PSoTD

When I was on vacation, my "airplane book" was The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation, written by Sally Jenkins. I was watching Charlie Rose about a month ago, and Ms. Jenkins was on to discuss her book, which covers the football team of the Carlisle Indian School (you may remember the name of Jim Thorpe) during its day, as well as the history of the school.

It's a pretty fascinating book and an easy read, and if you're looking for something in the sports and history vein, I heartily recommend it.

We've lived about 10 miles from Carlisle for 16 years now, and I guess one of the most surprising things about the Carlisle Indian School at this point is that there's little, if any, effort to generate any tourism relating to it. There's some opportunity, I expect, and it will be interesting to see if this book spurs an effort to do more.

BTW, while I was digging around on this book, I spotted this blog on Carlisle Indian School Connections, and wanted to highlight it.

For those that enjoy it (and I do!), there will be zydeco music reverberating at Creekview Park in Hampden Township this Friday evening.

The battle continues between the City of Harrisburg and the General Services Administration over the placement of the new Federal Courthouse.

Midstate officials have written to the General Services Administration urging the federal agency not to devour "productive taxable land in the heart of the [Harrisburg's] Restaurant Row" for a new federal courthouse.

The letter, spearheaded by Dauphin County Commission Chairman Jeff Haste, is to be delivered today to Abby Low, the administration's project manager in Philadelphia. The letter is being delivered a day before opponents of the two sites are to meet at St. Patrick Cathedral in Harrisburg.

Last month, GSA officials announced plans to build a $100 million federal courthouse on the southeast corner of North Second and Locust streets or at the southwest corner of North Third and Pine streets.

I don't understand why the bureaucrats at the General Service Administration want to go against the judgement of every local interest and jam the building in the middle of Restaurant Row. Apparently the GSA's overriding concern is easy access to quality lunch spots for judges and lawyers.

Heading down to Price's Seafood in Havre de Grace today to do some blue crab picking where the Susquehanna River meets the Chesapeake Bay. They've always had great crabs but the place used to be a little beat up. Word is they recently remodeled. Their black pepper seasoning is kickin'!

We should be there around 2:30. Stop in and say hey!

It just might be the Saturn Dealership on the Carlisle Pike in Mechanicsburg. I have to get a picture of that thing. Humungous.

To the Cowboy Junkies for including Harrisburg in their stops this October.

I didn't even know Harrisburg had a fire museum. Nice work, Mike Legeros.

Good grief, I go away to a softball tournament in Greencastle for the day, and we're linked to at Eschaton. I knew I was holding back the popularity of this blog...

While in Greencastle, I actually saw a family using a styrofoam cooler. For some reason, I thought they were gone from general consumer use - I haven't seen them in a long time.

I've never seen a barn webcam before. Apparently it's a pretty big business. Welcome to Greencastle, PA.

I wonder what Nancy Eshelman's opinion would be about restaurants that utilize the right to triple the price to convicted felons. And that the law allowed that. And that because it started as a practice a zillion years ago, it's the way it should be, and every restaurant did it because every restaurant did it.

Why, it's a business choice?

I'm tired of Eshelman using the Patriot to bang the gong for smokers. And why doesn't government belong in the workplace to protect the health of employees? Hey, why allow government to inspect amusement rides? Just let the public figure out what's safe and what's not.

I'd be more likely to read the Patriot-News on a daily basis if it didn't waste valuable space on Eshelman's writings. They need to hire some folks that can regularly make logical points in their writings.