<p><span class="deck">Among the Pennsylvania Dutch, both plain and fancy, the milk is yet, the <span class="typestyle"> schnitz-un-gnepp</span> delights the soul, and the soup is thick enough to stand on </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “I do not admit that a woman can draw like that,” said Degas when he saw one of her pictures</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Refugees from the French Revolution, many of them of noble birth, built a unique community in the backwoods of Pennsylvania—and hoped their queen would join them</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Gargantuan, gross, and cynical, the patrician boss Boies Penrose descended from aristocracy to dominate Pennsylvania Republican politics for thirty years</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> From Germany and Switzerland, farmer-potters transplanted their skills to Pennsylvania and produced a distinctive ceramic found nowhere else in America</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A recently discovered collection of glass-plate negatives offers a remarkable look at our grandparents</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">When Pierre S. du Pont bought the deteriorated Longwood Gardens in 1906, he thought that owning property was a sign of mental derangement. Still, he worked hard to create a stupendous fantasy garden, a place, he said, “where I can entertain my friends.”</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">50 years ago, the builders of the Pennsylvania Turnpike completed America’s first superhighway and helped determine the shape of travel to come.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Ninety years ago, a high-born zealot named Gifford Pinchot knew more about woodlands than any man in America. What he <span class="typestyle"> did</span> about them changed the country we live in and helped define environmentalism. </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The Colonial Revival was born in a time of late-19th-century ferment, and, from then on, the style resurfaced every time Americans needed reassurance.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A canoe trip along a river not far from industrial America reveals that the footprints of human history have been all but covered over by what looks like a primeval paradise.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In a nation of inventors, it has always been the single most invented thing. At this very moment, hundreds of Americans are busy obeying Emerson’s famous dictum, even though the machine he exhorted them to build has existed in near-transcendental perfection for almost a century.</span></p>
