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Laurelight.com is your source for photos and info on events and activities in and around Johnstown, PA, featuring lightscapes and landscapes from Pennsylvania's beautiful Alleghenies and Laurel Highlands..
It's all about the light...
"What a delightful prospect it must have afforded...when the morning sun first touched with its rays the summit of the Allegheny, and in its setting, flooded the heights of the Laurel Hill with a sea of gold, and bathed the whole intervening country with its soft and mellow light." - Hon. Wm. H. Koontz, 1895
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2011 Jackson Township Heritage Festival
Posted on 2011.11.25 Friday | No CommentsI'm especially fond of the Jackson Township Heritage Festival because the picturesque Veterans Park is a setting right out of Meet Me In St. Louis or Life With Father. I always feel like I've been tossed back a hundred years when I wander through the festival: friendly, enthusiastic vendors and patrons, good music, and, of course, great food. -
The Johnstown Concert Ballet at 2011 Ethnic Fest
Posted on 2011.10.15 Saturday | 1 CommentPut on you dancin' shoes and unpack your tu-tus. It was pure pleasure, and a nice change of pace, to watch the Johnstown Concert Ballet perform at Johnstown Artworks during a weekend of otherwise rocking out at the 2011 Cambria City Ethnic Festival. Grace and elegance... -
The 6th Annual Bandshell Bark
Posted on 2011.10.14 Friday | No Comments...cool canines and their well-behaved pets from around the area descended on Johnstown's Roxbury Park for the 4th annual Bandshell Bark in support of the Roxbury Bandshell Preservation Alliance... -
Thunder in the Valley 2011 Wrap-Up
Posted on 2011.08.22 Monday | No CommentsA final wrap-up from Johnstown's Thunder in the Valley 2011. A few people pics to close things out till next year. -
Hiking the Laurel Highlands Trail
Posted on 2011.07.23 Saturday | No Commentstime to tackle the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail. A nice thing about wandering around Johnstown and PA's Southern Alleghenies is that, no matter how alone you think you are, no matter how far out in the wilds you may be -
Johnstown Community Event 2011
Posted on 2011.07.06 Wednesday | No CommentsOn the last Monday in May, I found myself scrambling down the verticle slope of Johnstown PA's Yoder Hill, below Grandview Cemetery, to photograph the US Army Silver Wings Command Exhibition Parachute Demonstration Team out of Fort Benning, Georgia. What a pleasure it was to photograph these crack paratroopers from above as they floated down to the grassy surface of Sandyvale Cemetery. -
Johnstown PA’s Roxbury Park and Bandshell
Posted on 2011.06.18 Saturday | No CommentsFrom the day that Johnstown PA's Roxbury Bandsehll was saved, a recreational domino effect has rippled along the Stonycreek and Conemaugh Valleys and up over the surrounding Laurel and Allegheny ridges. -
Grandma’s Garden
Posted on 2011.06.07 Tuesday | No CommentsWell, it turns out the family's lived in Moxham for nigh on a hundred years now, and in this particular house for almost 80, so that should qualify the garden for a Johnstown story. -
The Cash Review at VOMA
Posted on 2011.04.19 Tuesday | No CommentsI've been following the Cash Review ever since, and when they played Johnstown PA's VOMA earlier this month, I was there, in the balcony once again, camera in hand, eager to share the experience with you through photos and video. -
A Winter’s Day, Johnstown PA, 02.07.2010
Posted on 2011.04.19 Tuesday | 1 CommentDrove the length of the city and then some last February on a snow squall day and grabbed some photos up and down the valley. Johnstown PA shore can be purty at times.
