Fifty years ago, Sue and I were both seniors in college. While she was only a quarter of the way into her student teaching semester in a...

The first residence for the president of the Pennsylvania Land Grant College (name changed in 1862 from the original Pennsylvania...

Third from the left in the above mid-1920s photo (probably taken at a birthday party), and below in a high school graduation photo, today...

Janset, the daughter of Gulya who is a Humphrey Fellow for whom Sue and I are community hosts this year, joined our family for dinner out...

Penn State students often question why the semester that starts in January is referred to as the “Spring Semester” as opposed to the...

This is my grandfather, Henry C. Layer (1884-1964), at age 17 in about 1901 according to notes on the back. I found it recently among...

According the Wikipedia, lizards in the genus Anolis, "...are some of the best examples of both adaptive radiation and convergent...

At 440 feet high, the biggest (tallest) wheel in Europe is the London Eye, a giant Ferris wheel in London on the banks of the Thames. It...

Though neither named nor incorporated at the time (that happened in 1896), a town started to develop across the street from the...