Lancaster and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country

You'll learn about the culture, customs and lifestyles of the Amish people, who live, today, in the heart of Lancaster County, just as they did in the 17th century. You'll learn all about these quaint people as you drive past neat Amish homesteads, one-room schoolhouses, whitewashed tree trunks, and fences. You'll learn why the Amish shun the world and continue to preserve the serenity of their style. And while you listen to your tape filling you in on history, you'll see these people walking along roads, driving carts and buggies and working their farms with plows, mules and their own hands. You'll find out why the Amish are called the "Plain People" and you'll find out why they call you "Gay or Fancy". As your Auto Tape Tour guides you through Amish country, you'll find out how to tell a married man from a single one just by his dress. You'll know why the Penn/Dutch call covered bridges "kissing bridges" and what a "Hook and Eye Baptist" is. You'll find out what "seven sweets and seven sours" are and what they taste like. "Shoe fly" pie and picklings and you'll learn about pretzels, too, at the biggest Bavarian pretzel plant in America. And for a change of mood, your Auto Tape Tour takes you back to the excitement of America's rip-roaring railroad days at the State Railroad Museum in Strasburg. Here you'll see one of the biggest collections in America of Iron horses. There’s enough here to excite even the most avid railroad buff-kids and grownups alike. An Auto Tape Tour makes your trip through the Pa. Dutch Country a living memory of our rich, American heritage.