Harriet Baskas

Don't eat the cake at Philadelphia Int'l Airport

stuckattheairport.com — Posted on by Harriet Baskas Feels very appropriate to be writing this blog post on my birthday after sharing an evening with good friends and eating cake... The newest exhibit at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)features the work of Melissa Maddonni Haims, who has crocheted a series of layer cakes which are on view in Terminal D through November 2013.

TSA Week in Review: Record 65 Firearms Discovered In Carry-on Bags (54 Loaded)

blog.tsa.gov — Record 65 Firearms Discovered This Week - This beats our previous record of 50 guns. Of the 65 firearms, 54 were loaded and 19 had rounds chambered. See a complete list and more photos at the bottom of this post.

Museums launch free admission for military families

nbcnews.com — Courtesy Blue Star Families Active duty military personnel and their families now have one more tradition to add to the Memorial Day holiday weekend: free admission at more than 2,000 arts, science and history museums around the country.

Airports marking Memorial Day holiday weekend

stuckattheairport.com — Posted on by Harriet Baskas Here's a quick round-up of what some airports have on tap for travelers flying during the Memorial Day holiday weekend: Look for 50 glass poppies on stems around the fountain in the Main Terminal at Orlando International Airport.

Airports named for aviation pioneers

stuckattheairport.com — Former presidents George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton all have airports named for them. So do former cabinet secretaries John Foster Dulles and Norman Y. Mineta and celebrities as varied as John Wayne, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Will Rogers and Arnold Palmer.