Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Thomas Mifflin, Shillington, Berks County

I've gone back to work since I last updated this blog, and I just want to remind everyone that COVID-19 is still a thing. Please keep wearing your masks - and wearing them correctly. I have seen entirely too many people in recent days who are doing a spectacular job of protecting their chins.

Speaking of work, it directly led to today's blog post. Andrea and I were both feeling a little nostalgic for our annual trip to Lancaster, as I wrote last time, and by happy coincidence, we were asked to drive down there last week to get some supplies from one of our sister stores. Naturally, that involved some marker hunting on my part, and I came home with the single biggest haul of marker pictures I've ever collected on one trip. I think I got seven or eight in Lancaster itself, and also today's marker, which was only slightly out of our way in Berks County. It's been several months since I did a Berks marker, so we're overdue!

(Also, one final reminder - I'm still doing that giveaway! Just sign up for the mailing list to enter! Winners will be announced in my next post.)

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Lancaster County

I think my best friend Andrea is feeling a little wistful about our annual trip to Lancaster. Normally we're there every spring for Zenkaikon, but - like the vast majority of fan conventions - it was canceled because of COVID-19. We're planning to take a run down there sometime in the coming weeks to collect some more of my markers, but for this week's post she asked me to write about "something from Lancaster." So I thought, why not write about Lancaster itself?