Every third Saturday in May, a train of horse-drawn wagons makes its way across National Pike for the National Road Festival, also known as Pike Days. The event takes place all along Route 40 in Washington, Fayette and Somerset counties. Many homes along the road hold yard sales, and ...
A forecast of heavy rain Friday has prompted a change in one portion of the coming weekend’s National Road Festival. Bill Glowacki Sr., a wagon master, said the National Pike Wagon Train schedule has been altered to eliminate Friday’s departure from Claysville Park. Instead, the wagon ...
The Washington Spinners and Weavers Guild was founded 50 years ago and is still going strong. The group of about 30 members who are all interested in fiber, said club president Barbara Campbell of Grindstone. “Most of us do a little bit of spinning. A lot of the women are knitters. Several ...
Lois Bower-Bjornson wants to clear the air about the environment. It is not as clean as she believes it should be. An active activist, Bower-Bjornson is a Southwestern Pennsylvania field organizer with Clean Air Council, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that was founded before the Environmental ...
Since 1978, Bill Glowacki Sr. has spent a few days each May on a wagon train traveling Route 40. This year will be no different. Glowacki, of Mt. Pleasant, is the wagon master for a portion of the National Pike Wagon Train, which takes to the streets May 18 and 19 to visit communities in ...
From wildlife management to water runoff, area farmers face myriad issues that impact their ability to get their crops to market. Every year, representatives from the 54 county farm bureaus that make up the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau take those concerns to Harrisburg. “We take one day out of ...
