Travels With The Post on Thursday (May 30) visited the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord NH. Among its timely exhibits was a demonstration of how tornadoes form, and re-form. Storm destruction currently is a hot topic in the news. The exhibit seemed to fascinate the museum's young visitors.
Several school groups were in attendance during the morning. The center is named for pioneering astronauts Christa McAuliffe and Alan Shepard, both of whom have New Hampshire ties.
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Traveling through the Catskills on a Sunday (Oct. 1), with leaves just turning in color
8:45 p.m., the night is drawing to a close. Our return bus to Pennsburg leaves shortly. Facebook Insights reports more than 1,700 readers followed along today on all or parts of this journey. Your managing editor offers his sincere thanks. We'll do it again as opportunities arise!
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Another member of the Flores Family troupe climbs the sway pole balances atop it, performs upside down, then snaps the pole and makes a 360° arc. The crowd screams in the light!
If all of this reminds you of a circus, that's exactly what it is. This entertainment precedes the big event, which is the balloon launch at 6:30 p.m.
521 p.m., a few balloons are beginning to fill on the field in Reddington. If you ever wanted to see inside an inflating balloon, this was your chance. They were charging $2 a head. Notice there's a significant line.
514 p.m. The Flores Family is providing entertainment under a big top, near where the balloons are starting to inflate.
We've arrived at the balloon festival in Readington Township NJ. It's packed with people.
3:20 pm. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a highway filled lately with construction activity. Those of you who drive US Route 422 daily may be coping with the turnpike widening in King of Prussia. Another example from today's excursion: bridge building, happening just south of Allentown.
Hi there, fellow travelers! It's Saturday (July 29) at 2:20 pm, and your managing editor is leaving Pennsburg on a Perkiomen Tours bus bound for tonight's New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning. We'll show you some of the sights in real time.
The accompanying video hopefully is not a harbinger of things to come. The bus is on a detour route, because a portion of Route 663 north of Pennsburg is closed due to a motor vehicle accident. The bus driver announced that rescue personnel reported it involved significant damage.
This probably will surprise no one. At the Philadelphia Flower Show, there are as many people shopping in the Marketplace as there are people looking at exhibits.
At Studio Exotica, flowers and plants accompanied by disco music and neon.
There's plenty of animation in the exhibits. And you also get some idea of how large the crowd here is.
As you'd probably expect, there's greenery and blossoms everywhere you turn inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. On Friday at 10:47 a.m., it's not yet packed with people. It will be later!
Happy Friday! The Post is bringing you to the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Of course, we're only at the start of this inclement weather. In northern Lower Pottsgrove Township, it's raining consistently but lightly. The bigger problem may be the wind, which has picked up considerably within the half hour.
649 a.m., there's a light rain falling in Limerick Township, at the intersection of Masters Drive and Pruss Hill Road. Township Fire Police had set up a barricade there to deal with a downed wire. It's now been moved further east on Pruss Hill.
