On this episode of Our American Stories Milton Hershey failed again and again before he ever became America's chocolate king After a struggling candy shop in Philadelphia bankruptcy and years spent learning from confectioners around the country Hershey finally found success with caramels Then at the height of that success he took another enormous gamble chocolate Don Papson of the M S Hershey Foundation and Amy Zeigler of The Hershey Story Museum share the story of how Hershey learned to mass-produce affordable milk chocolate built a factory and community around it in Pennsylvania and ultimately gave much of his fortune
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