Beating the COVID Blues in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Still in the clutches of the COVID-19 situation, and with little much to do, I decided to make a short drive to the bucolic Blue Ridge Mountains of Maryland and Pennsylvania. These mountains pass through the Maryland panhandle and parts of Central Pennsylvania, and were the scene of considerable action during the Civil War’s Gettysburg Campaign.

At the very bottom of Pennsylvania’s Franklin County, just over the Maryland line, sits picturesque Blue Ridge Summit, a tiny hamlet that sits atop South Mountain and whose environs straddle two states and four counties. It was also the home of a very small