GREAT OUTDOORS: Looking for adventures this fall and winter in the region?
The Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau announced recently that the 2017-18 fall and winter GO Magazine is now available.
The bureau represents Cameron, Clarion, Elk, Forest and Jefferson counties.
This issue features information on viewing elk and the autumn leaves, regional wine and beer, Groundhog Day and more.
Request a copy be mailed to you by filling out the form at http://www.visitpago.com/freeinformation/ or view the magazine online at http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=433176#{“issue_id”:433176,”page”:0}
TODAY: Sept. 6 was a busy day in history.
According to the Associated Press, on September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gawsh) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died eight days later; Czolgosz was executed on October 29.)
Also on this date:
• In 1916, the first self-serve grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders.
• In 1939, the Union of South Africa declared war on Germany.
• In 1943, 79 people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.
• In 1954, groundbreaking took place for the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in western Pennsylvania.
• In 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three U.S.-bound jetliners. (Two were later blown up on the ground in Jordan, along with a London-bound plane hijacked on Sept. 9; the fourth plane was destroyed on the ground in Egypt. No hostages were harmed.)
• In 1997, a public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a car crash in Paris.
• In 2002, meeting outside Washington, D.C. for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of September 11.
