When people ask which town along the Great Allegheny Passage surprised me the most, I usually pause before answering. Because the answer sounds too simple. Sand Patch. For most of my life, Sand…

Before dawn, the Monongahela was still doing what it had always done, sliding past the mills, carrying fog and reflection, indifferent to ownership. But on the morning of July 6, 1892, the river…

There was a time in Somerset County when the arrival of the mail meant more than birthday cards and seed catalogs. In the early years of the last century, the mail carrier was…