAL HISTORY: John Brown’s path toward immortality
In June of 1859, John Brown secretly arrived in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was already a polarizing national figure, wanted for multiple murders...
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SNIFF NOTES: What now?
I didn’t expect the house to be so quiet. I knew it would be a little strange, but this is almost cacophonous in...
