A state grant program is helping the Warren County Historical Society uncover treasures it didn’t know it had. Most recently, that’s taken the form of a digitization effort of the society’s Photo Album Collection. “We have recently received a grant through the Pennsylvania ...

The court clerk that took a statement in 1818 from James Magee can be forgiven for not recognizing the full contributions of the man he was speaking to. Magee was 86 at the time and described as an “insolvent debtor” as he gave a sworn statement to Alexander McCalmont, prothonotary for ...

Warren County has always had a lot more to offer than meets the eye. When passing through, whether it be on Route 6, 62, or a locally-known dirt road, the result on the surface is generally the same — wildlife, forest, and glimpses of what once was. Warren Area High School graduate Kevin ...

From 1825 until 1835, John Brown was a resident of northwestern Pennsylvania. Crawford County marked one in a series of ultimately unsuccessful ventures that turned Brown into a frequent traveler. It’s clear though that one thing that did remain with him regardless of where he went ...

If there’s anything I’ve learned as a result of writing these stories for the last, now, several years, it’s that you never know what’s going to come next. In a literal sense, sure, I don’t know what will grace this page in a month or two but that’s not what I mean. Let me ...

You could say author and bird photographer Marc Parnell travels light. And he prefers it that way. “I am a minimalist when it comes to gear, only taking a Panasonic FZ80 (a bridge camera with 60x optical zoom) with a separate telephoto lens. This camera has acceptable image ...