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BREAKING NEWS: CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON THE TURKEY HILL EXPERIENCE!

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

We’re interrupting our reader-written blog entry schedule to share some exciting news with you here on the Ice Cream Journal. Today, at around 10:30 a.m., Turkey Hill held a special ground breaking event to officially mark the start of construction of a brand new Lancaster County attraction called the Turkey Hill Experience. (That’s an artist’s rendering of the future Turkey Hill Experience above.)

The Turkey Hill Experience is a project several years in the making and we’re all VERY excited about it. It will be based in Columbia, right here in Lancaster County, and will feature 26,000 square feet of interactive exhibits, a café and retail space and will pay homage to Turkey Hill’s history while highlighting its ice cream and iced tea-making processes. Visitors will also learn about Lancaster County’s heritage and farming traditions in the Mid Atlantic region.

One of the cooler features of the Turkey Hill Experience will be an exhibit that allows visitors to experience what it’s like to be a Turkey Hill Dairy ice cream maker for a day, including the opportunity to create his or her very own ice cream flavor!

If all goes according to plan, the Turkey Hill Experience will open its doors to the public in the spring of 2011.

What’s cool about the Turkey Hill Experience is that it will be housed in an historic silk mill that has been renovated after being empty for more than 25 years. As many of you know, preserving the history and culture of Lancaster County is very important to Turkey Hill, which is what makes this new location so fitting for us.

We’ll post more about the history of the silk mill in an upcoming blog entry and we’ll also post construction updates at least once a month here on the Ice Cream Journal. For now, below is a video of the banner being unveiled at today’s big event. Also, if you live in the central Pennsylvania/Lancaster area, be sure to watch your local news tonight because all four local TV networks (WGAL, WHTM, WPMT and WHP) came out to today’s event to capture the story for the evening news!

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WINTER WONDERLAND

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Today is snow day for pretty much everyone in Lancaster County. On Friday, parts of Lancaster County received 26 inches of snow and today, with a blizzard warning in effect, our neck of the woods is getting another 10 to 15 inches of snow. Needless to say, it’s a good day to stay indoors and indulge in your favorite comfort foods (which includes ice cream, of course!).

Below are a few photos taken here in Lancaster County over the past week.

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A downtown Lancaster street. Courtesy of fotoguy58.

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Snow falls around a stream in Lancaster County. Photo courtesy of Alimber.

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Venturing out into the snow. Photo courtesy of Jenn Long.

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Snow piled up at a house in Lancaster County. Photo courtesy of cshontz.

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ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL TURKEY HILL COUNTRY CLASSIC!

Monday, May 11th, 2009

As reported last week, we recently hosted our 10th Annual Turkey Hill Country Classic. It’s a basically a day of family fun here in Lancaster County. There was lots of ice cream, drinks, Hatfield hot dogs, Herr’s chips and, as always, lots of biking and running races.

After some early morning sprinkles, the weather cleared up and allowed us to get on with the festivities. All proceeds benefited the Lancaster Farmland Trust, which works hard to preserve farmland here in Lancaster County. More than 300 runners and 400 cyclists entered the sporting events (a nice shot of the action is below).

If you missed this year’s Classic, save the date for next year’s event, which will be held on May 1st. See you all in 358 days!

Special thanks to photographer Joe Hess for letting us use this great photo here. Feel free to check out more of Joe’s Country Classic photos here.

 

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TASTE OF LANCASTER COUNTY: PA DUTCH COOKING AND JALAPENO JAM

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

This week’s “Taste of Lancaster County” entry is about Pennsylvania Dutch food and our legendary Kitchen Kettle Village. As always, we’ll give away a Lancaster County prize to one commenter chosen at random from this entry. Good luck!

As you’ve seen from some of our other Taste of Lancaster County entries this month, a big part of the county’s heritage is the cooking and food. You’ll love the great tasting Pennsylvania Dutch foods that are widely available in the Lancaster County Region.  Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of German immigrants, who brought over not only a whole new culture, but also some great recipes which became a huge part of the Lancaster County heritage.

The tradition of the Seven Sweets and Seven Sours, a common aspect of Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, is celebrated at many tourist-oriented restaurants and at annual festivals around the area.  During the presence of company or in many large families, seven various picked foods, relishes, and spreads would be laid out along side several Dutch dishes as part of dinner. Foods you could commonly find in the local area includes chicken corn soup, scrapple, chicken pot-pie, chow-chow, and shoofly pie.

Kitchen Kettle Village is a wonderfully charming village of stores located in the heart of Amish Country in Intercourse, PA and it’s the perfect place to hunt for some of these Pennsylvania Dutch delicacies. A great place to take the family, the village has over 40 restaurants and shops to explore. You’ll have a wonderful time shopping, eating, and socializing with people from all walks of life and it is a great place to start on your trip to Lancaster County.

Today’s Taste of Lancaster County prize is a collection of jams from Kitchen Kettle Village’s legendary jam and jelly shop. The shop is known for providing samples of their goods, which include everything from traditional options to more unusual (yet surprisingly good) jams like jalapeno jam and garlic herb jelly. Enjoy!

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ARE YOU READY FOR NATIONAL ICE CREAM MONTH?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

July is only five days away. It’s our favorite month of the year because July is National Ice Cream Month. That’s right, a whole month dedicated to celebrating the greatest culinary invention EVER. It’s so great, that when sliced bread was invented, everyone called it “the best thing since ice cream.”

Last year we celebrated National Ice Cream Month by doing some cool things here on the Ice Cream Journal and 2008 is no exception. This year we’ll spend July getting back in touch with our roots. That means you’ll see lots of entries about the history of Turkey Hill Dairy, but also about the history of ice cream and some glimpses of life here in Lancaster County.

As for the prizes…well, that’s the best part. Each Wednesday in July we’ll write about something in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Those weekly entries will include an authentic Lancaster County prize, which we’ll give away to one comment chosen at random from that entire week.

At the end of the month we’ll give away our grand prize: a package that includes a year’s supply of Turkey Hill ice cream, a one-night stay at a local Lancaster County bed & breakfast AND a personally guided tour of Turkey Hill Dairy by everyone’s favorite ice cream expert, Ernie!

We’re pretty sure it’s the biggest prize we’ve ever given away here on the Ice Cream Journal and we can’t wait for July to begin!

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