July 9, 2023
Milkhouse Creamery, Drums, Pennsylvania
We arrived at this Milkhouse creamery (“selfmade ice cream and high quality dairy merchandise”) farm retailer on a wet day in July. Inside we discovered lovely ice cream desserts, plain and flavored milks (similar to orange) in glass bottles, snacks, drinks and loads of seating at tables.
On the ice cream counter, there have been flavors accessible on daily basis, and particular flavors supplied for a restricted time. Fortunately all flavors may very well be made into milkshakes.. There have been loads of sundae decisions, so I ordered a PB explosion sundae with Hoof Prints Ice Cream. The ice cream was creamy and there have been loads of toppings on high – yummy.
Outdoors, Milkhouse had lots so inventive seating similar to particular person chair swings. We sat below an awning within the rain watching lightning and listening to thunder throughout us, and loved our sundaes.
Within the space: We stopped right here on the best way dwelling from an extended journey throughout Pennsylvania. We stopped at two units of historic buildings that may very well be thought of “failures” every in their very own approach.
Concrete Metropolis, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania – in 1911, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad constructed new housing for its staff made solely of concrete, It was an honor for a given worker to be supplied housing within the luxurious duplex items constructed round a court docket yard with a swimming pool and ball fields. Whereas it appeared an excellent concept to construct tremendous sturdy homes from concrete, the experiment was brief lived because of the chilly, drafty and moist indoor environments – the houses had been subsequently deserted and sat idle for a few years, Finally an try was made to destroy the houses, however after 100 sticks of dynamite didn’t trigger any vital injury, they had been left standing for folk like us to discover., We walked across the very moist and overgrown property and explored the within the 2 story homes with basements. I didn’t discover the swimming pool, however I did discover a completely superior and engaging place to discover.
Deserted Alvira Bunkers, State Recreation Lands, Union County, Pennsylvania
Throughout World Conflict II the USA authorities did practically all the things of their energy to defeat the enemies. Considering they wanted area for storage of explosives, they seized a plot of land in Alvira, Pennsylvania and constructed quite a few bunkers to retailer explosives. These igloo-shaped bunkers had been constructed into into hillsides or lined with floor with heavy metallic doorways and ceilings designed as weak factors to permit any unintended explosions to go upward. many of those bunkers had been both not used or used for less than a short while. Now the bunkers, that are on the state recreation lands are free for anybody to stroll via. The primary couple of bunkers we discovered had been closely graffitied and used as storage or hang around locations. Nevertheless, It didn’t take too lengthy for us to search out one which was practically unadulterated and straightforward to enter. The empty area felt huge and echoed – very cool. Whereas there have been many, many extra within the space, we didn’t search any additional, however my guess there are various extra attention-grabbing issues to find right here,.
