ANNOUNCER: And now, Get Out of Town, a WETA original series.

LAUREN: We're on the road again.

LAURITA: Yes we are.

LAUREN: So come along.

LAURITA: Look what we have!

LAUREN: Oh yeah!

(gunshot).

LAURITA: Isn't this room beautiful!

(cheering).

LAURITA: I made it!

TRAINER: Thank you.

LAURITA: Oh!

That was so cool!

LAUREN: Oh my goodness!

Crank it, crank it, crank it.

LAURITA: It's never a competition, is it.

LAUREN: Look at that.

(cheering).

LAURITA: What's next?

Hi, I'm Laurita.

LAUREN: And I'm her daughter, Lauren.

LAURITA: We're from the DMV, and we love to travel.

LAUREN: We definitely do.

LAURITA: One of the best things about living in the DC area are the many places you can visit that are just a few hours away.

LAUREN: So many options, and now we get to check them out together.

LAURITA: So join us for a weekend of some very cool places to stay... LAUREN: Great food.

LAURITA: And nonstop fun as we...

BOTH: Get Out of Town!

LAUREN: We're on the road again.

LAURITA: Yes we are.

LAUREN: I'm excited to be heading to Lancaster.

This area is known as like the Amish Country.

But it's also like Pennsylvania Dutch, and I'm just like really confused what's the difference, you know the difference?

LAURITA: I don't know the differences, but we're going to an Amish farm and a museum this weekend, and that'll help us better understand it all.

LAUREN: I'm really excited to see the farms, because those are just like, really beautiful landscapes to me.

LAURITA: We'll be hands-on this trip, which is always a cool thing.

LAUREN: We're gonna be eating at Miller's Smorgasbord, and they have like, this huge buffet, and I'm really excited, I think they're gonna have a lot of like, good Dutch food there.

LAURITA: Oh yeah.

♪ Never leave ♪ ♪ 'Cause I believe I'm in love ♪ ♪ Sweet love ♪ ♪ Hear me callin' out your name ♪ ♪ I feel no shame ♪ ♪ I'm in love, sweet love ♪ ♪ Don't you ever go away ♪ ♪ It'll always be this way ♪ LAURITA: But wow, look at the buggy!

LAUREN: It's so cute.

Here, let me get a picture of the horse and buggy.

LAURITA: There's another one.

LAUREN: Oh, there's another one!

Click!

Got it.

(camera shutter) Okay, we have made it to Lancaster!

(cheering) JOEL: Lancaster county is in South Central PA, and it dates from the early 1700s and then a number of small towns usually from a farming aspect grew up over the years, but today's Lancaster County is not your grandparents' Lancaster County anymore there's a lot happening here, we obviously have our Amish neighbors and culture which we will always treasure and share with people, but also we got family attractions like Dutch Wonderland Family Amusement Park, the outlets, Tanger, Rockvale, as well as some of the boutique shopping.

And of course the foodie scene has really grown and diversified, but you're still gonna find great Pennsylvania Dutch dining.

LAUREN: We are currently heading to Miller's Smorgasbord.

LAURITA: I love that word, smorgasbord.

LAUREN: I know, I feel like with a name called 'smorgasbord' the food is going to be amazing, I'm super excited.

LAURITA: And a lot of it, that's what a smorgasbord is all about.

LAUREN: Mm-hm.

LAURITA: Well, I can't wait to eat.

LAUREN: I know, welcome!

LAURITA: That always makes me hungry.

Oh, this is cute.

LAUREN: I like it.

SERVER: Hi ladies, welcome to Miller's.

This way, please.

LAURITA: Thank you!

SERVER: Two today?

LAURITA: Yes.

Two hungry people today.

SERVER: Very good, this way.

We'll solve that.

TABETHA: Miler's Smorgasbord opened in 1929 with Anna and Enos Miller who had a Texaco station where Enos worked on rigs so it was a good spot for the rigs to stop when they were traveling and eventually, Anna Miller started making chicken and waffles for those that were waiting for their rigs to be fixed.

We have continued that legacy and it ended up being a Smorgasbord, and the most famous dish is Anna's chicken and waffles.

LAURITA: Oh, you said you wanted some soups.

LAUREN: Soups!

Do they have clam chowder?

They do!

TABETHA: Miller's Smorgasbord was the first smorgasbord, and the first breakfast smorgasbord of Lancaster County smorgasbord to me is just a fancy word for buffet.

LAUREN: So I heard that these red beet eggs is like a... specialty of Lancaster County.

LAURITA: Well, I'll have to try one.

Okay we've seen it all, are you ready?

LAUREN: I think I have my entire plate picked out in this head already, let's go for it.

LAURITA: Let's do it, I'm going to start over here though.

TABETHA: So most of it is Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine is a lot of carbs.

PAT: A lot of carbs.

TABETHA: It's a lot of carbs.

PAT: Like, like bowtie noodles gets brown butter on it, you know, and we have baked cabbage and... TABETHA: Macaroni and cheese.

PAT: Macaroni and cheese.

TABETHA: And, about 82% is made from scratch so we make it right from our kitchen.

LAUREN: We know chicken and waffles as waffles and fried chicken but up here they do like a creamy chicken and gravy LAURITA: Yeah that's why I want to try.

LAUREN: It looks good.

LAURITA: Cause it's different.

LAUREN: Mm-hm.

LAURITA: We've got to say that we tried it.

Oh and, there's a carving station.

Mm, girl.

LAUREN: They have roast beef over here, that's what I would like.

LAURITA: Okay.

LAUREN: Hello!

How are you?

SERVER: Roast beef?

LAUREN: I would love some roast beef.

SERVER: There you go.

LAUREN: Where to start, where to begin?

LAURITA: I think let's start with this chicken and waffles, because that was a cool story that we read.

LAUREN: I feel like my eyes are a little bit bigger than my stomach right now, LAURITA: Ha-ha, we got a lot of food.

LAUREN: Just a little bit.

But that's what you have to do when you come to a buffet.

LAURITA: I know.

LAUREN: Get your money's worth.

LAURITA: All right, I'm gonna dig in.

LAUREN: The chicken is like the chicken that's in a pot pie.

LAURITA: The sauce is so creamy and delicious.

LAUREN: The sauce is so good.

LAURITA: But you know, the waffle has a little bit of sweet, but not too much, so it's like a perfect combination.

I mean this is just great Pennsylvania Dutch eating.

LAUREN: And I heard this creamed cabbage is like a staple of Lancaster County, so, we're really eating, like the... LAURITA: Like the locals would.

LAUREN: Thank you.

TABETHA: During our peak season, which really is from March until December, we only have a couple of months where it's down time, but we can get up to 23 coaches a day but we also bring in transients.

On a busy Saturday we could bring in 1700 people we seat 379 at Miller's and we turn those tables over six or seven times a day.

PAT: I have been here for 45 years, not giving out my age, or anything like that, and uh, I just enjoy it here, I enjoy the clientele that comes in, we call them our guests instead of customers.

The food is good, the service is good, they come back time and time again, and of course we are known for the shoofly pie too.

LAURITA: I've heard of shoofly pie only in a song.

LAUREN: I love that it's so warm, I love warm pie.

LAURITA: It's sweet cuz of the crumble on top, LAUREN: The local said that all their food is carb high and sugar high.

I can't wait till we get to our lodging.

LAUREN: Where are we going, mom?

LAURITA: We're going to the Amish View Inn.

LAUREN: Mmm.

LAURITA: Alright.

LAUREN: Gonna have some great views.

LAURITA: Oh yeah.

Thus...

BOTH: The Amish View Inn!

All right, last bite and I'm done.

♪ ♪ WOMAN: Hi welcome!

Welcome to the Amish View Inn and Suites.

You must be Lauren and Laurita.

LAURITA: We are.

WOMAN: Yes, I have the room keys here for you, enjoy your stay.

LAURITA: Thank you so much.

KATIE: So we are in the eastern half of Lancaster County, um, predominantly right in the heart of the Amish community.

So the hotel sits right in the center, hence with the Amish View, the namesake.

We are surrounded by the view of the fields, and the Amish farms.

We have Amish neighbors who are right beside us, with a small business, so English and Amish, we all live intermingled, and so everyone frequents each other's businesses.

The hotel first opened it's doors to guests in 2003.

We have a variety of rooms and they begin with our double queen rooms, and then we also have one and two bedroom suites.

We added 40 rooms in 2014, and they opened as adult only, so if there are couples, or the grandparents who wanna stay, they can have a little quieter place.

So, everyone together can use the pool, they can enjoy the hot breakfast buffet in the morning, that's a fantastic amenity cause we have made to order eggs, omelets, waffles, and that's included with the stay.

We're a short, weekend trip away, a lot of our guests are looking for that.

LAUREN: This is beautiful.

LAURITA: This is charming.

LAUREN: Look at that view, it is spectacular.

LAURITA: Wow.

And look, there's a hot air balloon.

LAUREN: I see!

LAURITA: You know, they say that the metaphor of a hot air balloon is that it means that your life is rising.

So, just think your life now, we both saw it, so your life... LAUREN: I'm on the up.

LAURITA: On the up and up.

LAUREN: I love that, what a great metaphor.

(high five) LAURITA: Yes.

LAUREN: Okay, well I wanna head out soon, because I heard there's a buggy.

LAURITA: Okay.

LAUREN: And I definitely want to go see those horses.

LAURITA: You do that, Dr. Do-a-lot.

LAUREN: I will.

MAN: You can get in like you're gonna drive.

LAUREN: Okay.

This is so cool.

MAN: There's a handle there.

LAUREN: Okay.

I see it, okay.

Oh, this is cool.

I'm currently in a buggy there's a horse right there, do you see how pretty this blanket is?

This is beautiful.

Wow.

(camera shutter) (nickers) ♪ ♪ LAURITA: What are you looking forward to today?

LAUREN: I'm so excited because we get to see some animals at Old Windmill Farm, LAURITA: Just seeing a working farm is always fascinating to me I think we should eat and get ready to get out of here.

LAUREN: Let's do it.

Route 772 is the prettiest drive in Lancaster County, takes you northward in a big scoping arc, through the Amish farmlands, you'll see some covered bridges, so you get all sorts of great views, great experiences.

You'll see plenty of, you know, Amish buggies along with it, and also there's a number of Amish-run businesses whether it's the countryside Road Stand or different furniture manufacturers that the Amish themselves run as businesses, a lot of people when they say Pennsylvania Dutch they mean Amish, but that's incorrect.

Pennsylvania Dutch means Pennsylvania Deutsch, Pennsylvania German, that's a large part of our heritage here.

And the Amish are slice of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

The two don't mean the same.

♪ ♪ JESSE: We're sitting on the porch of my farmhouse, my grandparents lived here, my parents lived here, and now we live here with the family.

My grandfather he was a tobacco farmer, they had maybe 300 chickens, 34, 33 cows.

The milk was more profitable than it is now.

And so lots of farmers, they're finding something else to do besides dairy farming.

LAUREN: We've made it to Old Windmill Farm!

I'm so excited, as soon as we walked up I heard all the sheeps baaing.

We're going to have lots of conversation, I got to work on my, ahem, baa.

Baa.

You know the difference between a goat and a sheep?

A sheep says "baa" and a goat says "meh".

So, baa, and meh.

JESSE: We're making cider.

So we're cutting up the apples, to put through this machine here, then we'll put it through the press.

And we'll have the cider.

Like this.

LAURITA: Okay.

LAUREN: The way that he does that with ease, I want to make sure you do that same thing.

Alright, okay, okay!

LAURITA: Come on, you see it.

LAUREN: Alright!

LAURITA: Not that it's a competition, but it is, right Lauren?

LAUREN: This is satisfying.

That good crunch in there.

JESSE: This is called a cider press.

LAURITA: This is tough.

JESSE: As you push down the apples, all your juice is comin' out now.

Next, the butter.

It'll take about 20 minutes, okay, take about 20 minutes to make butter.

LAUREN: Okay.

Crank it, crank it, crank it.

LAURITA: It's never a competition, is it.

LAUREN: My butter comes fresh from the cows in my backyard, I churn it every morning, you know, it's the sweetest, best, freshest butter I've ever had.

LAURITA: I don't know what backyard she's from.

JESSE: Let us bow our heads and pray.

Dear father God we come to you this afternoon with this meal, we ask you to bless the meal, amen.

ALL: Amen.

JESSE: Alright, so, enjoy.

BOTH: Thank you!

LAURITA: This is really good.

LAUREN: This really does feel like a labor of love.

LAURITA: Can't remember the last time I took a hayride.

LAUREN: We're sitting on a hayride right now.

We're about to go take off with the horses.

This has been such a beautiful farm, everybody has been so nice and welcoming.

Let me tell you that bread and that butter and that jam.

LAURITA: And that cider.

LAUREN: All delicious.

Churning that butter was a workout.

But it was so satisfying to me.

LAURITA: But it also made you feel like you could do that yourself.

LAUREN: Mm-hm.

You're going to take off on this hayride.

LAURITA: Takeover the driving.

You might fail this driving test, but keep going girl.

LAUREN: I wouldn't fail it.

Hiyah!

(camera shutter) Somebody revoke her license!

(laughing) JESSE: If you work with animals, makes your heart soft.

It's not just about money, it's not about possessions, it's about relationship with a higher being.

LAUREN: Do you see that barn up ahead?

LAURITA: I sure do.

LAUREN: That's where we're going to see baby animals!

They're so soft.

LAURITA: I've never held a little bunny this small.

Where you going?

LAUREN: This one is sleepy.

Aww.

(camera shutter) LAURITA: Aw, the little feet, the little feet!

He looks like he wants some.

LAUREN: Look at you, alright!

Talk about a stallion!

LAURITA: Awww.

Aww.

We know who's the boss here.

Look what we, look what we have.

LAUREN: Listen to it!

(cheeping) This is me and my new friend.

LAURITA: Wow.

LAUREN: I feel like, okay, I thought I had it down.

(moo) LAURITA: Cheers.

LAUREN: Wow.

LAURITA: It's really delicious though, nice and warm.

LAUREN: It's so fresh, duh, it came straight out of the cow.

LAURITA: Here we go!

Woo!

Good job!

I wanna high-five you but I don't think you can get it.

This was awesome!

LAUREN: I know, I love this.

LAURITA: And this was a great day at the farm.

LAUREN: It was!

♪ ♪ So pretty.

LAURITA: This is pretty.

I love the fall, gourds and pumpkins!

Oh that's exquisite.

MAN: Good evening, welcome to the Eden Resort.

LAURITA: Thank you.

MAN: We've been expecting you, you're going to be up on the third floor in one of our two-bedroom premier suites.

BOTH: Thank you.

MAN: You're welcome, enjoy.

LAUREN: Thanks.

STEPHEN: The Eden Resort and Suites, sits on 13 acres.

And it is located directly off of 222, Route 30, and Route 283, they all kind of converge in this area, and it makes it really easy for guests to get here and get around the area.

When the hotel first opened in 1972, this was a farm here.

The property's completely been changed over the last 51 years.

Today, it's 300 guest rooms.

Half of which are suites, 48 of which are those villas that are outside.

As part of the suites concept, there's indoor suites, and most of those are two-room suites, they are connected to the main building.

LAUREN: This is like a house!

LAURITA: This is like a house I want to live in.

LAUREN: Wow!

LAURITA: First of all I'm totally drawn to this kitchen!

What!

LAUREN: We're going to have to bring Theo back so he can cook something for us.

LAURITA: I know, I know.

LAUREN: I forgot we ordered the cheese plate and champagne.

Gonna have to pop that later.

LAURITA: Because it's your birthday coming up, I will let you pick which room you'd like to stay in this time.

LAUREN: Okay.

This is nice.

King size bed fit for a queen.

Oh, and the bathroom is nice, too.

I like the shower.

Ooh it's pretty big!

Okay, let me go look at the other one.

Okay, this one's nice too, it has two beds in here.

Let's see, okay, I'm gonna choose the king size, because you know I am the birthday queen!

LAURITA: Okay!

LAUREN: So, you can have this room, and I will have that one.

Alright, should we pop some champs?

Cheers!

LAURITA: Cheers honey, love you.

LAUREN: Love you too.

LAURITA: Okay.

You know what, why don't we go explore?

This is a big place, and there's so many things to do.

LAUREN: Let's do it.

LAURITA: Okay.

STEPHEN: The tone of the hotel is intentionally designed to be calming, and what we like to say is casual elegance.

We understand that we're more a hotel with resort amenities.

So our indoor pool has a glass dome that fully retracts, so you can have an indoor/outdoor feeling in there.

There's multiple pools outside, a splash park, a putting green, outdoor billiards, shuffleboard, a beautiful kids playground.

So there's a little bit of something for everybody.

LAUREN: We're sitting outside, at Eden Resort right now, sitting in front of the little fire pit.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ DAVID: We're at the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, The museum is 100 acres, 30 buildings, and within those buildings are exhibits.

The museum represents 300 years of Pennsylvania German, uh, history and culture here in Lancaster County and the surrounding area.

Here on the grounds we actually have an early example of a multi-generational Pennsylvania German farm.

LAURITA: It's so cool that the Landis Museum let us dress up like the Germans did back in the day it feels like we stepped back in time.

LAUREN: Be prepared to see us in some sack dresses, here we go.

♪ ♪ (laughing) We have now transformed into the Pennsylvania Germans.

LAURITA: Yes.

LAUREN: We're in their dress, as they would have worn back in the day.

Head wrap, long sack dress, and an apron.

DAVID: The museum sits in a wide, very low valley that has a long association with the Landises.

The buildings were built by different generations of the Landis family.

The last generation of the Landises create and build the museum that we are today.

The Landises had a love of their Mennonite past, and the love of the larger Pennsylvania German population that shaped this area and shaped their lives.

For many of our visitors the picture they get of Lancaster county is very rural and very much oriented to agriculture, which goes back to the first Amish farmers that came here the land was recognized as rich, and very quickly they established a presence here as farmers.

For the contemporary visitor, they want to connect to the bounty of product that's grown here.

PERFORMER: So we are in the mid-1700s and this tavern is a truck stop tavern, we're only serving two men.

And right now I uh, sautéed some bacon, and I have potatoes in here and some onions and I'm cutting up our squash.

Excellent job.

You're gonna scoop the guts.

LAUREN: Alrighty.

PERFORMER: So while we're doing that, I'm gonna get the soup back on the stove.

Now you are going to rub the sage.

LAUREN: This smells so good.

PERFORMER: It's amazing, isn't it?

LAURITA: And it goes right in the pot?

PERFORMER: Yes ma'am.

Aright, ladies, well thank you so much for coming and working in the tavern today.

LAURITA: Oh it's delicious!

PERFORMER: Thank you very much.

LAURITA: Wow!

So even without having a complete commercial kitchen and all the slices and jars, you can still make a tasty meal.

PERFORMER: Very tasty, yes.

LAUREN: Good soup.

LAURITA: I think what was most interesting at Landis Valley was the cooking in the hearth.

LAUREN: I know, and the food tasted so good even though it's just a few simple ingredients.

LAURITA: Now we're off to Zoetropolis, which is also an arthouse!

JOEL: Lancaster City dates from 1729, so it's one of the oldest inland cities in the United States.

A lot of people don't know that we have a downtown city which is really thriving it's hip yet historic, and that's really come through development over the last 10 to 15 years.

♪ ♪ TODD: So if I were to explain Zoetropolis, it's a stool with three legs.

Primarily the theater first and foremost, which has expanded to offer all kind of programming that supports local organizations, uh, the restaurant sources local ingredients from literally 10 minutes away.

And then finally is The Distillery, We make our own spirits, we also make our own mixers, syrups, bitters, we are ultra-local business, really from soup to nuts.

LAUREN: So we are at Zoetropolis, about to get our last meal before we head on the road, We're gonna show you guys the cinema theater that they have, because this is a restaurant... LAURITA: Yep.

LAUREN: A movie theater... LAURITA: Mm-hm.

LAUREN: And a distillery, so it's like all in one.

LAURITA: And two really good bars.

LAUREN: Yeah.

So we want to show you the cinema.

See all the cool seating options that they have, and see how big it is.

So come along!

(camera shutter) NATE: I would say our signature dish right now is the Detroit style pizza, I mean there's nothing short of heavenly.

LAURITA: Oh, wow, that looks delicious, and you got to tell us about this pizza.

RUSSELL: We make a Detroit-style pizza very much akin to a focaccia bread, and then we fill out a pan, put cheese edge to edge, and then we bake it, and then the white pie gets garnished with our own homemade ricotta, and a pesto, and we blend that with some garlic, some toasted almonds, olive oil, parmesan, and lemon zest.

Enjoy.

BOTH: Thank you!

LAUREN: Alright, cheers to you.

LAURITA: Going in.

Cheers to you.

I think I eat crust side first.

(crunching) Ooh.

LAUREN: Mm-hm.

Absolutely.

The bread is so fluffy, the ricotta is really good.

Ricotta is actually some of my favorite cheese, and this like, it's not too cheesy like some ricottas are.

Mm.

Mm-hm.

LAURITA: You know what?

I'm glad you're driving, because I'm gonna sleep after this.

LAUREN: I know, I'm gonna have the itis so hard.

LAURITA: Well, sorry.

It's all you girl, all you.

So enjoy.

LAUREN: Thank you.

JOEL: Lancaster is a bit of a dichotomy where most people come here because of the Amish community and then when they kind of come downtown they realize there's this huge vibrant art scene, I think it's a big surprise for people, and gets them coming back for a second and third trip, and I think that's one of the most important things, especially the city of Lancaster right now has to offer.

LAUREN: We have been walking around for a little bit, we just ate some food, um... LAURITA: Yes.

LAUREN: We've seen beautiful monuments, beautiful artwork on the walls.

LAURITA: Now that's what I call a full weekend.

LAUREN: I know, but now it's time to start heading home.

You can tell that Lancaster is really just a family-oriented city.

You know, from when we first got here and they were telling us how everybody has been here for generations and people leave and come back because they know that this is their home and they know this is their family town.

LAURITA: And people made us feel like that we were parts of their family, so.

LAUREN: We were, yeah!

LAURITA: We went on a beautiful Amish farm.

There we, you know, we made apple cider from scratch, we had some baked bread, we churned butter, we had some buttermilk, and that was like another simpler side of living.

Which it still goes on today.

LAUREN: Being able to drink fresh cow's milk, that was awesome!

LAURITA: And remember, don't call it, "Landcaster," it's Lancaster to the folks up here.

LAUREN: You got that right.

I definitely need to keep practicing.

♪ I'm in my pretty girl era ♪ ♪ I'ma stare when I see myself in the mirror ♪ ♪ Oh-oh ♪ ♪ 'Tis the season, it's that hottie time of the year ♪ ♪ I don't care, I'm in my pretty girl era ♪ ♪ [Singer] I don't care ♪ ♪ Wake up gorgeous every morning ♪ ♪ I'ma put a ring on it ♪ ♪ 14 karats, horse and carriage ♪ LAURITA: So join us for some non-stop fun...

I knew it!

I knew it!

I knew it!

LAUREN: As we Get Out Of Town!

LAURITA: A weekend, join us for a weekend.

LAUREN: You missed a whole line.

LAURITA: Join us for a weekend.

Just an hour or two away.

(laughter).

LAURITA: Every grandchild got to churn!

LAUREN: Do your best goat impression.

LAURITA: First let me hear yours.

(imitates goat).

LAURITA: Okay.

(imitates goat).

(laughter).

LAURITA: Good job girla.

LAUREN: Okay!

Alright!

(laughter).

LAUREN: And apparently they said that it was haunted here.

(thud).

LAURITA: Okay, that's, that's it.

I'm gone, I'm gone.

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