Hershey, PA is a pretty town with lots of facilities and schools for the residents thanks to the generosity of Milton Hershey, the founder of Hershey Chocolate. Light fixtures like this alternate with unwrapped chocolate kisses.
The Hershey Factory is in the center of town at the corner of Cocoa and Chocolate Avenues.
The amusement park across the street looked like a great family place.
We spent one day exploring Lancaster County, Amish country. We found a wonderful meat market with scrapple, garlic bologna (and other flavors), tongue souse, shoo-fly pie, and so much more. We stocked up.
This shop had very high-end quilts with exquisite hand quilting. A lady was demonstrating. She told me that she can hand quilt a king sized quilt in two weeks!! Then she showed me a photo of a quilt that she designed and made for a lady in California. The lady paid $6,000 for it. It was multicolored appliqued flowers on black in wall hanging size. It was gorgeous. She pieces all her quilts by hand.
The Old County Store has handmade gifts and food, quilts, fabric, quilt books/supplies, and many quilts made by local Amish women. Each quilt was hand quilted with tiny stitches. King size sold for $1,300. I could have stayed here much longer.
This is the view from the parking lot in Intercourse, PA where the shops were. Don't you love the name. One theory for the name is that "intercourse" meant pleasant mutual fellowship and frequent intermingling, common in a small town of the day. The other explanation is that horse races were held often. Since they began at that end of town, this was the "Enter Course," and this name eventually became Intercourse. The post office had no problem with the name because the word mean a commercial or trading site.
The infamous Three Mile Island is not far from our campground.
Hershey, PA is a pretty town with lots of facilities and schools for the residents thanks to the generosity of Milton Hershey, the founder of Hershey Chocolate. Light fixtures like this alternate with unwrapped chocolate kisses.
The Hershey Factory is in the center of town at the corner of Cocoa and Chocolate Avenues.
The amusement park across the street looked like a great family place.
We spent one day exploring Lancaster County, Amish country. We found a wonderful meat market with scrapple, garlic bologna (and other flavors), tongue souse, shoo-fly pie, and so much more. We stocked up.
This shop had very high-end quilts with exquisite hand quilting. A lady was demonstrating. She told me that she can hand quilt a king sized quilt in two weeks!! Then she showed me a photo of a quilt that she designed and made for a lady in California. The lady paid $6,000 for it. It was multicolored appliqued flowers on black in wall hanging size. It was gorgeous. She pieces all her quilts by hand.
The Old County Store has handmade gifts and food, quilts, fabric, quilt books/supplies, and many quilts made by local Amish women. Each quilt was hand quilted with tiny stitches. King size sold for $1,300. I could have stayed here much longer.
This is the view from the parking lot in Intercourse, PA where the shops were. Don't you love the name. One theory for the name is that "intercourse" meant pleasant mutual fellowship and frequent intermingling, common in a small town of the day. The other explanation is that horse races were held often. Since they began at that end of town, this was the "Enter Course," and this name eventually became Intercourse. The post office had no problem with the name because the word mean a commercial or trading site.
The infamous Three Mile Island is not far from our campground.
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