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Lancaster County: Booming tourism. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's. @McTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsOfHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Lancaster County: Booming tourism. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's. @McTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsOfHistoryDebatingSociety
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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.4

Here's John Batchelor.

0:10.1

To Lancaster County, the best county in the Keystone State.

0:13.5

To shady maple in Lancaster County with Jim McTay,

0:16.6

former Washington editor of Barron's Magazine,

0:19.4

now a novelist studying Lancaster County as a bellwether for the American economy.

0:25.3

Jim, the concern we've had for several weeks because of all that rain you had in June, even in July,

0:31.5

was that the tourists were not present. They turned away.

0:35.1

Now the question is, Shady Maple.

0:38.6

Does it have a few diners or many diners?

0:41.8

What is Shady Maple?

0:42.9

Good evening to you, Jim.

0:44.0

Good evening, John.

0:45.2

Shady Maple is the world's largest schmorgishborg.

0:48.6

It serves three to four thousand people a week generally.

0:54.1

It was hacked when I went up on Wednesday, packed with tourists,

1:00.4

packed with busloads of tourists.

1:04.3

And, you know, you go in, the breakfast is approximately $15 plus a 12% gratuity, all you can eat, and they have amazing food,

1:15.3

meats and pastries, whatever you want, you can gorge yourself. They have lunch and dinner,

1:23.3

and on your birthday, you get a free breakfast. So I was interviewing people saying, are you a local or are you a tourist?

1:30.6

Most of the people were tourists, even ran into a guy from Delaware who comes to Shady Maple

1:37.0

every year on his birthday to get his free breakfast.

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