14°F and snow is blowing in today so how about some doors from our Pennsylvania trip last month.
We spent a morning at The Berks County Heritage Center historical site in Reading. It honors an era in our history when we built wagons, ground wheat, and used a covered bridge and a chair lift to cross flowing water.
I loved the doors and the garden, but must admit that chair lift fascinated me. There wasn’t a chair there, probably for safety reasons, but the idea of climbing up to the small platform, sitting in a chair, and riding the wire across to the other side certainly did bring a smile.
We had a very interesting morning because in addition to honoring the past they also have a Bicentennial Eagle Memorial, Police and Veteran’s Memorial, a Doctor’s Grove, and a cemetery. With one stop in the beautiful Pennsylvania landscape, you can explore a variety of topics.
If you’re in the path of this storm or heading out this weekend for the holiday, stay safe.
Linked to Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors, November 15, 2018
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Hang on to your hats with the weather! We just missed St. Louis’s mess. Thankful! Great old covered bridge. Love those 🙂
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Glad you missed it – wahoo. That bridge was handsome. 🙂
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The snow is headed for us tonight. We have season’s tickets to a local theatre group and for the past year it’s been remarkable that EVERY evening – like tonight – we’ve had either rain or snow on theatre night. Our record is still intact 😉
This place is beautifully kept. I love the stonework on the farm house.
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Here’s hoping you get lucky tonight, but it looks like history may win out. That stonework was really amazing. 🙂
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Sadly, we didn’t dodge it. Sticky wet snow covering everything … and it’s back-breaking to shovel!
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Funny because I’m sitting on an ice pack right now. The shoveling was bad enough, but I had to chip the ice today. At least, it is clear for a while. Hope yours stays clear too.
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These are beautiful doors, Judy. They are so Pennsylvania. I love the red barn, the yellow barn and that worn little access door. It looks like you had a great trip.
I hope the weather ends up being better than the forecast.
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The pellet stove is roaring, the vehicles are full of gas, the shovels are at the ready, the John Deere is sitting behind the barn door. Just waiting. 🙂
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I think the machines like this time of year. Unfortunately, I was in New York when this started. Long trip home – trains were having problems.
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A chair lift?! You had to be stout of hear to live in the olden days. 😉 Beautiful doors. Winter is coming.
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It was a hoot. You climbed a couple of steps, stood on that little square platform, sat on the chair, and off you went on that single wire across to the little red house on the other side of the river. I would have loved to have tried that in my younger days. 🙂
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Sounds a little hair raising to me, but then bravery isn’t my strong suit. 😉
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P.S. Should have been “heart” not “hear.”
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But, then you go places with a keyboard the rest of us wouldn’t try. 🙂
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A-w-w-w, thank you!
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Berks County – a “berk” is Cockney rhyming slang, not very complimentary, I’m afraid.
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It’s always interesting how different areas interpret and use words. 🙂
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Wonderful doors – but the chair lift, that’s cool. 🙂
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Yes, and I could see you trying that. 🙂
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In a heartbeat!
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Love the grey stonework in that house, it’s gorgeous, Judy. Your storm must have arrived in Ireland blustery and wet here the past couple of days.
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Hope your warm and snug in that new home of yours. 🙂
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We are, Judy, thanks to our stove. 🙂
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Beautiful photos of doors. I’ve often thought about visiting Berks County and your post makes me think I need to get to it!
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It is beautiful landscape, we ate at some great restaurants, and really enjoyed the visit. 🙂
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Love the doors, barns, stonework and the thought of that chairlift. Notice, I said “thought”! Lol. Hope you’re warm and hunkered down for the storm. I’m really not ready for this yet!!
🔹 Ginger 🔹
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In our younger days, I think that chair lift would have been a hoot. I remember when I was pretty young, there was a very narrow suspension bridge over a river up north near my grandparents’ farm. I LOVED walking on that bridge as it swayed. 🙂 I’m hunkered down, and the pellet stove is roaring away. 🙂
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My art teacher brain sees a vivid and wonderful collection of textures in your collage!
So now a chair lift across a raging river? I’ve always said NH has it all! (Well, except year round shirt sleeve weather, magnolia blossoms, tropical storms……!!)
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Thank you for the chuckle. 🙂
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Sounds like a fun trip! Thanks for sharing!
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🙂
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I love the architecture and history from this region of our country. I can’t believe your weather is getting so cold so quickly. Bundle up.
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I wish I could go to the front door and get a good warm breeze like you can. Not so much – snow is going to start this evening. 🙂
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Some lovely doors in this collection – an outhouse is always welcome just for the rustic old-style feel. Looking at these pics and knowing we’ve got another 4-6″ of the white stuff on the way makes me miss that green scenery soooooo much 🙂
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I do so prefer green over white. 🙂
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Seeing those traditional stone homes and out buildings in Pennsylvania is like being in the English Cotswolds. I love that old stone architecture.
Stay safe and warm with this front moving in tonight!
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You do the same. I think winter is here. ❄️
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Oh Judy 14 degrees?? Am a wimp and so I’m glad you are showing it to us, sitting in a warm house! You’re a trooper! Love the peacock statue, and the covered bridge (I guess too old for cars?)
The red house and the brick one with the white window shutters are my favorite in your finds!
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It is cold here right now, but I probably shouldn’t complain because before winter is over it will be colder. 🙂 They had the bridge entrance blocked off, so this one was only for show and walking.
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It’s good to preserve old buildings and structures! It’s our link to the past.
Do you realize that the plant with the huge flower I showed is a cactus? The Society has a show every year around May of hobby growers, and they give prizes too.
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Phew, it sounds like a perfect day for staying indoors and reminiscing with a few holiday photos. Stay warm and cosy over there!
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PA has such a rich colonial heritage and some really great doors. 🙂
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I love the buildings in this part of the world…. especially the grist mill & red bridge. I’m not sure about a chair lift across a raging river but you had to be tough to survive in those days..
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Especially when you think about all the layers of clothes they wore back then. If you went in that river, it would be a real challenge getting back out with all that material dragging you down. 🙂
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Terrible to think of it.
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After yesterday’s coating of ice, I find the green in your photos completely wonderful. Ah, to be warm without 25 pounds of clothing on! You are getting hit hard, though — at least our ice has melted. I love the comfortable, hard-working look of all these buildings and have absolutely no desire to ride over water in a chair. Yikes. Thanks for the warmth!
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Yesterday when I looked outside, it was green. Today, it is white, and a fair amount of it. 🙂
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I send sympathy. If I lived closer, I would bring liniment.
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I lived in central PA for a long time but wasn’t aware of this historic site–I would’ve loved to go there! Nice to see autumn photos on this very snowy morning . . .
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I like them all, but the sculpture is what captures my attention today…that and your mention of a pellet stove in the comments. We had to leave our wood-burning stove behind when we moved from Cleveland and I miss it. Our rental has a fireplace, but we don’t even use it. Fireplaces tend to lose more heat than they give and here it’s harder to find free wood the way I did in Cleveland.
janet
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We haven’t had a ‘fireplace’ in a while, but when we did it was almost like having a window open on a really cold day. The only down size with a pellet stove is that it requires electricity. No power = no pellet stove. 🙂
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Our stove had a blower which didn’t work when the electricity was off, but the stove still put out heat.
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That stone house with white trim and shutters is gorgeous. The garden is lovely, and so well manicured.
Stay safe and warm!
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A chair lift? How did that work?
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It looked like a small chair hung from the wire, you climbed on and gravity took you to the other side. 🙂
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Looks like an enviable outing! I love covered bridges, and I love the smokehouse photo. That one really speaks to me.
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