Adventure!

The grim casemates, a network of dark passageways and chambers honeycombing the fort's walls are haunted, Eric explained. "They have been described by paranormal investigators as "being full of ghosts."

... the tracks across the Alleghenies became an important factor in the growing commerce of the nation and in national defense. Not well known is the fact that in 1942 Nazi saboteurs planned to blow up the Horseshoe Curve to interfere with the movement of troops and supplies. However, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation caught them before they could put their plan into effect.

At a signal by J.R., we all let go and went into freefall. There was no gut-wrenching sensation of falling as I had anticipated. It was quiet, and what I experienced was more of a birdlike, floating feeling. We dropped about 8,000 feet. The view was spectacular as we headed for earth. Chambersburg was below us, centered among greening farmlands, with forested mountains about our periphery.

Some of the valleys in the Laurel Highlands are wide, with neat little farms lining the valley floors. Other valleys are small and narrow with few farms, their villages almost merging into the very sides of the mountains that surround them. It is one of the most scenic places I visited, and it made me think "Switzerland."

However, in my opinion, the most impressive feature of the Pennsylvania Military Museum is the arc of stone memorials dominating a small, semicircular hillside next to the museum. The markers commemorate various Pennsylvania military units and individuals, and the battles in which they fought. The memorial arc is a fitting tribute to the thousands of Pennsylvanians who have made the supreme sacrifice for our nation.

Karen Yoder, owner of the hotel for 13 years, is a pleasant, likeable person from Bedford County. When I asked a