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Add Fallingwater® to Your Life List...Include a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater® as suggested by The Smithsonian Magazine's Life List. Listed as one of 28 places you should visit...before it's too late. The Smithsonian suggested Fallingwater along with the Taj Mahal as feats of engineering and history's finest works of art and design.
What's New at Fallingwater® for 2008...For its 45th season, Fallingwater® will open Mondays and close Wednesdays to accommodate travelers who are taking three-day weekend getaways. A traveling exhibition, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright through the Eyes of a Child will be featured at The Barn at Fallingwater March1-May 18. Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday will be celebrated at Fallingwater June 8, 2008 with Author Nancy Horan, who will be on hand for a book signing of her book Loving Frank based on Wright's infamous love affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney.
Make a Wright Turn...Discover other Wright masterpieces in 2008. Located just six miles from Fallingwater® is Kentuck Knob. Perched on a knob with a spectacular view of the Youghiogheny River Gorge, Kentuck is considered to offer one of Wright's most striking integrations of a home and its landscape. A third Wright-designed home, The Duncan House is now open as a guest house. This house is one of only four in the country where guests may actually spend the night and experience the Wright lifestyle.
French & Indian War 250...Fort Ligonier commemorates its 250th Anniversary (1758-2008) of the French & Indian War with special events throughout the season. The American Eagle Outfitters Tour of PA - an elite international cycling event that follows the Forbes Trail from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh will hold one of its staging areas and depart from Fort Ligonier Day 5 of the race - Saturday, June 28, 2008. August 16-17, the National Encampment of the Brigade of the American Revolution will be held at Fort Ligonier. October 10-12 is the annual Fort Ligonier Days. Hear the roar of the cannons and thunder of musketry at battle demonstrations at 2:00 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Visit the British and French military encampments, and journey back in time to an eighteenth century fort community.
The Ride of Your Life...Plan an amazing biking excursion like none other on a trail system that connects two great American cities - Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. Together, The Great Allegheny Passage and the C&O Canal Towpath follow over 300 miles along winding rivers, through dense forests with panoramic vistas, all on a nearly level trail. Over 100 miles of this stunning rail-trail cut through the heart of the Laurel Highlands dotted with interesting trail towns offering comfortable bed and breakfasts, eateries, bike shops and other fun places to visit while you give your legs a rest.
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort...Take a 29 year-old chef who is self-taught and pair him with a 29 year-old restaurant manager, and what do you get? A Five Diamond rating for Lautrec - Nemacolin Woodlands Resort's fine dining restaurant - the only new AAA Five Diamond-rated restaurant in the entire eastern half of the United States. The resort's Falling Rock Boutique Hotel again received the Five Diamond award as well. Designed on the architectural principles and style of Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Rock is one of only 100 hotels across the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean to achieve the prestigious status.
Laurel Highlands Forefront of EcoTourism... Powdermill Nature Reserve, a Field Station for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History recently expanded the nature reserve with an impressive visitors center that features additional exhibitions and class room space for its free nature series. The opening of the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe honors Mrs. Palmers' (late wife of legendary golfer Arnold Palmer) dream to preserve a 50-acre sanctuary adjacent to Saint Vincent College. The new nature center offers a nature series
from a restored 19th-century barn and will use the grounds to study wetlands preservation, soil conservation and wildlife preservation.
Family Fun at its Best...Idlewild & SoakZone - voted #2 Best Kid's Park in the World for the fourth year in a row! New for 2008 is BIGFOOT'S MUDSLIDE! Seven Springs Mountain Resort - Pennsylvania's largest ski and four-season resort again voted #1 Resort in the mid-Atlantic by Ski magazine. Hidden Valley Four Seasons Resort under new ownership with millions of dollars being invested to upgrade resort and activities. Some of the east coast's most exciting white water rafting can be found on the Youghiogheny River in Ohiopyle State Park as well as a trail head for the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail - a challenging 70-mile hiking and backpacking trail ranked as one of the country's most challenging and scenic.
Follow the Antique Trail... Discover dozens of great antique shops, co-ops and emporiums situated in the region's quaint towns, along historic routes and scenic byways. Antique enthusiasts plan yearly junkets to the Laurel Highlands around outstanding quality shows, if you plan it right, you may even hit two shows in the same weekend.
Contact: Julie Donovan
Public Relations Manager
724-238-5661 x 109
jdonovan@laurelhighlands.org
http://www.laurelhighlands.org/
