John Hook
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New York State(s) of Mind
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This Dutch influence in what was once New Amsterdam also provides a connection to modern-day Happy Valley – and the rest of rural Pennsylvania.
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Raising a Pint to a New Era at Beaver Stadium
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Friday, July 7, 2017 at 7 p.m. EDT was a watershed relationship moment for me. A longtime friend and I took our bond to a new level, and I’m looking forward to seeing where this leads.
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A Technological Path to the Road Less Taken
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An interesting benefit of these technology advances is we are no longer relying on paper maps. And when we are no longer relying on paper maps, we are no longer tied to the looking-for-limited-access-highways method of navigation. Which is what in turn makes the trip more interesting.
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From a Mountain Vista, a View of the Fathers That Led Us Here
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I had a melancholy Father’s Day moment while perched on top of that Tussey Mountain ridge. How my wife and I, the parents of two wonderful young adults, had come to be here. How perfect it was that our own fathers, their fathers, and their father’s fathers had settled in the commonwealth and all
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For the Mountain
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Mount Nittany Night is an opportunity to support an all-volunteer organization’s work to protect Mount Nittany and its recent, once-in-a-generation effort to maintain the Lynch Overlook
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A Familiar Font
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I would like to request that someone exchange a font, please. Not a complete logo, mind you, just the typeface.
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Commencement from Another View
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As a family we did miss finals week and commencement mania here in Happy Valley because we attended our daughter’s graduation from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. It gave us a great opportunity to see how another major university produces this pride-swelling experience.
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Remembering Where You Are
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On Saturday night while Penn State football fans had either gone home or were celebrating around Happy Valley and enjoying Blue-White weekend, we were driving back on Interstate 80 from a youth soccer game in New Jersey, and were reminded how isolated our little chunk of paradise is here in the shad
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Lights Out
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Columnist John Hook meditates on the excitement and inconvenience of power outages, and the good fortune to have a regular supply of electricity and people who make it work.
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A Spring Cleaning for Column Ideas
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Starting spring cleaning this weekend, I dumped out the shop-vac for the first time in months and it made me think I should finally dump out the column ideas I’ve been collecting that I will never use.