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Part I By Zachariah Hamer-Lang After moving to State College in 2019, I began my senior year of high school during the fall of 2021. I left the entirely online boarding school that I had been attending during the COVID-19 … Continued

By Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT)*** ***: So far, all of the authors for the Hearts in the Highlands articles you have read are real people. This time we are trying something new. Josh Portney, one of the editors of the Hearts … Continued

By Rebecca E. Rogers Jacqueline Rogers (maiden name Ragner) arrived in State College with Thomas Hunton Rogers in 1961 when the University hired my father to teach fiction writing in the English department. A Frenchwoman born in Gascony in 1924, … Continued

By Adrienne Ott On Monday, October 7, 2024, the State College Borough Council approved a $1.5 million construction loan for the State College Borough Redevelopment Authority’s adaptive reuse project of a former fraternity building in the Highlands neighborhood. Located at … Continued

By Star Campbell When you are out in the neighborhood, check out the new little library at 617 East Hamilton Avenue, in front of the First Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science) church. The little library was designed and built … Continued

By Peg Hambrick Hearts in the Highlands is ending the year with a look backward.  Because the Highlands neighborhood experienced a residential building “heyday” coinciding with the development of Penn State, many “centenarians-plus” reside in the Highlands.  Not humans, but … Continued

By Shane McGinness The Highlands is one of the several neighborhoods in the municipality of State College. It is also a very large neighborhood. How large? There are approximately 60 named streets, alleys, roads, and avenues in the Highlands. That’s … Continued

By Anastasiia Popova Sergei Vasil’evich Utechin, a historian of Russian history at Penn State, resided in Highlands from 1971 to 1976, and that was probably the quietest part of his life. He was born in 1921 in the USSR, underwent … Continued

By Ann Pangborn As an artist living in The Highlands neighborhood for almost forty years, I find inspiration everywhere, every single day.  I am primarily a fiber artist, using wool and silk and other fibers and fabrics to make felt fabric … Continued

By Katherine Joyce Stuart H. Frost was a quintessentially Pennsylvanian muralist who left quiet traces of his genius behind him. He traveled the world, spreading his art to places as magnificent as Washington, D.C.’s Capitol rotunda, and spent many years … Continued