Heritage Days at Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum: it sounds like great fun. There should be food venders and craft booths and maybe live entertainment. Let’s go. Well, actually it was free entry into the museum day. That’s it! No venders or special events. We are a bit bummed but we worked our way through the museum and it is just chocked full of regional memorabilia with focus on coal and railroads but including things back to early settlement days. To top it all off, we are going to be famous. The docent tracked us down, “we have never had anyone from as far as Texas at our museum” come over here so I can take your picture. We are going to be in the Robertsdale Paper.
Next stop, the Rockhill Trolley Museum Festival of Trolleys. Hmm, seems we are on a roll with our festivals. Nothing very festival-like happening here either. We pass on the chance to ride one of what looks like 5 unique restored trolley cars. The chair of the Historical Society is here trying to sell memberships and commemorative cast ornaments. It was a short stop.
We wind our way back toward home through rolling valleys and rural towns. In Mill Creek we find Tops Diner for some local cooking. Among us we try fish tacos, Old Bay seasoned homemade chips, chicken fried steak and a porkchop. Everyone is happy with their choice.