Back when shopping was an event, my old mentor John Gunter ran the legendary Penn Traffic Department Store in Johnstown. JohnĢƵ motto was simple: Go big or go home. And when it came to Christmas, he went mega-big.
That store was a winter wonderland with wreaths the size of a 1968 Chrysler ...
In the late 1990s, I somehow found myself on a plane bound for Bosnia, proof that Congressman John Murtha and Don Zucco, then the mayor of Johnstown, could talk me into anything. Our Johnstown delegation, led by Zucco, was headed to Brčko, a city still reeling from the war. As we descended ...
Air traffic controllers have been having a rough time, and that doesn’t exactly make any of us feel calmer about flying. So, I thought I’d revisit a few of the memorable flight experiences we have survived over the past.
Once, on a commuter plane from Philadelphia to Providence, R.I., I ...