October has been very, very busy! I'm trying to get both blogs caught up for the entire month, but apart from anything else, things have gone a bit haywire at my regular job and it's been frankly exhausting.
Among other things, I recently took a trip with my parents to visit my youngest sister. Until earlier this year, Liza had been living here in the Lehigh Valley in the same house with me, but now she's gotten a new job and a new place farther west. So we made a trek out to see her and her boyfriend Taylor and their new residence, and afterward we went out for lunch with some of her friends from her new church.
There happened to be a marker between her house and the restaurant, which I didn't even see - my stepdad Ravi caught sight of it, and was even so kind as to be the one to hop out and run across the street to get a photo. And that is how I ended up telling you today about how the first commercial telegraph line in the country was set up right here in Pennsylvania.
