Darci and Amanda also host farm dinners at their beautiful rural oasis. The women at Summer Smile Farm (11) conduct workshops on bread and pizza making with directions for both their wood-fired oven and your home oven. Take in a matinee or an evening performance and enjoy a relaxed meal at the adjacent Green Gables restaurant.Ģ03 S Somerset Street, Stoystown, PA 15563Īfter the performance, it’s time for drinking your grains again at Old Towne Distillery (10), where the beverages are distilled in the basement of an old historic secret society, creepy and cool.ĩ39 Horner Church Road, Stoystown, PA 15905Īfter theater and cocktails, the next day brings the opportunity to get your hands dirty (or doughy). It is in a beautiful, restored 1805 grist mill. The Mountain Playhouse (9) in Jennerstown is Pennsylvania's oldest stock theater and one of only twelve stock theaters left in the country. The docent-led tour explains the roots of words such as Toasting and “upper crust.”ħ690 Somerset Pike, Jennerstown, PA 15547 Learn how they baked bread in the outdoor beehive oven from the 1700s and made pies in the summer kitchen. The next day, a tour of the Compass Inn (8), an old stagecoach stop, will enlighten all about days along a dirt road now called Route 30. The same cinnamon roll recipe is used today as when original owner Melvin Columbus began making them using rations on his Navy battleship during WWII.īefore retiring for the night at a cabin (one modern or nine rustic) in Linn Run State Park (7), hike down to see the lovely Adams Falls, or try out their fantastic trout stream for your evening entrée.ġ386 Lincoln Highway, Laughlintown, PA 15655 Then, make a quick stop at The Original Pie Shoppe (6) for a giant chocolate gob (whoopie pie to some) and a cinnamon roll. Time it right on Fridays, and WildFire Bread (5) on Route 711 will be open to purchase the best loaf of naturally leavened sourdough and some house-made granola. The Lincoln Highway Corridor Museum (4) in Ligonier offers insight into the birth of touring by car and the history of the Lincoln Highway, and admission gets you a slice of pie and a cup of coffee in a restored diner. The bucolic setting near the Winnie Palmer (as in Arnold’s wife) Nature Preserve is ready for a walk through the natural habitat after your shopping.ĭriving down Route 30, remember that the Lincoln Highway (dedicated in 1913) is the first transcontinental road for cars in the country, traversing over 3,000 miles from NYC to San Francisco. Built in 1854 by the monks at the monastery, this grist mill has a small museum and grains and loaves of bread for sale. Swing over to Latrobe for a visit to the Saint Vincent Gristmill (3). A leisurely walk through the nineteen buildings here will take you back to a time when rye was king in Western Pennsylvania.ģ00 Fraser Purchase Road, Latrobe, PA 15650 Although his adult years were spent in coke, coal, and steel, his grandfather’s farm was the birthplace of Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey. The coffee shop, owned by the same family who owned the mill, still sells its famous buckwheat pancake mix and other locally made goodies.Ī short distance away is West Overton Village (2), the land where industrialist Henry Clay Frick spent his childhood. To get ready for the trip, swing into Stanton Daily Grind (1) for a cup of joe and peruse the artifacts and images from when the location was a rolling flour mill. The Laurel Highlands trail cluster goes deep into the Laurel Mountains-part of the Appalachian chain.
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