The St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, in Trenton, NJ, has a Gun Violence Memorial, which includes 32 crosses, for the 32 people that had died due to gun violence in the Trenton area. On October 18, 2020, the Rev. Paul Jeanes III, from the Trinity Church of Princeton, gave a speech about this gun violence, which […]
Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian met at University of Pennsylvania. They played in a few bands called “Wax” and “Baby Grand”, but decided to try it on their own after joining forces with drummer David Uosikkinen. They set up a writing and recording space in the Manayunk section of town, along the Schuylkill River and […]
The current band consists of Andy Hall (Dobro), Andy Falco (guitar), Chris Pandolfi (banjo), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle), and Travis Book (double bass). As with most groups that have been around for a decade and a half, there have been some changes in personnel. The origins of the group date back to the early 2000’s on […]
An amalgam of GoPro videos as I traveled Route One in the sunny South. Dashcam shots from Columbia, SC, Lexington, SC, Augusta, GA, Wrens, GA, and Waycross GA set to John Hyatt‘s song “Drive South” performed by Suzy Boggus. Maybe you’ll recognize some of these places. If you grew up here, please comment and LMK! […]
Directly on Route One in the little hamlet of Mystic, Ct is the pizza joint that inspired a hit movie that launched the career of Julia Roberts in 1988. Mystic Pizza lent its name, but not its location to the film. The movie was filmed in nearby Stonington. Today, Mystic Pizza is still a popular […]
There are many victims of gentrification and raising rents in New York City, including many of its historic delis and diners – for example, The Carnegie Deli which was located next to Carnegie Music Hall went out of business in 2016. While people want ‘authentic’ New York experiences in the form of longstanding businesses and […]
Used bookstores – and brick and mortar bookstores in general – are something of an endangered species. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the number of used bookstores has declined by over 50% in the years between 1998 and 2019, from 12,151 to 6,045. There are a variety of factors, from rising rents to decreased […]
This is Peety, he is a rescue mutt but the cutest and funniest mutt you ever did see. Peety’s sidekick is Gus Gus, a hedgehog. They are beaching it on JAX beach Florida, one block East of “Route 1”. They can be seen with their owner/ rescuer “Red beard Billy” a character in his own […]
Eartha, the world’s largest revolving and rotating globe, is in Yarmouth, Maine. It was built in 1998, in the headquarters of the DeLorme Mapping Corporation. The globe weighs 5,600 pounds, has a diameter of 41 feet, and was built at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Like most globes, it’s mounted at a 23.5-degree angle, the same […]
In 1902, the patient population at Danvers State Hospital had grown too large for the facilities to support. They purchased 100 acres near the border of Danvers and Middleton so that the farm could expand, and another long-term facility could be constructed. The Middleton Colony opened in 1903 in Middleton, MA. It originally housed 300 […]
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