It's long been my policy on this blog only to post photos and thoughts about places in Pennsylvania. For that reason, this is a nondescript photo of the Allegheny National Forest. Why write about Pennsylvania? I guess because no one else seems to be doing it. This is a historic, beautiful, and unique place that doesn't get the attention that it deserves. That said, it's funny how, as soon as you cross the border to the north or to the south, things get immediately MORE beautiful and unique (if not more historic). For example, the Chautauqua Institution is just across the line in New York...and somehow it could not exist on the southern side of that line. And Cooper's Rock is just across the Mason Dixon Line to the south, in West Virginia, and you'd be hard pressed to find such a cliff in the state to the north. I've often said that Pennsylvania's only job is to make sure New York and West Virginia don't have to touch each other. We've got elements of both things here: refined East Coast and wild Appalachia. But not enough of either. However, I've been exploring the question of whether West Virginia really is a Southern state, and I've gotten two very good days off in that place! Click HERE and HERE.
Apparently convention states that the red areas are the South. The pink areas are the Near South.
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