Many Folks Spending Memorial Day Weekend Doing A Lot Of…Nothing
While many will make the tradition trek down to the Jersey Shore this Memorial Day weekend, not everybody will be leaving town. So what will they be up to?
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While many will make the tradition trek down to the Jersey Shore this Memorial Day weekend, not everybody will be leaving town. So what will they be up to?
Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia is full of events. For example you can celebrate the holiday all week long at the National Constitution Center.
If crowds on the boardwalk mean anything, visitors have put the Superstorm in the back of their minds. Getting them to open their wallets? That's something else again.
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This Memorial Day weekend, there'll be plenty of picnics, barbecues and get-togethers to celebrate the start of the summer season. Here are a few tips to keep your pets safe.
Planting a flag of flowers for Memorial Day weekend gives you a great display for all our patriotic holidays through the summer.
Analysts predict this will be the cheapest summer at the pump since the end of the recession.
How do you celebrate Memorial Day, and what does this federal holiday mean to you and your family? Read what some of our country's veterans had to say about Memorial Day, patriotism and what this annual holiday means to them.
Visiting monuments this Memorial Day is a refreshing way of fostering a child's education outside of the classroom, paying tribute to those who died in war and remembering America's leaders.
Everyone longs for summer, barbecues, and cookouts. Whatever your specialty, there are grilling gadgets galore to make the job easier and even more fun.
You've heard the message often enough from towns down the shore in the months after Hurricane Sandy: They'll be ready for tourists come Memorial Day.
Memorial Day turned into an especially violent night in Philadelphia, with three shootings in the span of just 41 minutes.
The museum was open round-the-clock for the three-day weekend, highlighting the greater accessibility of the new location.
Thanks to the suggestion of the Korean War Memorial Committee, today's event honored the service of the city's police and firefighters, for whom there's not yet a memorial.
Being a prisoner of war can result in great acclaim (as with Senator John McCain) or silent suffering with wounds nobody else can understand. A new book sheds light on some of those latter stories.
The parade traditionally begins with a wreath laying ceremony at Holy Redeemer Cemetary. But, organizers say last year they came close to not holding the event due to lack of funds, but the community held fundraising drives.
The backdrop couldn't have been any more perfect for what's believed to be the country's oldest Memorial Day Parade in Doylestown, Bucks County. This parade has been going on for more than 145 years.
With the temperature expected to top out at a humid 90 degrees today, AAA MidAtlantic reminds you to make sure your car is ready for summer driving.
In Bucks County, an annual Memorial Day service in Northampton Township remembered a fallen hero who lost his life less than a year ago.
The Army has been confronting an alarming increase in the number of suicides among soldiers and it's seeking help from an unusual source: the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository.
Civil war re-enactors, veterans and the public gathered at Laurel Hill Cemetery in East Falls on Sunday for the annual Memorial Day service. The ceremony at the grave of General George Gordon Meade honors all veterans.
Preparations have been underway all over the region leading up to Memorial Day events. One man's family business has been helping others honor those who have passed away for 140 years.
In Wildwood, New Jersey Vince Deprinzio touched the names on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall. It's one of only three in the country that is an exact half-size replica of the official wall in Washington D.C.
Philadelphia police and fire personnel, the soldiers of our streets, will be honored at a Memorial Day service in Society Hill tomorrow, and all are invited.
No major problems were being reported as of late Saturday morning. But motorists were still being urged to allow extra travel times to reach their destinations.
