Dead Centre Katie O'Toole

Sherm Lutz was a pioneer aviator in Centre County. Find out how his legacy lives on.

Dive into the adventures of the early airmail pilots who flew blindly across the Allegheny Mountains, stopping in Bellefonte, PA, on the first leg of the transcontinental airmail route, and hear from Bob Hines whose Uncle Dan wrote an early history of the airmail pioneers.
Thanks to the following artists whose work was used in this production:
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The Civilian Conservation Corps is a Depression Era federal jobs program that left an extraordinary legacy in Centre County.

Philipsburg, PA philanthropist Charles Rowland built a theatre for his community in 1917. One hundred years later, Dead Centre revisits his legacy.

In the 19th century, Leonard Rhone started Centre County's Grange Fair as a way to promote education and fellowship among farm families. Today, visitors still gather at his Georgian mansion in Centre Hall, Pa.

An historic home in Milesburg, PA could not be salvaged, so its owner is turning it into a work of art called "The Crooked House."