The amazing thing about history is that not only does it give us the opportunity to explore people, places, and past events; but it also teaches us important lessons. The purpose of Third Stop on the Right is to explore some of these lessons; searching out forgotten history and local legends.
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Blairsville and it’s Abandoned High Schools
I’m always fascinated by abandoned schools. There is a certain feeling of sadness when I come across them — buildings once filled with so much life, suddenly eerily quiet. I was on my way home from picking up some uranium glass when I drove through Blairsville and discovered not one, but two, abandoned schools, both…
Oh hi there! I’m Rachel!
I’m so glad you found my little space here on the web.
I am passionate about so many things, but I am particularly interested in history and travel.
Family is so important to me so I try to include my two boys in as many of my adventures as I can. I feel that the things and places they actually experience are way more powerful than just reading about it in a book.
I have always had a passion for history — as long as I can remember. I finally turned this passion into action when I published my first postcard history book in 2007. It was followed up a year later by my second book, and then again by third which was published in 2020. (Spoiler alert: the third one was my favorite!)
Gettysburg’s Shriver House Museum Tells the Civilian Experience
We’ve all read about the horrors of the Civil War but it is often easy to forget the toll these battles took on the local citizens. Once the troops moved on, it didn’t mean that it was over for the townspeople. Instead, the armies left their injured and dead men and horses behind, along with…
Six Things to Ride at Lake Erie’s Waldameer Park
Located along the banks of Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie is one of only thirteen trolley parks left in the United States. Meaning “woods by the sea” in German, Waldameer Park is the fourth oldest park in Pennsylvania and the tenth oldest park in the nation. When you head to any amusement park, one of…
The Blue Streak: Farewell to a Historic Roller Coaster
I’ve been trying to figure out how to write this post for the past two weeks. It’s never easy to say goodbye, even if you know the goodbye may be imminent. Those of us here in Pittsburgh know about these sorts of goodbyes all too well when we had to experience it with the closure…