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Living in Pennsylvania
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Shop for antiques and craft work, familiarizely quilts, wooden
toys and other handiwork of the Amish. Visitors can found their
"hex" signs, once used for warding off bad spirits and now used
for decoration, to be fascinating. In the small town of
Intercourse, you'll find the Kitchen Kettle Village, which has
30 "country shopkeepers" selling all manner of handmade items,
from homemade jellies to dolls to decoys. In the antique stores,
you'll find pieces from the colonial era as well as a large
number of antiques shipped from Europe, notably England. We saw
some outstanding furniture. Renninger's antique flea market in
Kutztown will appeal to treasure hunters. It takes place the
last Thursday, Friday and Saturday in April, June and September
and draws more than 1,200 dealers from some 40 states. Every
Sunday, Adamstown fills with more than 1,500 antique dealers and
thousands of shoppers. Specialty books about Colonial America
and the Civil War can be found in many locations-the museum shop
at Gettysburg's visitors center has an outstanding Civil War
collection. Don't miss the Franklin Mills in Philadelphia which
is said to be one of the world's biggest outlet shopping malls.
At Gettysburg, the must-see place is Civil War memorabilia-from
authentic bullets from the battlefields to reproductions of
uniforms. More than 300 factory outlets in Reading and Lancaster
offer name-brand clothing and furnishings at reduced prices.
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