THE Must See Tourist Spot in Western Pennsylvania

If you're in Western Pennsylvania and looking for a hot tourist spot would you...

1. Go to the Andy Warhol Museum?
2. Go to Fallingwater, the Frank Lloyd Wright house over a waterfall?
3. Or would you go to Pymatuning State Park?

According to the Wall Street Journal, #3 should be your answer by a count of 2.9 to 1 compared to #2 and by a whopping 4.6 to one over #1. Why so? Why a state park instead of these cultural icons? Is it because of some fantastic natural beauty? No. Is there an amusement park there? No.

The answer is carp. To be specific feed stale bread to carp. The attraction is evidently feeding stale or otherwise inedible bread products to a teeming mass of carp. This activity attracts something like 400,000 people a year with virtually no promotion. The carp have become so numerous that when they are being fed there are enough of the fish that the local ducks and geese can walk on their backs to try to get their share of the goodies.

I'm sure that if we were to contemplate and study this there would be some significant lesson concerning human nature. Or maybe we'd find that people are fairly simple and just like to see a frenzy of feeding fish.