Erie
The longer reads: Erie with kids, where to eat, what moving here is like, and how the town got this way. Each says where its facts came from.
Erie has more playgrounds than any town in this network and a library with a program most days…Erie has more playgrounds than any town in this network and a library with a program most days. Where to go with children, by age and by weather.
Four places for breakfast or brunch in Erie, from the Creole cafe with the famous weekend line to the drive-through that…Four places for breakfast or brunch in Erie, from the Creole cafe with the famous weekend line to the drive-through that opens at six.
Erie is in two counties, and the boundary decides more than an address: the school district, the library card…Erie is in two counties, and the boundary decides more than an address: the school district, the library card, the ballot, the assessor — and, since the town took over half of them…
A homestead named for a Pennsylvania hometown, a railroad spur, eighty years of underground coal…A homestead named for a Pennsylvania hometown, a railroad spur, eighty years of underground coal, a schoolhouse that became Town Hall, and a farm town that grew by two-thirds in a decade…