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May 23, 2021 The Double Cube Room. The 9th Earl placed the painting by van Dyck of Charles I’s children Credit: Will Pryce/Country Life In the early 18th century, Wilton House in Wiltshire underwent improvement at the hands of the 9th Earl of Pembroke, an enthusiastic amateur architect. For a new book on Wilton — to this day the seat of the Earl of Pembroke — John Martin Robinson assesses his remarkable legacy. Photography by Will Pryce and Simon Upton. The splendours of Wilton today owe a great deal to the early 18th century and the figure of Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke, (...

Penn State graduation brings needed business, if not normalcy, to State College Updated May 08, 2021; Posted May 08, 2021 Students in the Graduate School - masters and doctoral candidates - take part in graduation ceremonies, May 7, 2021. Penn State's commencement at University Park takes place from May 7-9 in Beaver Stadium. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com Facebook Share Thousands of students and loved ones gathered in State College this week for Penn State University’s in-person commencement ceremony, the first such gathering since the coronavirus pandemic began. The ceremony was l...

A question I’ve gotten a lot these past four years has been why I chose to go to Penn State. This question typically comes right after I explain that I’m from Chicago (don’t tell anyone, but I’m from Chicago in the same way that some of you are from “just outside of Philly”), and people want to know why I would choose Penn State over a closer Big Ten school like Illinois or Northwestern.  I like to make a joke that I couldn’t have gotten into Northwestern — which is probably true — or that I needed to get the hell out of Illinois, which is

increase font size The Wrap: Pigeons, pink waffles and blueberry wine A new Portland restaurant draws its name from the city-dwelling birds, and the Ocean restaurant in the Cape Arundel Inn & Resort opens Friday. Share Pigeons, the new project from Peter and Orenda Hale, has started taking reservations at pigeonsmaine.com for its May 12 opening. The restaurant is located in the former home of Drifters Wife, 59 Washington Ave. in Portland. Pigeons will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, with a daily happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. The all-day menu includes crudité, French ...

There are not many locally-owned businesses that would risk closing for over a year amid a global pandemic, but Chumley’s is no ordinary local bar. A staple in the downtown State College area since 1984, the bar reopened on April 14 for the first time after renovations forced the business to close its doors last year. Ellen Braun, the general manager at Chumley’s, has worked there since 1992 and said while the time away was needed, the loss of the community was “harder than [she] could have ever imagined.” In March 2020, just as the coronavirus was first detected in Centre...