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As the months pass, as the cold temperatures and brisk winds of winter slip away, I am once again pleasantly reminded about what’s great about spring. Here is my list of a few things that makes it one of my favorite seasons: The Birds of Spring The barn swallow is a bird that’s seen on
It’s ready to be the King’s throne on his big day, but the oldest piece of furniture in the land has proved itself amazingly robust
Travels into North America Search within full text Print publication year: 2011 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139056182 Travels into North America Your name * Who would you like to send this to * Optional message Book description Peter Kalm (1716–79) was a Finnish-Swedish botanist who travelled extensively to observe the natural world in Sweden, Finland, Russia and Ukraine, and became a professor of 'oeconomie' - the economic application of subjects such as mineralogy, botany, zoology and chemistry - at the university of Turku. Between 1747 and 1751 he set out on a journey through ...
Ephrata Cloister became a state-owned historic site in 1941. By then, it had been a spot for tourists for hundreds of years. Michael Showalter, museum educator at the Ephrata site spoke about tourists at the site in the first session of the cloisterâs winter history class. Here are a few reviews from the earliest visitors. 1735 Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg and David Nitschmann, leaders in Pennsylvaniaâs Moravian Church, were the first known visitors to the cloister. Conrad Beissel had settled down on the banks of the Cocalico Creek in 1732. When the two Moravians visited, there wer...