Nate’s Valley Freeze

Valley Freeze ice cream shop with BBQ.

A “Drive-In” Review “It’s summer,” I reminded myself, “so why are we eating inside when we could be eating outside at so many local drive-ins?”         Rather than attend a restaurant I could visit anytime in any weather, my friend and I, while driving south of Albion, decided to stop at Nate’s Valley Freeze.        …

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Bye, Bye, Birdies?

Red hummingbird feeder hanging in a tree.

Hummingbird, don’t fly away, fly away! (“Hummingbird” Seals & Crofts song) I’m going to be late!         Six a.m. comes way too early—and nothing to look forward to except a long ten-hour day doing monkey work at a local side gig.         Nonetheless, as I begin to fill the bird feeders before I leave home…

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“Jersey” Comes to Meadville

Jersey Boys poster, July 12th - August 4th.

Jersey Boys at  The Academy Theatre Most musical’s songs are created to express and move along action within a show. However, “Jersey Boys” presents something unique: The songs in this 2004 “jukebox musical” were originally performed by The Four Seasons during the 1960’s—and assists in telling their story today. Currently at Meadville’s Academy Theatre, “Jersey…

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 Allegheny Reunion Art Exhibition at Hatch Hollow

Framed illustration of a castle by the sea.

Oftentimes colleges graduates have reunions to talk over the good times. It’s not so often that grads “reunite” on art gallery walls. However several Allegheny College grads, faculty and staff from different decades currently offer their artistic visions at Hatch Hollow, a Meadville art gallery, art supply retail store and “coworking space.” “Within these walls,…

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