I've been here once, in 2004, and at the one in Gettysburg two and possible three times. I was talking about this with bartender Brian when I mentioned a poster I had seen at Gettysburg. There were several posters of ABC labels hanging there and one featured four men with brewing gear in a Beatlesque Abbey Road crossing scene. When I told of how cool I thought that poster was, Brian pulled a small box from a cabinet behind the bar and flipped through a small bundles of cards. Then he slid a magnetized version of that very poster/label across the bar. That alone would have made my day but Brian also identified the four figures with updates. I'm not sure of all the names so will omit most of them but, from left to right, the picture contains the original head brewer, a fellow who has gone over to Dogfish Head Brewery, and a guy who has vanished happily into the wilds of Alaska with his wife. That's Artie Tafoya, the current brew master, on the right.

From 1834 to 1854, the portage carried canal boats over the Allegheny Mountains to complete a connection between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The boats were pulled up rails on the mountain sides by stationary steam engines. It's a story bigger than I can tell here but this video does a pretty good job. It's the same one I watched at the park's visitor center. The Huntingdon, Cambria, & Indiana Turnpike was already in place when the canal came through and this is where the pike and the rails crossed. Apparently a straight line was important to both parties so this impressive skewed arch bridge was built in 1832. There's a bridge related sign here and the four plaques on the monument are here, here, here, and here. There's a lot of stuff at the park I didn't see so I definitely need to return.