Megabus adds cities
Megabus adds cities
PITTSBURGH
The Megabus.com transportation service is using Pittsburgh to bring service to nine new cities.
Company officials say Pittsburgh will be the hub for service to Erie; Detroit; Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; Akron; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Columbus; and Toledo.
Pittsburgh already has service to New York; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Harrisburg; and State College.
Seats can be booked now. Service will begin May 11 with trips originating under the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
Travelers who book well in advance can get one-way fares as low as $1.
Moving records
BILLINGS, Mont.
The National Park Service says it will remove thousands of historic objects and records from Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
Park service officials said recently that the items will be kept in a storage facility in Tuscon, Ariz.
Officials say the move is temporary until a more secure and permanent repository is established at the battlefield.
The collection of more than 149,000 records and artifacts are in the basement of the park’s visitor center.
Park officials say that location is substandard and puts the records at risk of deterioration, fire or flood.
Civil War exhibit
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library is marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
The museum has a new exhibit that features pictures, letters, sketches and songs from the Illinois men who fought on the side of the Union against Confederate forces during the war.
The exhibit is called “Illinois Answers the Call: Boys in Blue.” It opens April 12 and will run through Dec. 30.
The display includes pictures of the soldiers, diaries and artifacts.
Women of jazz
WASHINGTON
The first integrated women’s big band is getting some special attention from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
The museum will display archival materials from the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. The group was founded in 1937 by students at the Piney Woods School in Rankin County, Mississippi. They performed at churches, state fairs, dance halls and eventually the Apollo Theater.
This first all-female jazz band will be a focal point of the museum’s 10th annual Jazz Appreciation Month in April. This year’s programs focus on the legacies of women in jazz.
Associated Press