It’s History!: Castle Halloween Museum

The Castle Halloween Museum in Altoona features more than 35,000 Halloween-related items. Museum founder and curator Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell has been collecting Halloween memorabilia for nearly 50 years. The collection includes folk art, sculptures, Halloween-themed product packaging, pottery face jugs, voodoo flags, and more. Come along with It’s History! and explore the Castle Halloween Museum. […]

It’s History!: Appalachian Trail Museum

Founded in 1921, the Appalachian Trail runs 2,190 miles between Maine and Georgia, including 229 miles in Pennsylvania. The Appalachian Trail Museum is located near the midpoint of the trail in Pine Grove Furnace State Park. The exhibits tell the stories of the trail’s founders Benton MacKaye and Myron Avery and pioneer thru-hikers. Learn about […]

PA Books: Frontier Country

In “Frontier Country,” Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable, militarized boundary. The Pennsylvania frontier, Spero […]

It’s History!: The Maridon Museum

The Maridon Museum showcases an extensive collection of Chinese and Japanese art including jade and ivory sculptures, tapestries, landscape paintings, and scrolls. The museum also displays more than 300 pieces of German Meissen porcelain. Known for its detail and artistry, Meissen porcelain was the first to be made in Europe. The collection includes pieces depicting […]

PA Books: Playing Through The Whistle

In “Playing Through The Whistle,” celebrated sportswriter S. L. Price tells the story of this remarkable place, its people, its players, and, through it, a wider story of American history from the turn of the twentieth century. Aliquippa has been many things—a rigidly controlled company town, a booming racial and ethnic melting pot, a battleground […]

It’s History!: Museum of the American Revolution

The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia tells the story of America from the revolutionary crisis to the War of Independence to the efforts to create a new nation. Exhibits include a life-size reproduction of Boston’s Liberty Tree, George Washington’s headquarters tent, and a privateer ship. The Battlefield Theater lets you virtually experience what […]

State Employees’ Retirement System Audit

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale news conference on the audit of the State Employees’ Retirement System. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

PA Books: Teen Idol on the Rocks

Bobby Rydell writes of his encounters with such giants of 20th century show business as Frank Sinatra, Ann-Margret, The Beatles, Red Skelton, Jack Benny and Dick Clark, whose Philly-based American Bandstand helped make Rydell the world’s biggest teen idol in the years between Elvis Presley’s army induction and the advent of Beatlemania. Rydell also delves […]