Franklin Chamber of Commerce
This site is maintained by the local Chamber and highlights many of Franklin's finer points.

City of Franklin
The city government's official site, with plenty of local information and links.

Franklin CIN
The Franklin Community Information Network-- an interesting civic cyber community undertaking, with a variety of interesting pieces of information from a variety of sources.

Franklin
A privately maintained website about the city with lots of information and photos-- even a live Franklin webcam feed!

Applefest
A guide to the city's biggest festival of the year.

Barrow-Civic Theater
The jewel in Franklin's downtown crown, this fully refurbished theater provides a super setting for local community theater, various touring performers, and, once a year, the Franklin Silver Cornet Band. Come and visit-- you will beamazed at what this small-town setting can provide. All the info you need is at this site.

DeBence Antique Music World
The DeBence collection showcases band organs and other mechanical music makers from days gone by. This is a world class collection, and unlike some stuffy museums, these folks will let you hear these great old music makers in action.

Allegheny Trails
The Oil Region has some wonderful rails-to-trails for hiking, biking, and skiing alongside the beautiful Allegheny river, past both forests and great old historic landmarks. This site provides a guide to the best.

Oil Heritage Region Info
This site provides information about the resources, events and attractions in the Oil Heritage Region.

Victorian Region
This site highlights the Victorian cities of northwestern PA, including Franklin. A must for architecture fans.

Venango Newspapers
This will lead you to the site for The Derrick and The News-Herald, Venango County's two major newspapers.

Wetland Splendors

This takes you to the work of the Oil Heritage Region's premiere nature photographer, John Karian. See some of the most gorgeous views of Venango County.

Glen L. Roberts' Pennsylvania Directory
Glen Roberts maintains a website of all things Pennsylvanian. Here's the Franklin portal.

Oil Region Arts
Joann Wheeler, the arts champion of Oil City, is maintaining a weblist of local arts resources.

Venangago-go
Mike Dittman provides the current scoop on arts and culture in NW PA

Community Band links
Probably the biggest, most current directory of community band, their addresses, and their webpages anywhere on the net.

Association of Concert Bands
The international voice of adult bands. Their official website, with tons of useful band stuff.

Making Music Magazine
A magazine and website devoted to better living through recreational music.

Binmore Scale
Here's Peter Greene's slightly tongue-in-cheek directions on how to program music for band.