Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was built by people who worked hard and stuck together. The way you have lived here, and what you believe today, are worth keeping in your own words.
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When you hear a mill whistle or a train horn, which part of your life comes back?
Pennsylvania gave the country big ideas about freedom, and you have your own ideas about freedom and fairness that deserve a hearing, written in your own words a question at a time. The steel towns, farm stands and back roads in autumn can come along too. Everything stays private while you live, then goes to the people you choose.
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Pennsylvania
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were both debated and signed in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and the cracked Liberty Bell remains an international symbol of liberty. Big ideas about freedom started here, but so did millions of quieter lives. What do freedom and fairness mean to you, in your own life? Your answer, written in your own words today, can mean a great deal to the people you choose.
From 1875 to 1980, southwestern Pennsylvania was known as the Steel Making Capital of the World, and Scranton's old rail yards now hold a national park site about steam railroading. Plenty of Pennsylvanians grew up with a mill whistle, a shift schedule or a train horn in the background. If work shaped your town, it probably shaped you too. Tell the generations after you what that work was like and what it taught you.
Near Lancaster, the state's Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum tells the story of Pennsylvania German farm and village life from 1750 to 1940, the largest museum of its kind in the country. Rural Pennsylvania has its own slow beauty: a farm stand, a covered porch, a back road in autumn. Whether you live in the country or just love to visit, describe the places that feel like home to you. Those pictures in words will last.
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