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Lake Ronkonkoma is a natural freshwater lake on Long Island, located around 8 miles (or 13 kilometers) northeast of the town of Islip, New York. Most of Lake Ronkonkoma is less than 15 feet deep but it reaches depths of up to 65 feet in places. Formed by ancient glaciers and covering an area of 243 acres, Lake Ronkonkoma is Read more...

The huge boulder balanced on five smaller rocks near the town of North Salem, New York, is widely thought to have been carried to the area on moving glacial ice during the last ice age and deposited, by chance, on the supporting stones as the ice retreated. Such a geological feature is called a glacial erratic and widely observed around Read more...

Bridgeport is the most populous city in Connecticut, notable for its links to circus impresario PT Barnum, being the home of Beardsley Zoo, and as the birthplace of the Subway restaurant chain and the Frisbie Pie Company. Phileas T Barnum was elected as mayor of Bridgeport in 1875, overseeing a period of improvements in city infrastructure and services, including the Read more...

The Liberty Bell is on display in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the Liberty Bell Center just across from Independence Hall in the Independence National Historical Park. Originally placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence Hall) in 1753, the bell has traveled considerable distances in its lifetime, including trips to various exhibitions end events across the US Read more...

Logan Square in Philadelphia is named after James Logan, who served as the city’s fourteenth mayor between 1722 and 1723. Also known as Logan Circle because of the circular water feature at its center, the open-space park in Philadelphia’s northwest quadrant was planned during the laying out of the original city grid. Originally named Northwest Square. it was renamed Logan Read more...

LA Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore near Philadelphia, where he joined the varsity basketball team as a freshman, earning a total of 2,883 points between 1992 and 1996. He spent much of his childhood in Italy, where his father, former basketball player Joe Bryant, played professional basketball after retiring from the NBA, before Read more...

The Philadelphia Flyers NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at the Wells Fargo Center (formerly Wachovia Center) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Flyers moved to the newly-built arena in 1996, having previously played at the Spectrum, a nearby arena which has since been demolished. The arena is also home to the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and the Philadelphia Read more...

Ardmore Music Hall is located at 23 East Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is situated close to Ardmore station on the Philadelphia Main Line. The venue was previously known as 23 East Cabaret and later, Brownies 23 East, and over the years has hosted live performances by groups such as The Dave Matthews Band and Read more...

Cryder Beach in the Village of Southampton, New York, is open to the public, including non-residents. A season parking permit is required between May 15 and September 15, which can be obtained from Southampton Village Hall in-person or by mail. Beach parking permit fees range from no charge for village property owners and year-round renters to $500 for summer visitors. Read more...

The NPR member radio station in Southampton, NY, is WLIW-FM which broadcasts to eastern Long Island and southern Connecticut on FM and HD Radio at 88.3 MHz, and also streams online. Formerly called WPPB-FM, the station was acquired in 2020 by the WNET Group, parent company of New York’s THIRTEEN and WLIW21 public television broadcasters and operator of New Jersey’s Read more...

American television host and comedian Jimmy Fallon spent most of his childhood in Saugerties, New York, where he lived with his parents and older sister, Gloria, in a house on Overbaugh Street. Fallon’s family moved to Saugerties shortly after his birth in Brooklyn, New York, and he attended St Mary of the Snow Catholic elementary school and later, Saugerties High Read more...