The Berger Family Album

Pennsylvania

Amish Country

Jo wrote:

Brrrr!!!!! We woke up this morning to a blanket of frost covering the autumnal fields...leaves are swirling along the pavement pelting our windshield...houses and farms are sporting pumpkins, ghosts, scarecrows and mum bouquets...our water line was frozen this morning...the rolling farmlands are punctuated by the white silos and barns of the Amish homesteads...the Pennsylvania Dutch Country is as beautiful as they say. The contrast between these immaculate fields that blanket the loping hills and the frenzy of New York City is what makes travel so stimulating.

Bird-In-Hand Market

Jo wrote:

We went to the weekly market at Ephrata where we got a good sampling of Pennsylvania Dutch produce...the boys stuffed themselves on apple turnovers, we had fresh carmel corn, bought unusual Hickory/Apple smoked salami, and delighted in the colorful displays of fresh vegetables hawked by Amish and Mennonite families. I'd love to get my hands on a copy of Witness with Harrison Ford... I'll look for it as we travel along.

Trick Or Treat At The Red Run Campground

Benjamin Franklin

Nate wrote:

William Penn's father was an Admiral in the King's Navy. The King owed him money for a service that he performed. Before his father could collect he died. His son, William, inherited the money that was owed. The King offered Penn land in the New World as payment for the debt. Penn had been jailed for being a Quaker and the King was glad to be rid of him.

Penn had a vision that he would go to Penn Woods and set up a colony where all the different could be practiced in the same city. He insisted that main buildings be built out of stone so the fire would not spread. He named it White Cove and then he changed the name to Philadelphia...the city of Brotherly Love.Over a thousand Quakers followed him and Philadelphia became the largest city in the New World.