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Left to Rot, Bedford Springs Celebrates Regaining Its Former Glory

Left to Rot, Bedford Springs Celebrates Regaining Its Former Glory
Bedford Springs Hotel. Courtesy of Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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BEDFORD, Pa.—For nearly two decades, every time the alarm rang out from Bedford Fire Department No. 1, people in town would say a little prayer that the call wasn’t for the old Bedford Springs Hotel—a primarily wooden structure built when Thomas Jefferson was president that was sitting abandoned just a mile outside town.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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