National Good Neighbor Day fell on September 28 this week. But as all too many of us know, not all neighbors are good neighbors. Many people never see their rake or screw driver again once they let someone borrow it. These are the tool-borrowing habits that end Bay Stater friendships. Note: This is general information,…
Georgia’s and South Carolina’s state park systems can’t agree on the name of a lake they share. That’s just one example of when these two states aren’t willing to budge. These are the arguments Georgia and South Carolina have never settled. 1. Whose Barbecue Sauce Wins South Carolina treats barbecue sauce as a birthright worth…
Pennsylvania’s attorney general has warned residents about a fake PayPal invoice built to look official enough to fool an online seller. To help combat online consumer fraud, police departments across the state keep marked, camera-covered lots open for buyer-and-seller handoffs. These are the safety rules Pennsylvanians should follow when selling items online. Note: This is…
About 1,600 more Rhode Islanders packed up for another state than moved in from one last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest population count. Only overseas arrivals kept the state’s population from shrinking. These are the reasons Rhode Islanders are leaving the state they grew up in. Note: This is general information, not…
A driver crossing Nevada on U.S. Route 50, the highway Life magazine nicknamed “the loneliest road in America” back in 1986, passes a boarded gas station and a hand-painted population sign nobody has repainted in years. Many Nevadans live nowhere near it. More than 88% of Nevada’s 3.35 million residents live in just two counties,…
Boston set aside fifty acres of land for its residents in 1634, and the National Park Service still calls it the country’s oldest public park. Nearly four centuries later, towns across Massachusetts are still arguing about what shared ground like it is for. These are the Massachusetts town commons nobody can agree how to use….
Traffic through New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch ran 30% higher last September and October than the year before, according to the White Mountains Attractions Association. Towns across the state don’t wait for that kind of surge to start preparing. These are the things New Hampshire towns do before the foliage crowds arrive. 1. Sandwich’s Early Build-Out…
A Connecticut driver rolls up to a toll plaza on I-287 in New York and starts patting down their console for cash. Nobody behind them is patient. There’s a reason for the scramble: Connecticuthistory.org, a Connecticut Humanities project, records the state’s last highway toll coming down off the Charter Oak Bridge back in 1989. Toll…
Stock trailers start lining up outside Billings in early October for the Northern International Livestock Exposition (NILE). It runs October 9 through 17 this year. Back home, Montana ranchers still have a full list of chores lined up to do before winter. These are the Montana ranch chores that fill October. Note: This is general…
Texas built as many as 1,000 dance halls between the mid-1800s and mid-1900s. A 2017 National Trust for Historic Preservation count found fewer than 400 still standing. Locals treat the survivors as common knowledge. But that’s not always the case. These are the Texas dance halls Texans assume everyone knows about. 1. Twin Sisters Dance…
