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by Noah Coleman The odd thing about returning to the place where one was born is the intersection of your past and current lives. Returning to State College has created new patterns upon previous layers upon previous memories. When Highlands … Continued

By Mark Lafer Congregation Brit Shalom, at 620 East Hamilton Avenue, is the center for worship, cultural engagement, and religious celebrations for more than 350 residents of the State College area. The names of early members are permanent parts of … Continued

By Megan Fleming If the walls of many State College homes could talk, they would tell you that they were hand-picked from a catalog. Companies like Gordon-Van, Aladdin and Sears Roebuck and Co. sold plans and materials for homes out … Continued

By Benjamin Rowles At 217 East Nittany Avenue, local residents in need of shelter can find a warm, supportive community to help them get back on their feet. Entering its 30th anniversary, Centre House is the only 24/7 homeless shelter in … Continued

By Gary Miller   What is a community? A few years ago, faculty at the University of North Carolina, the University of California at San Francisco, and the University of Philadelphia interviewed a wide range of people about that question.  … Continued

By Lee Stout It has frequently been said that the fraternity houses are the original mansions of State College.  In the past, fraternity fortunes rose and fell, both with the popularity of Greek life among students along with the social … Continued

by Gary Miller When my wife, Karen, and I were first married in 1972, we rented an apartment on East Hamilton Avenue in the Highlands. It was a small apartment house, with two apartments on the first floor, another two … Continued

by Louise Ulinski (as told to Anne Cornell) In April of 1955, Louise Ulinski, a 25-year-old mom with a toddler and a baby on the way, moved with her family into a new three-bedroom, one-story, brick home on the corner … Continued

by Susan Rogers My father’s yard embarrassed me. The yard of my childhood was a patchy bit of grass, in the back and in the front—we had a corner lot—and loaded with weeds. Overburdened with teaching writing at Penn State … Continued

by Nikki Crowley In the early spring of 2015, our soon-to-be family of three accepted jobs at Penn State University, and planned our move up from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We had a single whirlwind weekend to search for our … Continued