Friday, December 26, 2008

21 December 2008 - Harrisburg, Penn State

This week I had to go to Harrisburg and State College (Penn State) for some meetings with other professors. This is at Harrisburg Area Community College, right near downtown and the State Capital.Here is a mural at the college.While in Harrisburg, I went for a five mile run along the Susquehanna River. There is an excellent trail that even includes a bridge to an island in the river. This picture shows part of the river trail, looking back toward the state capitol rotunda.
This is another part of the river trail, looking across the Susquehanna River.Not all of Harrisburg is so nice. Actually, a lot of downtown is pretty run down. This building has a very nice mural painted on it at street level, but if you look up, you see it is boarded up. Many buildings in the city look like this.
I did take a couple of pictures at Penn State, but they weren't very interesting, so I'm not including them. Once I got home on Wednesday evening, we were very busy getting everything ready to leave for Hawaii. The next update should have some good pics from our family reunion on Kauai.

Matt