Lititz Chocolate Walk 2008

Chocolate, Charity and Congeniality in Small Town America

The Wilbur Chocolate Building in Lititz

The heart of America is found in events that bring people together to help others, and the Lititz Chocolate Walk is a unique opportunity to experience the fusion of small town hospitality with the generosity of apparent strangers. 

Since 2001, Lititz has hosted a charity walk that has attracted more than 7,000 chocolate fans to a town largely dominated by its independent chocolate maker, Wilbur Chocolate.  The Lititz Kiwanis club sponsors the event that leads people through the streets of this quaint little town in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country to meet local merchants while casually munching on locally produced chocolate treats.  Proceeds this year will benefit the Schreiber Pediatric Center and the Lititz Public Library in addition to other youth charities.

Lititz has been a favorite town for me to visit for many years.  It has been a long-standing tradition to visit the town on the first day of winter, December 21, to find truly unusual and handcrafted presents for the holidays. 

This year I’ll make an exception to visit on October 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  I’ll take pictures and share my experiences in the future travel and leisure category of the site.