Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.
The University of Pennsylvania and my wonderful colleagues in the Department of Religious Studies have been routinely sent hate emails about me. Calls to fire me are numerous. Some have even come from within the university. The Penn Switchboard is flooded with calls, and the more conservative alums threaten to stop contributing.
It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.
I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.
I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.
One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.'
I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.
