Jennifer Brady, the American tennis player originally from Mechanicsburg, PA, has earned a spot in the women's final of the Australian Open.
"Mechanicsburg - that storied town, my own private Mayberry! Even today it is difficult for me to recognize as a real grandmother anyone who doesn't live in a place with stout corner churches and red-brick sidewalks and gravelly alleys that all seem to lead to Rakestraw's Ice Cream, whose double-dip cones we always somehow found room for after Grandma's fried chicken and graham cracker pie. Mechanicsburg conditioned me early to expect glad rewards at the end of a long journey."
- from the introduction to A Way to See the World
