We took a “simulated factory ride” at Taste of Hershey. Not a Disney-quality ride, and not a factory tour. Maybe if we’d brought kids along with us it would have been more fun, but I kind of doubt it – I think Chris had higher standards, even 20 years ago. Gettysburg, on the other hand, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pennsylvania’
Passing through Hershey to Gettysburg
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dobbin House Tavern, Eisenhower National Historic Site, Fall 2010 trip, Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ephrata Cloister and a Packer game
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ephrata Cloister, Fall 2010 trip, Pennsylvania on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Sunday, and we’re here at Ephrata Cloister, to learn about this 18th century religious community – while, religiously, coming back to the Navion to catch the score/watch the Packer game. We missed Mass today, so our worship has obviously taken a different form. I listen to what life was like for the [...]
Valley Forge, PA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Revolution, Fall 2010 trip, Pennsylvania, Valley Forge on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Almost every historical site we visit challenges something I thought I knew. Mention Valley Forge, and I envision starving and freezing men in Washington’s army, dying in tattered rags during their winter encampment here. Not so much. Disease killed more men than cold or starvation. And two-thirds of the men who died, did [...]
