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My favorite things Pennsylvania
Growing up, I regarded Pennsylvania as the most typical and most American part of the country; I loved it. I loved the mid-sized towns with old industrial and domestic architecture, I loved the museums of Philadelphia, and I loved the bridges of Pittsburgh. Of course this was before America moved South and I gave the honor of most American place to Knoxville, Tennessee.
This list didn't require much thought, and the candidates poured out right away:
1. Eugene Ormandy recording: He introduced me to so much in classic music and somehow I felt he would never let me down; I'll pick either his Beethoven 5th and 6th or his Shostakovich 10th.
2. Painting: The Gross Clinic, by Thomas Eakins. and my second choice would be the Andy Warhol car crash or electric chair paintings. Mary Cassatt, George Catlin, Andrew Wyeth, John Sloan, Stuart Davis, and Keith Haring all deserve honorary mention. And I'm sure there are others. Wow.
3. Sculptor: Alexander Calder, but only the little ones, the more delicate the better. The big ones in plazas are garish and misplaced.
4. Book on free trade: Henry George's Protection or Free Trade remains a wonderful introduction to economics.
5. Writer: John Updike, or Benjamin Franklin. John O'Hara never clicked with me, though he was my grandmother's favorite after Shakespeare. I'll pick The Coup as my favorite Updike; I don't think he's written a good novel in a while.
6. Popular music: Todd Rundgren was remarkably talented, never quite fulfilled his promise, but Something/Anything remains a wonderful double album.
7. Jazz: Art Blakey, Keith Jarrett (The Koln Concert, or his Shostakovich), Erroll Garner, Earl Hines, and George Benston was good at the very beginning. Stanley Clarke is amazing to hear live. Wow. And that's not even counting jazzmen who played long stints in Philly, such as John Coltrane and Sun Ra.
8. Rap music: Schooly D, The Adventures of Schooly D, remains one of my favorite rap albums.
9. Stepdaughter: Yana (it feels funny to list her as a thing, but in the metaphysical sense yes indeed she is), who as of today is moved in at Franklin and Marshall. Boo hoo!
Note we haven't even touched the Amish quilts, Fraktur drawings, mighty rivers, the Barnes collection, fall foliage, sports, Reading, or philanthropy. Harrisburg, however, is a blight.
The bottom line: Almost certainly, Pennsylvania is better than your state. If you are a foreigner, and want to understand what made America great, study and visit Pennsylvania.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on August 24, 2007 at 06:32 AM in The Arts | Permalink
Comments
I love Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Plus, professor Justin Wolfers is at Wharthon (U of Penn), in Philly.
And you could have mentioned the Philly's painting museum (and the Rocky Balboa thing) and the Rodin museum (nearby).
Posted by: Chris Masse at Aug 24, 2007 7:01:53 AM
Just driving through it on my way to GMU from MI was amazing! The land and architecture are beautiful.
Posted by: Dan Smith at Aug 24, 2007 7:24:17 AM
When talkin' Pennsylvania, most folks conjure up images from south of I-80: Philly, Pittsburgh, Penn State, Amish. They're missing the best part of the Keystone State. The scenery of the PA Nothern Tier rivals anything on the east coast, even the Smokies.
Posted by: michael at Aug 24, 2007 7:55:20 AM
August Wilson.
Posted by: Bill Gardner at Aug 24, 2007 7:58:13 AM
Add RGM watches to that list.
http://www.rgmwatches.com/
Posted by: Chris Meisenzahl at Aug 24, 2007 8:08:13 AM
Schooly D! (Or was it Schoolly D?) You've earned my eternal respect for that reference.
But you can't list talk about Philly hip-hop without mentioning the legendary foundation, the Roots. And DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. I wonder whatever happened to the latter.
Posted by: Jerry at Aug 24, 2007 8:20:37 AM
Reading is one of your favorite things, but Harrisburg is a blight? I assume you haven't visited in the last quarter century.
That said, Reading has fantastic Mexican and Salvadoran street food, at least until the nativists rise up and evict the only economic breath the city retains.
Posted by: Josh at Aug 24, 2007 8:21:48 AM
Band: Marah
Bar: Dirty Frank's
Coach: Joe Paterno
Medical Museum: Mutter
Basketball Game: Penn v Princeton
Beer: Yuengling
Oil Well: Titusville
Skateboarder: Ricky Oyola
My grandmother hated John O'Hara. She said his nickname was "Dirty John" because he never washed his face as a kid. She and many people in Pottsville (aka Gibbsville) never forgave him for writing about them in his books.
Posted by: Ethan at Aug 24, 2007 8:25:11 AM
Check out the Grand Canyon of the Northeast (http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/Parks/leonardharrison.aspx)
For history buffs, I'm a fan of Benjamin Rush
(http://www.benjaminrush.com/)
And why do more folks not know more about Henry George? He was on target on many topics. Yes, the "single-taxers" think their land tax will solve all the world's problems, but despite the seemingly religious following of George today, his contributions remain important.
Posted by: Mike at Aug 24, 2007 8:30:50 AM
And don't forget Drake's Well, near Oil City.
Posted by: ellis at Aug 24, 2007 8:37:53 AM
Don't forget Fallingwater.
Posted by: gmf at Aug 24, 2007 8:51:12 AM
And the robots at Carnegie Mellon :)
Posted by: cmugrad at Aug 24, 2007 8:51:38 AM
Music: What about Philadelphia Soul?
Posted by: Ted Craig at Aug 24, 2007 8:57:15 AM
Music: What about Philadelphia Soul?
Posted by: Ted Craig at Aug 24, 2007 8:57:37 AM
Music: What about Philadelphia Soul?
Posted by: Ted Craig at Aug 24, 2007 8:57:42 AM
No mention of the lehigh valley or Bucks county housing Pearl S. Buck and Oscar Hammerstein(while he wrote Oklahoma!) or any of bucks county other interesting sites? Ringing Rocks? Also is this respect from a Jersey boy?
Posted by: KevinLin at Aug 24, 2007 9:04:54 AM
Harrisburg a blight? Yeah. OK. But hey, we've got a decent symphony. And ... point taken.
Posted by: Dtech at Aug 24, 2007 9:10:18 AM
Lancaster County also has such wonderfully named small towns as "intercourse"
(you can get an "I love intercourse" shirt there), Blue Ball, and virgin
all right close to each other. In Virgin I once saw one of the most
charming things I'd ever seen- a volly-ball game at the "Virgin days" celebration between
an Amish team and a team of (I think) Ecuadorians.
Posted by: Matt at Aug 24, 2007 9:37:00 AM
On the subject of Jazz:
1) Its George Benson, not Benston. I believe George Benston is a finance professor at Emory. Although maybe he plays guitar too. Benson, however, at one time was a great jazz guitarist, but then he basically invented smooth jazz (anybody who attributes smooth jazz to Miles Davis has no clue what they are talking about).
2) Michael Brecker and Christian McBride should be on your list. Two of the most influential jazz musicians in the last 20-30 years. Christian has played with nearly everybody, including that All-Star trio with Herbie Hancock and Jack DeJohnette. And more people were trying to play like Michael Brecker than John Coltrane a decade ago.
Posted by: Charlie at Aug 24, 2007 9:38:02 AM
Of course, one cannot forgo Quakertown, PA, my home town and home of the indoor flea market, the QMart. Albeit it's hickish name, you can find some of the best food and music in the state.
Also, if you enjoy Reading, Albright College's John Pankratz has a "Faces of Reading" project. http://www.albright.edu/FacesofReading/page2.html
The sports are great; however, being from near Philadelphia, we could really use a championship. The Phils are the first team to surpass the 10,000 loss mark.
Posted by: Nick at Aug 24, 2007 9:50:04 AM
Lets not forget I was born there, in Pittsburgh... :)
Oh, and the Main Line.
Oh, and F&M's beautiful campus
Oh, and Hershey (Milton that is)
Oh, and Ben Franklin for all the non-writer things he did. Truly one of the greatest Americans ever.
Posted by: David Kearns at Aug 24, 2007 9:57:33 AM
TV: The Office (setting Scranton, PA)
Posted by: Bob at Aug 24, 2007 10:00:00 AM
Thanks Tyler, I agree. Every time I go back to PA, I wonder why I live in ugly NOVA.
As for Harrisburg, I wouldn't call it a blight. Lots of tasty restaurants. T. Rooosevelt called the capitol "the handsomest building I ever saw".
Posted by: LB at Aug 24, 2007 10:03:11 AM
Presuming there's no need to go on about the Penguins and Steelers... how about Pittsburgh-natives Rusted Root, and Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails)?
And Tyler, how could you skip the "O" -- The Original Hot Dog Shop?
Posted by: Howard Fienberg at Aug 24, 2007 10:03:29 AM
Doylestown PA offers Henry Chapman Mercer's Fonthill, a bizarre castle-like home, as well as his Mercer Museum which highlights preindustrial hand-tools, vehicles and machinery.
Gettysburg is tragic, but enables you to immerse yourself in what a Civil War battle was like.
Posted by: John Kunze at Aug 24, 2007 10:18:05 AM
Midtown Scholar, in Harrisburg, is a fine bookstore.
Posted by: Bill Sebring at Aug 24, 2007 10:27:06 AM
Lebanon bologna
Posted by: Kent Guida at Aug 24, 2007 10:34:53 AM
Pittsburgh's bridges aren't so nice when you have to commute over them. CMU may be building ground-breaking robots, but the city can't even master 19th century technology (such as asphalt). The schools spend $18,000 per student each year and can't even keep the drop-out rate below a third.
And the taxes. Property taxes of 3% a year, 4% income tax to the local governments, 4% income tax to the state, 50% parking tax, and a 7% sales tax (that almost went to 8% this year). And those are just the taxes I had to pay this week. There is also the 3% real estate transfer tax, which is a great thing to find on top of your other closing costs. And then, you have two separate government produced monopolies to support if you want a drink (state liquor stores and beer distributors) and new taxes on alcohol by the drink.
And once our new mayor gets old enough to shave, he's going to want to foist another giant white elephant public-works project on the city.
Pittsburgh has higher taxes and worse public services than any place I have lived. Some may wonder why they left, I wonder why the population has only dropped by 50%. Machine politics have already killed the city and some 300,000 of us have stuck around because the corpse doesn't smell that bad yet.
Posted by: MH at Aug 24, 2007 10:47:08 AM
Yeah, Lebanon Bologna,scrapple and great pork, too
Posted by: Rich Berger at Aug 24, 2007 11:16:36 AM
nothing about pat's and gino's? the great koch's? nothing about dinic's? philly is the sandwich capital of the country!
Posted by: t at Aug 24, 2007 11:25:13 AM
We feel Tyler's pain, just having dropped off our daughter, Sasha,
yesterday at GMU...
Posted by: Barkley Rosser at Aug 24, 2007 11:38:24 AM
Pennsylvania is a dam in my head. Either energy or flood comes out of it.
Posted by: Yan Li at Aug 24, 2007 11:39:08 AM
Now Tyler. Come on! "Pennsylvania is better than your state". What has gotten into you challenging your fan base?
I have two obvious reactions I could rant and rave about how PA sucks or I could mention the million things that are better about my favorite state but neither of these choices really would win many points in a frivolous argument. In actuality I will have to sooth my soul by realizing that you are using 'me factor' criteria that is heavily influenced by the presence of one 'Yana' among other things.
When she moves to CO then the best state has a chance of becoming your favorite too.
Posted by: SS at Aug 24, 2007 12:10:03 PM
Wilbur buds (chocolates) from Lititz, PA
Posted by: indiana jim at Aug 24, 2007 12:12:43 PM
Pennsylvania would be great for producing Updike alone, and i'm glad you cited The Coup, a grossly underappreciated (and hilarious) book. But come on, there are so many good ones. How about Roger's Version? Or In the Beauty of the Lillies? Or the entire (mostly Pennsylvania-based) Rabbit cycle? Even the Bech books aren't blech.
To the tax complainer, I have only two words: New York.
Posted by: Dan at Aug 24, 2007 12:21:53 PM
"The bottom line: Almost certainly, Pennsylvania is better than your state."
Hah. I live in Vermont. :)
Posted by: Michael at Aug 24, 2007 12:23:27 PM
The daughter of a libertarian going to a college with a significant heterodox presence in the econ department? Watch out or she'll become a Marxist! I made it through to grad school without incident though! F&M is a great school, I hope she enjoys it.
Posted by: adam at Aug 24, 2007 12:35:23 PM
also:
York Barbell Co. (from York, PA)
and
The Little League World Series (in Williamsport, PA)
Posted by: indiana jim at Aug 24, 2007 12:47:25 PM
also:
York Barbell Co. (from York, PA)
and
The Little League World Series (in Williamsport, PA)
Posted by: indiana jim at Aug 24, 2007 12:48:51 PM
interesting because most people look down on the state.
Posted by: Hmmm at Aug 24, 2007 12:52:17 PM
Hmmmmm, I think most people forget about it rather then look down on it.
Posted by: KevinLin at Aug 24, 2007 1:37:08 PM
I've never listened to Schooly D, but The Roots are from Philadelphia.
Posted by: Sean Carroll at Aug 24, 2007 1:45:09 PM
Pennsylvania's kind of a nothing state. It's not the Mid-West, it's not the South, It's not New England. Hell, it's not even New Jersey. On top of that, Eastern PA and Western PA are so different, it's questionable whether you can talk about a "Pennsylvania" identity in any meaningful way. Pennsylvania and upstate New York are both pretty similar - rust belt forgotten places whose time in the sun is long gone. There's a lot of natural beauty in both places, but I would them depressing places to live. I think Tyler's pretty much got it backwards, chances are whatever state you live in is better than Pennsylvania.
Posted by: vanya at Aug 24, 2007 1:51:17 PM
I live in California and nobody tells me their state is better than my state...
Posted by: at Aug 24, 2007 1:52:19 PM
I love PA! Don't live there, but still love it anyway. Maybe someday.
PS. Children Make Every Shop Important: Free Fundraiser for Children's Charities"
PA Children's Charities can use this site for free fundraising. PA residents can use this site to create funds for children's charities at no cost to them. Also includes discounts and coupons.
At any rate. I live in MI, but really, honestly, do love PA.
Posted by: Paul Gustafson at Aug 24, 2007 1:53:29 PM
No mention of Pennsylvania's greatest cultural export: Night of the Living Dead. (And maybe Dawn of the Dead, too.)
Posted by: Jesse at Aug 24, 2007 1:54:20 PM
...and those great, great roads, don't forget them..... Bwahaha! ;-)
When I lived near DC and then Ithaca, NY, I knew instantly when we were in Pennsylvania by the racket from the tires from all the cracks. It wasn't just the Interstates, either. Lesser roads were the same. And few shoulders outside the Interstates.
And I'm not getting the F&M love, either. I mean, yeah, it's got plenty of nice trees. But so do 80% of other college campuses in the world. Oh, boy. Unless, of course, you're only comparing against the UPenn campus, in which case it's easy to understand ;-).
Posted by: Jon at Aug 24, 2007 1:56:54 PM
Check out Keith Jarrett -- Standards Vol. 1.
Also, Sun Ra coined one of the great phrases of the last century: "Space is the place."
Posted by: PA or Bust at Aug 24, 2007 1:59:46 PM
9. Stepdaughter: Yana
who will be very pleased at being placed in last place.
Posted by: ad at Aug 24, 2007 2:39:09 PM
"Almost certainly Pennsylvania is better than your state."
How's the ocean there?
-Massachusetts
Posted by: Damon Katz at Aug 24, 2007 3:50:50 PM
Don't dismiss The Blob! No, not what you call people after eating a Philly cheesesteak. The classic film from the '50s - shot in Phoenixville and Downingtown.
Posted by: BXB283 at Aug 24, 2007 3:58:12 PM
Writer: Lloyd Alexander
Posted by: James Grimmelmann at Aug 24, 2007 5:54:08 PM
Posted by: scott at Aug 24, 2007 9:16:43 PM
Well, we kind of agree, . . . Updike hasn't written a good novel. . .
And the most American of cities of all is actually Evansville, Indiana.
It is situated on the Ohio river and is a little bit of everything it seems. It is where (or at least one of the places along a long line on the map) where people begin to speak with that signature draw, though it increases sharply 5 minutes across the river in Henderson KY.
Not quite Midwestern, not quite Southern. They seem to have an affinity with NY city, even before home-boy Don Mattingly signed with the Yanks (meaning that they are not inclined to shun the influence of other regions). Very racially mixed with no overt racism, even 30 years ago when I grew up there. (I learned about racism from the television.)
And after moving around quite a bit in the last 15 years or so, I think it's accurate to say if one were to take the figurative snapshot of Evansville, they would see a good representation of America.
But I do love Knoxville.
Posted by: Ray G at Aug 24, 2007 9:26:54 PM
Smoke Some Kill is good too.
Posted by: Josh at Aug 24, 2007 9:56:16 PM
Doesn't Pennsylvania have the oldest population in the USA? It's geezers waiting to die, their kids having left the minute they graduated from HS.
Pennsylvania is a contender in my worst-state-of-the-union competition that I'm organizing.
What will keep Pennsylvania from bringing home the championship is its bland, blah quality. It lacks the aggressive crappiness of Arkansas or Mississippi or West Virginia.
Posted by: Auto at Aug 24, 2007 10:39:29 PM
The best Schooly D rap is the one where he smokes marijuana, watches TV, and imagines the members of the Brady Bunch having intercourse. Also the phrase M.. F.. Prince.
Posted by: argicol at Aug 24, 2007 10:59:00 PM
Schooly D makes the homeys so "ho," and the girlies want to scream.
Best thing that not there anymore: The 700-level at The Vet. (Go Birds!)
Posted by: Chris Harris at Aug 24, 2007 11:21:51 PM
.
Going on right now, the Centre County Grange Fair, the last encampment fair remaining in the United States.
http://www.grangefair.net/
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Posted by: michael at Aug 24, 2007 11:28:54 PM
"Doesn't Pennsylvania have the oldest population in the USA? It's geezers waiting to die, their kids having left the minute they graduated from HS." No, I believe that's Florida, with PA coming in second or third. Supposedly it comes in first in terms of number of hate groups...
Posted by: lnm at Aug 25, 2007 2:26:20 AM
really appreciated the post, tyler. i was born, raised and educated in and outside of philadelphia, and today i move to new york for grad school and who knows how long.
loved the koch's shoutout. i'm gonna miss the pcom special, even if things haven't been the same since bobby passed away. homecoming can't come soon enough.
as for the rest of the state, i think very few other states have beautiful drives so close to their major cities. unless you get caught in traffic on the turnpike.
Posted by: ryan at Aug 25, 2007 9:49:11 AM
Pennsylvania Macaroni Company in Pgh (e.g., p. reggiano $10/lb, societe roquefort $14/lb)
Posted by: Paul N at Aug 25, 2007 7:07:55 PM
"Hell, it's not even New Jersey?" - what? The state is either an extension of NYC or a beach for Philadelphians.
At any rate, Jeff Koons was born in York, PA!! Fun fact.
Posted by: Brad at Aug 25, 2007 10:54:02 PM
Don't forget all those old guys -- Fred Waring, Vaughn Monroe, Cab Calloway, the Kellys, Gene and Grace and so many, many more. My wife and I drove across the state last weekend and the scenery was breathtaking. We stopped in Ligonier in the Laurel Highlands, one of the prettiest towns in the nation. Next week, the Poconos.
Posted by: D. B. Light at Aug 26, 2007 3:03:15 AM
"It's not the Mid-West, it's not the South, It's not New England. Hell, it's not even New Jersey."
That's precisely why it's such a great place.
Also, I don't think anyone mentioned all the great microbreweries, many of which are only distributed in PA.
Pennsylvania has some backward, Quaker/Puritan-style liquor laws, yes, but there is some other legal framework in place which I can't recall that makes Penn's Woods a desirable place to locate a microbrewery.
Some favorites off the top of my head:
Church Brew Works in Pittsburgh (it gets bonus points for actually being brewed in a large old church)
Lancaster Brewing Co. (try the cherry wheat ale)
Victory Brewing Co. (very hoppy pale ales)
East End Brewing Co. (another Pittsburgh craft; they get bonus points for basically being a sole proprietorship, and for trying their hand at brewing anything and everything under the sun)
Posted by: at Aug 26, 2007 10:26:03 AM
Also, Temple Law's Tort book cites Alex. :)
Posted by: Genevieve at Aug 27, 2007 8:39:30 AM
I think my friend from New Hampshire who graduated CMU with me summed up pittsburgh very nicely when he was visiting school.
"I'm not coming back to this hell-hole ever again"
And he was one of the more popular kids in school.
Posted by: MikeLee at Aug 27, 2007 10:15:41 AM
Pennsylvania is a dump.
Beautiful landscapes, but totally shabby infrastructure. Scranton? York? Allentown? Ug. You would be hard pressed to find a state with a higher proportion of very crummy cities.
Posted by: Spike at Aug 27, 2007 2:10:00 PM
Popular actor: Jimmy Stewart is from Indiana. There's a museum about him there.
Popular writer: Zane Grey was from Lackawaxen, near the Delaware Water Gap, and there's a little historical site about him there too.
Not popular but impressive painter: Franz Kline was from Wilkes-Barre and went to school in Philadelphia.
eautiful landscapes, but totally shabby infrastructure. Scranton? York? Allentown? Ug.
By "shabby" you mean "old and built for more people than currently live there".
Posted by: Cryptic Ned at Aug 28, 2007 5:28:01 PM
I went to college in Maine but moved back to PA, after 12 years as a Mainiac, to teach and raise a family. Maine is a wonderful state but Pennsylvania is the best for so many reasons, not least of which are raising a family and a lack of xenophobia. Three of my children finished degrees and moved to live and teach in other states. PA can afford to let its natives go elsewhere as they are culturally enabled by the superior opportunities for learning that are available. Unfortunately for my kids, there is a glut of well-trained teachers in the state. However, the superior skills and depth of education that they achieved in Pennsylvania are in high demand throughout the midwest and south.
Posted by: hrteacher at Aug 28, 2007 8:29:16 PM
As an Altoona native and rail buff I have to put in a word for the Horseshoe Curve, along with the Gallitzin tunnels just to the west, which together comprise an engineering marvel allowing a mighty railway to surmount the Allegheny Front separating the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico drainage basins.
Back in 1970, my first year in New York City, my roommate's fiancee, who was from Lancaster, would show up on weekends with big red and white tins of Stehman's potato chips. The label proudly declared: "Fried in real lard." Yum.
Ray G: My dad grew up in Hatfield, just a little east of Evansville. One of my cousins once served as sheriff of Spencer County. My parents met when dad was on Army recruiting duty in Pennsylvania (my mom is from Tyrone) early in World War II.
During that same stint as a recruiter, Dad got to know Jimmy Stewart and his family. Later, he and Jimmy served at the same Eighth Army Air Corps base in England.
Posted by: Claude Scales at Aug 29, 2007 11:42:44 AM
Ohio is certainly better than Penn.
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