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RoadTrip A Market for the Masses in Pennsylvania
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At Renninger’s Antique and Farmers Market, clear your curio cabinet
for such collectibles as rare Pez dispensers and World War II-era milk bottles.
The Antique Complex of
Fleetwood caters to every
budget, from $395 life-size
sheep to the dollar shed, where
a buck buys an old postcard or
a collectible Coke can.
The Toy Robot Museum in the community
of Stoudtburg Village will transform any
humanoid into a sci-fi fan with its 2,104
robots from the 1950s to the present.
At Fantasy Skating Center, spin your wheelson a wooden rink with a live organist or Top 40tunes as backup. Competitive roller JamesAlzate practices his moves during team practice.
Schell’s 27 Hole Miniature
Golf Course gives you more
than two dozen chances to hit
an eagle. But watch out for
ramps and a windmill.
Driver’s route
Start here
With 375 dealers outdoors and 300 more inside,you could very well drop while shopping at theoriginal Renninger’s Antique Market.
Cover your head with a summer straw orwinter bowler from Bollman Hat FactoryStore, which has toppers for all seasons.
The sun’s hot but the water’s not at Blue FallsGrove Water Park, which has two swimmingpools and a three-flume, 36-foot-tall water slide.
Minivans may have replaced the Conestoga wagons thatonce frequented the Inn at Moselem Springs, but 155years after its construction, the restaurant is still cooking.
Prairie dogs, a giant’s tooth and an ear of corn are justsome of the limestone sights 125 feet below ground inCrystal Cave Park, the state’s oldest operating cave.
Baking pretzels is a family traditionat Tom Sturgis Pretzels, which hasbeen churning out the snacks since1861. Taste the Sturgis recipe witha bag or two from the factory store.
No waxy tomatoeshere: Load up onfresh produce atthe FairgroundsFarmers Market,which draws asmany as 60 vendors.
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WHERE: Berks and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania.
WHY: Market mania, Mr. Roboto and stalagmite vs. stalactite.
HOW FAR: About 40 miles, or one hour by car, from start to finish.
T o market, to market . . . 20,000 shoppers go.The Antiques and Collectors Extravaganza returns to Kutz-
town, Pa., on Thursday for a three-day shopathon that drawsmore than 1,000 dealers and up to 20 times as many buyers.The event, held three times a year, is a supersize version of Sat-
urdays at Renninger’s Antique and Farmers Market, a mall that openedmore than 50 years ago and houses about 250 vendors.
At the extravaganza, about half of the goods on sale date from the CivilWar to the early 1900s, from soldiers’ uniforms to amateur artwork andtaxidermied deer. Other dealers sell mid-20th-century items, such as Bea-tles memorabilia, that will send baby boomers into nostalgic reverie.And, of course, collectors of comic books, vinyl records and neon beersigns will find other aficionados they can geek out with.
Renninger’s originally opened as a farmers market, with Moyer’sFrench Fries and Dietrich’s Meats among the first vendors. Today, thereare more than 50 local food purveyors, including Plain and Fancy Donuts,whose pastries squish with white cream centers; Tom Sturgis Pretzels,which bakes its snacks in the nearby Reading area; and, yes, the french frygals, who cook their taters with the skins on.
The extravaganza’s location in Berks County is fitting. Berks and Lan-caster County, where Amish farms and strip malls coexist, are known fortheir roadside antiques stands and drive-by flea markets. “People in thisarea are used to shopping in markets, not malls or stores,” says BrianBlock, a field manager at Renninger’s Antique Market in Adamstown, asister market about 30 miles southwest. “Markets are centers of com-merce and community.”
— Ben ChapmanAntiques and Collectors Extravaganza: Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 8a.m.-5 p.m. The next extravaganza is Sept. 27-29. Renninger’s Antique and FarmersMarket, 740 Noble St., Kutztown, Pa. $15 Thursday, good for all three days; Friday $6;Saturday $4. 877-385-0104. www.renningers.com.
Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addresses and hours of operation (be
sure to check before you go). Have an idea for a trip? [email protected].
MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; PHOTOS BY BEN CHAPMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
WEDNESDAY IN STYLE Escapes visits Coney Island’s Astroland.
The Sims 2: Pets Nintendo Wii
Rated Teen
Electronic Arts
$49.95
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“By the end of the war, toilet paper
would be called rectal sanitary equip-
ment, and they’d use the acronym RSE
for an extra layer of obfuscation.”
— Stephens refl ects on the byzantine business of military life
The author, himself
embedded with a Marine
unit in 2003, has a pitch-
perfect ear for the musical
crudity of Marine banter.
The South Carolina native
behind the best-selling
memoir “Goat” tries his hand
at fi ction with a spare, elusive
novel about a young drifter’s
coming of age.
After a decade of aesthetic
inconsistency, the band revisits the
hair-trigger punk that infl uenced acts
from Minor Threat to Lil Jon.
“Ya gotta be standin’ fi rm /
And dontcha ever worry about
takin’ your turn”
— “Natty Dreadlocks ’Pon the Mountain Top”
Her voice sounds clearer than ever (thanks,
Claritin!), but her delivery feels stiff over the
album’s looser, livelier tunes, including a cover of
Iggy Pop’s “Success.”— C.R.
A hefty amount of exposition bogs down this
fi rst issue, and it could have been
more tightly paced.— Evan Narcisse
The fi lm’s amoral compass
veers wildly — and stupidly
— between a desire for fl ag-waving justice and
old-fashioned vigilantism.— G.Z.
There are puppies and kittens
everywhere — but where are the
children?— Christopher Healy
Your Sim can take his or her
pet into town and let it romp in
the park with other neighborhood
mutts.
A snowy shootout on a glacier
is tense and striking, and a
lot of things explode beautifully. A making-of
featurette is informative.
Despite the
ludicrous setup, Ricci
and Jackson imbue
their characters with real feeling,
and it’s fun to hear Brewer try to
make sense of his overheated mess
on the commentary track.
Able Monroe and Alistair
McQueen have settled
into prosaic lives, leaving
their dangerous past as special-ops couriers
behind — until a request from a long-dead
president changes everything.
The alt-country queen
went to high school
in Annandale, but
nowadays most folks
will recognize her as the
country singer in those
TV ads for Claritin.
After an ex-Marine
sharpshooter is asked
to help prevent a
presidential assassination,
he’s set up as the fall guy
in a government conspiracy.
Revenge ensues.
The original lineup of the
legendary, incendiary hardcore
band reunites to record some
breakneck tunes with producer,
super-fan and Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.
Build a NationBad Brains
Megaforce
$14.98
Pilgrims Upon the Earth By Brad Land
Random House
$23.95
His expense-account-padded job as a New York
gossip columnist in jeopardy, fi ctional reporter
Jimmy Stephens embeds himself in Iraq in an
effort to curry favor with his
editor.
Last One In By Nicholas Kulish
Harper Perennial
$13.95
Writers Bernardin and Freeman
deftly fuse the tension of high-
stakes political
intrigue with the jazzy
rhythmic patter of a
buddy action movie.
“Sweet, sweet little one / don’t you
berate the sun / It’s only coming up
from being down”
— “Sweet Little One”
Willis performs a handful of slow, torchy tunes
with heartbreaking fi nesse.
“God seen fi t to put you in my
path, and I aim to cure you of
your wickedness.”
— Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson, right) calmly explains the situation to the barely
clad Rae (Christina Ricci)
“This is the world we live in. . . . It’s not
the Wild West where you can clean up the
streets with a gun. Even though some-
times that’s exactly what’s needed.”
— A federal agent gives Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg, left) the
tacit go-ahead to pull the trigger
Many of Land’s intricate
descriptions (the slippery-
smooth feel of a breezeway railing, the angle of a
stubbed-out cigarette) evoke fl eeting
moments with pin-prick precision.
Director Craig Brewer mixes exploitation
with down-home morality
in this tale of an
abused nympho
chained to a radiator
by a caring bluesman.
Choose from an insane
number of dog and cat breeds,
then customize everything about
the critter, from fur markings to
tail and ear size.
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What passage in the Bible
reads “thou shalt chain the
sex addict”? Remember:
Sexual immorality is bad, but
by all means, ogle Ricci in her
underwear.— Greg Zinman
The author homes in on details at the expense
of the larger story, which grows aimless and
hard to follow.— Sara Cardace
Singer H.R.’s spaciness
works on the album’s
reggae-style cuts, but he
sounds lost in the fl urry of
the faster tracks.— Chris Richards
Though Kulish vividly brings the men of
Stephens’s unit to warts-and-all life, the hero
remains something of an underdeveloped cipher.— Reviewed by Adriana Leshko
“He yelled at them, hauled off,
felt sad and talented, knew, from
then on, he’d look for her, and
that was all.”
— The protagonist, Terry, gets suspended from high school
and falls in love in the same instant
“We’re shooting at the
CIA? You really got an
explanation that’ll cover this?”
— Able wants to know the reason for the duo’s bullet-
riddled car-chase reunion
The virtual dollhouse game
returns with the addition of easy
point-and-click Wii controls and,
as the title suggests, animals.
B-
The Highwaymen No. 1 By Marc Bernardin,
Adam Freeman and
Lee Garbett
Wildstorm
$2.99
Black Snake MoanRated R
Paramount
$29.99
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