We hope as you enjoy your weekend you’ll also find some time to kick back and survey some of the best writing from around the web. This week we’re bringing you stories on local spots you may consider day tripping to now that the weather has changed for the best. Enjoy.

• “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Most Beautiful Work“, by Eric Jaffe, from the Smithsonian Magazine.
  • Eric Jaffe revisits Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kauffman House in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Known popularly as “Falling Water”, the house atop the waterfall attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year and cemented Wright’s reputation as America’s most inventive and original architect.

• “Updike Memorial Placed in Plowville By Family, Friends“, by Bruce R. Posten, from The Reading Eagle.
  • Just outside of Reading, PA is the small Robeson Evangelical Lutheran Church. It was there that in 2011 the children and grandchildren of  John Updike gathered in church’s cemetery to dedicate a small memorial to the Pulitzer Prize Winner. John Updike, a native of Berks County, was born in Reading in 1932 and wrote many books including the Rabbit Series.  He died in Massachusettes in 2009.

• “Gettysburg: From Battlefield to Civil War Shrine“, by Mark Jenkins, from National Geographic News.
  • “This place called Gettysburg shall surely live in Hell for all of eternity.” Mark Jenkins takes us on a journey from the vision of war that inspired a soldier to pen those words to today’s Gettsyburg–one of America’s most popular national parks.

As always, please feel free to comment with responses to the Covered Bridge stories or suggestions of your own.

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