Round the Square

MOON: Want to go to the moon? Now is your chance — sort of. NASA is inviting folks to send their names to the surface of the moon aboard the agency’s ...

CONTEST: Feeling like snapping some photos? The Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau announced its lineup of photo contests for 2024. The four ...

YEAR: Looking for our end-of-year coverage? We’re still bringing it to you, but it will be in on Friday. We’re finishing up now and will print the lis...

BRADFORD : It’s a new year, and we thought it would be a good time to revisit a description of Bradford from a 1906 book about the development of the ...

NEW: It’s nearly time to ring in the New Year, and studies show more than one in three Americans plan to celebrate with some alcohol. In addition to r...

HISTORY: February 1924. The month probably doesn’t stand out in the minds of many. However, as we were looking back through some old copies of The Era...

WILLS: Did you know less than half of rural adults have written wills? The Center for Rural Pennsylvania reported that only 46% of rural adults have a...

TWIXMAS: We didn’t know it had a name, but at least according to House Beautiful, the week between Christmas and New Year’s is called Twixmas. For man...

ANIMALS: Does it seem like time spent with animals is more relaxing? Meditation and breathwork experts at Art of Living conducted research to identify...

DECORATIONS: Now that all the shopping is finished and the presents neatly wra — OK, just pretend that’s all done. Then take a ride to see what there ...

FACTS: Did you know that Christmas celebrations in the Middle Ages were rowdy and raucous, sort of like Mardi Gras? We checked history.com for some fa...

CHRISTMAS SONGS: Considering Christmas music is blasting in some stores before Halloween, it could feel as if each song gets played about a million ti...

MORE POPCORN: We’re sharing another popcorn recipe today because it’s a new one to us, and we thought it looked neat. It’s for festive popcorn trees. ...

SPECIAL GIFT: We received a special request from Carol this week to re-run this ‘Round the Square: ”’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through...

RECIPE: Our friends at The Popcorn Board, with an easy to remember website popcorn.org , share recipes for festive treats that are fun for holidays an...

LAST: The last of our 1903 story of the new Bell Telephone system in Bradford. “There is a huge storage battery that furnished the power to run the wh...

PHONES: More of the 1903 story about Bell Telephone’s new system in Bradford, today about troubleshooting and operation. “Another feature of the new s...

HOW IT WORKS: We continue the story from 1903 about a revolutionary new telephone system in Bradford. “By the new system just installed all the subscr...

TECH 2: “Automatic telephone exchanges have been invented by the score, but they are likely to be used in practice on a large scale at about the same ...

NEW TECH: It was state-of-the-art in 1903, a telephone system so new and amazing it was hard to imagine it would ever get any better. The Era’s covera...