Pike Days!

Warm weather has brought us the festival season, with the National Road Festival kicking it off. Billed as “the world’s longest festival” it stretches the length of the original National Pike, from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois. We are not in a position to judge its popularity for its entire length, but it certainly was a major success this year in the section between Brownsville and Washington, Pennsylvania. Like so many other events that have been constrained by the pandemic for the past two summers, this festival seemed bigger and better than ever this year. I had the good fortune…