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Gravity Hill – Caught on video

By Emily | Published: June 3, 2009
A few weeks ago for our post on gravity hills (stretches of land that appear to lead uphill, when they actually on a decline), I couldn’t find a decent YouTube video to illustrate the phenomenon. So over Memorial Day weekend, I filmed one myself in Bedford County, Pa. Here’s the very short video:
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Wet and (not so) wild in PA’s Ohiopyle

By Emily | Published: June 1, 2009
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, has a lot of water. It’s most famous attractions are Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, a weekend get-away/mansion perched on top of a creek, and the rapids of the Youghiogheny (pronounced – “yock-i-gay-nee”) River (below). We skipped the rapids. The class V whitewater rafting trip that our friends signed up for cost $140 each, [...]
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Frustrated with PA’s baffling beer laws

By Emily | Published: May 30, 2009
I just returned from a weekend in Pennsylvania. More memorable than the rolling mountains, green forests or gushing rivers were the state’s convoluted liquor laws. Before this trip, I assumed that a state famous for its craft brew (home to both the Troegs and Victory breweries) would have a plentiful selection of beer — and [...]
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Gravity Hill

By Emily | Published: May 12, 2009
Rural Pennsylvania does not have much going for it. That’s probably why someone from Bedford County, Pa., created an entire website devoted to the region’s top attraction: a hill. Gravity Hill is a “phenomenon,” boasts the website. An optical illusion makes cars appear to roll uphill and water flow the wrong way. But legend has [...]
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