Saturday, July 11, 2009

Chocolate!



Yesterday we visited Hershey, Pennsylvania, home of Hershey's Chocolate Company. I was disappointed to learn tours of the actual factory are no longer available to the general public. Instead you go through a sort of "faux factory" with simulations and video of the various processes involved in creating Hershey bars, Reeses, and Kisses. It was interesting, but not the same as seeing the real thing.




We did enjoy the trolley tour through town where the guides told us much about the life of Milton Hershey. He was a man to be admired, investing much of his personal fortune to keep the town prospering during the great depression as well as founding a school for orphans that still operates today to benefit underpriveleged children.

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