I'm on a quest to photograph and research all of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's historical markers. This is my quest journal so you can join me on my adventures every Wednesday! Blog owned and written by Laura Klotz. Marker images used with permission of the PHMC. Header image created by Rachel Peeples.
Happy Valentine's Day! It's also Ash Wednesday, for those who observe the Easter holidays. We got hit with a fast-moving snowstorm yesterday which dumped an entire foot of snow on my neighborhood, but fortunately, we never lost power so here I am.
I invited the followers of the blog's Facebook account to vote on this week's topic. It was very nearly a three-way tie, but by a margin of one vote, we had a winner. He gained international renown for his rather unusual approach to world peace.
Today I'm a bit distracted by the fact that it's my grandfather's birthday. He would have been 91 today, and I miss him a lot. He would, I think, really have loved what I'm doing with this blog; he was fascinated by history (that's probably where I get it) and I'm sure that he would have been bugging me to go on marker-hunting road trips with him. But he's the one who taught me to drive, so in a sense he always goes with me.
Of course, I'm not always the driver. On a recent road trip, my husband Kevin was driving; we missed a turn and were in the process of correcting the course when he asked, "Hey, are we near any of your markers?" We were in a Schuylkill County community called Ashland, and I remembered there was one. Much to my surprise, I turned my head to glance up a side street and there it was. So this week's post is a little bit of serendipity.
