Round the Square

SEPTEMBER: Each month is awareness for lots of things, and September is no different. It's the national month of potatoes, coupons, chicken, honey, It...

NO WORDS: Lost in translation. Such an interesting phrase. We've wondered how that can be, and laughed at poorly translated signs on the internet — "F...

KITTIES: We've had some stories lately explaining the needs of the volunteer organization No Feline Left Behind. We wanted to share how adopting a kit...

FACTS: Ready for some odd facts? The website today.com has a lot of them, and they are pretty neat. For example, there were active volcanoes on the mo...

STRANGE: Living in Pennsylvania, we're used to people commenting on strange town names. Estately has a list of the most unusually named towns in U.S. ...

LEGENDS: There are some people throughout history who have become legends through books, movies or various retellings of their escapades. John Henry "...

MOVIES: The New Bradford Theatre was the place to be in August of 1948. "Sights and Thrills you may never behold again!" "Things that no civilized man...

ODD NAMES: Pennsylvania has some unique town names. They might now be weird to us, but folks in other places sure think we're strange. A list on Wande...

THERAPY: Where do you go for a bit of nature therapy? We're lucky here in McKean County with so many places to choose from — Kinzua Bridge State Park,...

JUNK: Junk mail, junk email, junk phone calls — wouldn't it be nice if all the energy it takes to clutter people's lives was put into something positi...

STOP: We were compelled to write this after a recent trip through Allegany State Park. Near the benches beside Red House Lake, a deer stood grazing — ...

TOO SOON: We're sure children think this message from the American Red Cross of Greater Pennsylvania is coming along too soon: It's time for "Back to ...

BAD: Is it going to be a bad winter? Farmers' Almanac has a list of signs, first published in 1978, that still holds true today. The first is thicker ...

BEGINNING: When do schools start? Even without kids in school, it's important to know when those big yellow school buses will be on the roads. We look...

RECIPES: Farmers’ Almanac annual recipe contest of original casseroles with five ingredients or less has named its winners. First place was a Polish D...

AWARD: It's always nice to find an impressive accolade for a local person when looking through Era archives. And when it comes from heroic actions dur...

HIJINX: 'Twas such a harrowing and dangerous pastime taking place on the streets of Bradford in July 1886 that a notice was printed in The Era implori...

LIFE: You are doing better in life than you think. Making the most of life is a personal journey with no single definition. How can you determine if y...

LAST: We've all heard the phrase "famous last words." Yet how familiar are we with history's famous last words? This first one, we would guess, is qui...

BUCKET LIST: We hear the term a lot since the 2007 film — “The Bucket List.” It's a list of things to do before you, well, "kick the bucket." Hey, we ...