Both were built on the site of the old Benedict Farm. See below for what Miller-Driscoll looked like before the buildings were there.

We are so excited you decided to join us on our journey across the United States of America.

Feel free to wear these wristbands to school, on your travels, anytime!

 

 

Examples of what counts towards your family’s mileage: 

·        Walking the dog

·        Going on a hike

·        Walking around town

·        Riding a bike

·        Running around the yard
.        Parents riding Peloton

……..And so much more!

 

When you are doing the above activities:

·        Track your distance on your iphone/other device, you can also use googlemaps to help. If necessary, feel free to estimate.

 

·        If more than 1 family member participates, you can multiply the distance. For example: You, your child, and your dog go for a walk- you can multiply your mileage x3 and enter that distance. Pups are part of the family too!

 

·        After each activity, please go to the Fun Run Miles Tracker and enter the information in so we can keep on traveling!

 

·        You will receive an email every time we hit a new spot as a reminder to go visit the site and learn more about where we are.

 
Email Alexis at Fundraising@millerdriscollpta.org with any questions.

- Before 1776, the United States of America was not a country. The individual states were colonies of the British Empire. They were called British Colonies. This means that the King and Parliament of Great Britain ruled the Colonies.

- Five people to wrote it:

•           John Adams

•           Benjamin Franklin

•           Thomas Jefferson, 

•           Robert R. Livingston

•           Roger Sherman

-The Philadelphia Zoo, which opened on July 1, 1874, is the nation's first zoo. 

-It started with a collection of 1,000 animals and admission cost just a quarter! 

-Today, it houses more than 13,000 animals and is one of the best in the world for breeding animals that otherwise struggle in captivity, and it's a leader in conservation efforts worldwide. 

Using the same melody, her kindergarten students would sometimes swap in different lyrics, including the ‘Happy Birthday’ lyrics we know today.

Legend is Bud, an apprentice in his father’s woodworking shop, headed out one spring afternoon to take in a Louisville Eclipse game, the city’s major league team. After seeing Eclipse superstar Pete Browning break his bat that day, Bud invited Browning over to his father's shop where he offered to make him a new bat. With Browning at his side giving advice, Bud hand-crafted a new bat from a long slab of wood. Browning debuted the bat the very next day. He snapped his slump, collecting a trio of hits and setting in motion a chain of events whose effects are felt still today.

The Louisville Slugger Museum is home to the world’s biggest bat. At 68,000 pounds and 120-feet tall, it’s an exact-scale replica of Babe Ruth’s 34-inch Louisville Slugger bat. 

Parades are a huge part of the festivities. The first first Mardi Gras parade was held in New Orleans on Feb. 24, 1857 and there have been nearly 2,000 Mardi Gras parades since then. 

Each parade has their own theme taken from history, children's stories, legends, geography, famous people, entertainment, mythology and literature. All the floats are decorated to fit the theme and every year the krewe picks a new theme.

It is a Mardi Gras tradition that the riders on the floats throw out festive items to the crowd. That can include beaded necklaces, toys, cups and doubloons (colorful aluminum coins stamped with the parade organization and theme) or other trinkets. 

As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. It was either the 39th or 40th state admitted to the union. Before signing the statehood papers, President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the papers so that no one could tell which became a state first.

Construction began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Each president was originally to be depicted from head to waist, but due to a lack of funding construction was ended in 1941, with only the faces complete.  

About 400 men and women were involved in its carving. Among its workers, there were drillers, housekeepers, blacksmith and many more. 

The structure is 60 feet tall.  The President’s eyes alone are said to be around 11 feet across. Initially, the team involved used drills and jackhammers to remove granite from the side of the mountain. With 450,000 tons of granite to be removed, chisels and jackhammers were not enough. The team introduced the use of dynamite. 90% of the granite removed from Mount Rushmore was by dynamite.

If you are trying to get people to visit a National Park, why would you call it “Bad”?

The name is an homage to people that lived in the Badlands before it was a national park. For hundreds of years, the Lakota people have called this area mako sica, which literally translates to “bad lands.”

The land presented many challenges to those living and travel in the area. When it rains in the Badlands, the wet clay becomes slick and sticky, making it very difficult to cross. The jagged canyons and buttes that cover the landscape also make it hard to navigate.

 The winters are cold and windy, the summers are hot and dry. It is these same conditions that made it the beautiful park it is today.

The sculptures were made from concrete with iron-pipe frames, making them exceptionally sturdy.

The park now boasts 7 dinosaur sculptures with a Protoceratops and a Dimetrodon added in the 1950s.  One of the rare displays that encourages kids to climb the dinos, Dinosaur Park is very popular with the under 12 set, who really don’t care if the Brontosaurus has the wrong head, if it’s smiling.

A volcano is considered “super” if it has had at least one explosion that released more than 240 cubic miles of material— That’s enough material to bury the state of Texas five feet deep! 

Yellowstone has had at least three such eruptions: 2.1 million years ago, 1.2 million years ago and 640,000 years ago. 

Scientist are finding evidence that there may have been even more super eruptions, dating back as far as 12 million years ago. These eruptions are what shaped the beautiful landscape we see today. 

Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world. At 370 feet in diameter it is bigger than a football field. A gridiron is 360 feet long and 160 feet wide. With a depth of 121 feet it can swallow up a 10-story building.  

Water at the center of the spring, which bubbles up  from underground chambers, can reach temperatures around 189 degrees Fahrenheit which makes it too hot to sustain most life. Because there's very little living in the center of the pool, the water looks extremely clear, and has a beautiful, deep-blue color (thanks to the scattering of blue wavelengths—the same reason oceans and lakes appear blue to the naked eye).

The rainbow spectrum of colors around the spring ranging from red to green is all thanks to the heat-loving bacteria that call the spring home.  As the water spreads out from the center and cools, it creates circles of varying temperatures—And each ring creates a very different environment inhabited by different types of bacteria. And it's the different types of bacteria that give the spring its prismatic colors.

Thanks to conservation efforts, bison were brought back from brink of extinction.  In 1902, there were only 23 bison in Yellowstone and today there are close to 5,000.

Bison are the largest land-dwelling animal in North America. A bull (male) can weigh up to 2,000 pounds; a cow (female) up to 1,000 pounds. A bison’s shoulder hump can peak at 6 feet tall. They can jump over objects up to 5 ft tall and can run up to 35 miles an hour.

The first mayor changed the town's name to San Francisco in 1848. Its 469 residents including Ohlone Indians, Americans, Spanish Californians, Hawaiians, Europeans, South Americans, and New Zealanders.

After James Marshall found gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848, the world poured into San Francisco. By 1852, the city swelled to almost 25,000 inhabitants. 

The California gold rush transformed a fishing village into the internationally-famous city of San Francisco almost overnight. Today, San Francisco's 49 square miles are home to more than 800,000 people.

Official Program to Golden Gate Opening Day

https://www.goldengate.org/assets/1/6/officialprogram.pdf

The U.S. Navy had lobbied that the bridge be painted in blue and yellow stripes to increase its visibility. The Army Air Corps wanted candy cane red and white stripes. The signature International Orange hue was actually the color of the primer. But when the steel arrived in San Francisco painted in a burnt red hue as primer, the consulting architect decided the color was both highly visible—and more pleasing to the eye. The bridge's color is officially called international orange.