Monthly Archives: March 2015

The Erie County Historical Society will charter a bus and ferry you around to five historic taverns and clubs. Beer will be served on the bus as part of the ticket price! Grab a group of friends and call them … Continue reading →

The Presque Isle Light Station, one of Erie’s treasured historic sites, will be open to the public on a regular basis for the first time this summer. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources signed a thirty-five lease with the … Continue reading →

The iconic Don’t Give Up the Ship Battle Flag from the War of 1812, theater pioneer Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel, innovations in natural gas extraction and distribution by George Westinghouse that made the fuel commercially available, and Sullivan Progress Plaza, the … Continue reading →

Celebrate the end of winter and taste the coming of spring! It has been a very long winter and a sure sign of spring is the melting snow, mounds of mud, and the sound of sap dripping into buckets! It’s … Continue reading →

On March 4, 1681, William Penn received from Great Britain’s King Charles II a charter for land in the new world that would later become the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Penn had a vision for establishing a “land of peace, justice, … Continue reading →