Jennifer Hetrick

Jennifer Hetrick

Jennifer Hetrick is a freelance writer and editor as well as the author of a three-year poetry project through the memories of seniors in her region—"the labors of our fingertips: poems from manufacturing history in berks county." She is also an avid appreciator of the Schuylkill River's history and the habitats within it and along it for local wildlife.

Pear Cider as a Toddy

Many of us know about apple cider in autumn. But pear has its own cider, too, at Weaver’s Orchard. Batches of this pear cider first joined the market’s lineup in 2002. As interest with old-fashioned, mainstay and healthy foods is…