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 Bus Trip
Fallingwater and Flight 93 Memorial

Saturday, November 2, 2024 

Bus Departs from Boscov's Parking Area in Camp Hill, PA at 8am

Includes a stop at the South Midway Service Plaza on the return trip

The South Midway Service plaza is one of the original service plazas on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
It features Turnpike memorabilia on display and historic photographs fill the walls.

 

Cost:
$110 for Members of:
PA Heritage Foundation, State Museum of PA
or Historic Harrisburg Association

$120 for Non-Members

Due to limited seats, on-line purchasing is closed.
To purchase, call the PA Heritage Foundation office at 717-787-9123


Schedule:

8:00am       Meet Bus at Boscov's Camp Hill

11:30am     Arrive Fallingwater

12noon       Tours Begin (Launch every 15 minutes)

  • Lunch on your own at Fallingwater

2:30pm       Depart Fallingwater

3:45pm       Arrive Flight 93 Memorial

  • Self-guided Tour
  • The visitor center closes at 5pm

5:00pm       Bus departs to Tower of Voices 

5:30pm       Bus departs from lower lot, Tower of Voices

6:00pm       Arrive South Midway Service Plaza
South Midway Service Plaza

  • Dinner on your own

7:00pm       Depart South Midway Service Plaza

8:30pm       Arrive Boscov's Camp Hill

 

Fallingwater: Fallingwater is a house designed in 1935 by renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) for the Kaufmann family, owners of Pittsburgh’s largest department store. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is one of his most widely acclaimed works and best exemplifies his philosophy of organic architecture: the harmonious union of art and nature. Wright designed Fallingwater to rise above the waterfall over which it is built. Local craftsmen quarried native sandstone and other materials from the property and completed the construction of the main house, guest house and service wing in 1939.

 

Flight 93 Memorial: Flight 93 National Memorial is a place to learn about the 40 passengers and crew members of Flight 93 whose actions thwarted four hijackers' plans to fly their plane to a target in Washington, DC during the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. At Flight 93 National Memorial you can walk beside their final resting place, learn their stories, and honor their extraordinary courage in preventing an attack on our Nation’s Capital.

The Visitor Center features a permanent exhibition that focuses on the Flight 93 story within the context of the larger terrorist attack. Experience a self-guided tour around artifacts, multi-media, and interactive exhibits that begin early on the morning of September 11, 2001. The exhibits recount the story of the passengers and crew members and describes the response and investigation following the crash. 

The Memorial Plaza extends one-quarter-mile alongside the area where Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001. Ten years later, after the dedication of the permanent memorial in September 2011, this walkway replaced a security fence that protected the crash site, debris field, and ultimately, the final resting place of the 40 passengers and crew. Today, the Memorial Plaza allows visitors a walk beside this hallowed landscape.

Located underneath the flight path and final approach of Flight 93, the Wall of Names is constructed from white marble. Forty individually selected and polished marble stones are inscribed with each of the passenger and crew member names. Black granite denotes the flight path. From the Ceremonial Gate, constructed of hemlock wood, visitors can look down the flight path to the last piece of granite etched with the time of the crash and the impact site marked by a distant sandstone boulder.

The Tower of Voices serves as both a visual and audible reminder of the heroism of the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93.The tower is conceived as a monumental, ninety-three-feet-tall musical instrument holding 40 wind chimes, representing the 40 passengers and crew members. 

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