The little towns of Fairfield, Sleepy Hollow, and Beaver Creek aren’t here anymore.
Neither are Amos and Anna, the endearing, larger-than-life fiberglass Amish couple who were perched outside and once welcomed visitors to Roadside America, home to an expansive and painstakingly detailed America in miniature that for 85 years delighted everyone who walked through its doors.
No one is walking through those doors anymore. Somehow I had missed the news last November that the 8,000-square-foot Upper Bern Township icon, which had delighted me both as a child and a parent, had become a victim of the Pennsylvania state government’s lockdown during last year’s pandemic.
It was a gut punch to drive over Blue Mountain and onto old U.S. Route 22, expecting to stop in again for a healthy dose of nostalgia, only to find that the “World’s Largest Miniature Village” was gone.
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