by OntheRoadwithSusan | Aug 30, 2026 | Women in History
The engineer's wife who became the Brooklyn Bridge's true chief engineer She never held the title. For eleven years, she did the job anyway — walking the caissons, running the stress calculations, and answering to a Board of Trustees that never fully realized who was...
by OntheRoadwithSusan | Aug 21, 2026 | Pennsylvania Small Towns, Small towns in America
From a Harmonist Village to a Steel Town and the Community It Is Today. There are places I visit, and there are places that become part of who I am. For me, Ambridge is the second kind of place. I grew up here, surrounded by brick storefronts, church steeples, steep...
by OntheRoadwithSusan | Aug 19, 2026 | Pennsylvania Small Towns, Small towns in America
A Frontier Fort, A President's Summer Retreat, Covered Bridges And one very famous coffee Pot. Two days is all it takes to fall for this Allegheny mountain small town. A Fort Called Bedford Bedford’s story doesn’t begin with a town at all. It begins with a...
by OntheRoadwithSusan | Aug 18, 2026 | Pennsylvania Small Towns
This Pennsylvania small town that gave the world its most joyful dessert. and quietly shaped American culture along the way Some towns announce themselves. Latrobe just quietly kept adding to America’s story until the list of things it started got too long to...
by OntheRoadwithSusan | Apr 30, 2026 | Strawberry Festivals
I Chased Strawberry Season All Across Pennsylvania's Here's Every Sweet Shop There’s something about late spring in Pennsylvania that just feels right. The air warms up, back roads start calling, and suddenly—everything is strawberries. For me, strawberry festival...
