By Tim Hahn, Erie Times-News, Pa. Aug. 2--TITUSVILLE -- The "Valley that Changed the World" promises to be a busy place over the next 17 months.

By Brian Bowling Edwin Drake left his family's Vermont farm at age 19 in 1838 and spent the next 11 years working in clerking jobs.

By Marilyn Forbes On Aug. 27, 1859, shouts of "Oil!" reverberated throughout the area around Titusville in Crawford County, striking a chord in history as oil gushed upward for the first time in the Venango oilfield. Edwin Drake and the Seneca Oil Co.

By Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Jul. 24--Edwin Drake had just about run out of luck in that August of 1859.

Pennsylvania is experiencing a mini-oil- and natural gas-drilling boom, state officials say. Drilling activity is on pace to set a third consecutive yearly record, the Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday.