2008-08-02 01:25:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
It's nice to know that today's depressed economy can't keep down a good art lover — especially if you happen to be a part of Gallery Row in downtown Lancaster."First Fridays are as crowded as ever," Lee Lovett, Red Raven Art Co.'s gallery manager, said. &quo......
2008-08-01 02:19:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
This month, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design will feature an exhibit of World War II posters that reveal how artists were enlisted to keep morale high and production steady on the home front."I think this show will appeal to the students as well as the people in the community ......
2008-07-31 11:24:00
JOSEPH MALDONADO / New Era Correspondent
The Paulson brothers may set an unofficial record for family artists on First Friday. Doug and Tim will be a combined 4,300 miles from downtown Lancaster when their exhibits open. Both brothers are currently traveling for different reasons — Doug in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Tim in......
2008-07-18 01:42:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
There's nothing like getting a good look under the hood, and the exhibit "Our Body: The Universe Within," makes that easy.It ain't all pretty, though.The exhibit features "approximately" 12 human bodies preserved in polymer and another 80 organs and parti......
2008-07-11 02:18:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Joe Knedlhans said he's not worried about a robot uprising — though maybe he should be.As the curator of The Toy Robot Museum in Adamstown, he lives with more than 2,100 types of droids, bots and other mechanized marvels."Nope, I don't worry about the robots takin......
2008-07-04 00:01:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER, Staff
Since 2006, several groups of Elizabethtown Area School District fifth-graders put their creativity to work fashioning their own unique "sitting machines."But just what is a sitting machine?"It is unique," 12-year-old Kathlyn Allison said. "It can be complic......
2008-07-03 02:18:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Yoko Sekino-Bové's ceramic art is fully functional, though some might say the artist's intricate teacups, plates and jars are simply too beautiful to use."My ambition in art is to create something meaningful," Sekino-Bové said. "To remind people that th......
2008-07-03 02:13:00
LAURA FREEMAN, Staff
Fireworks aren't the only sights and sounds in Lancaster this Fourth of July.The sixth annual Freedom Fest will provide a myriad of things to see and hear at Marion Court Room and the surrounding area on Friday.This year's festival boasts a diverse musical lineup thanks to i......
2008-06-28 01:55:00
JOHN WALK, Staff
For 10-year-old Craig McKee, operating robots at the North Museum was more difficult than playing with his toys at home."I like the cranes," Craig said Wednesday while visiting the museum. "I play with LEGOs® at home but the cranes are hard (to operate)."The ......
2008-06-22 00:18:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
When it comes to gross human anatomy, a lot of folks would rather preserve a degree of mystery than witness the unadorned truth of the matter. Medical school has its place, but not everyone wants to peel back the skin to get a firsthand look at the mortal machinery. Yet some would like not......
2008-06-20 02:23:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Got art? If so, it's likely you know every nook and cranny of Gallery Row on Prince Street in downtown Lancaster.But sometimes it pays to wander off the beaten path — in this case to West Chestnut Street, the location of DogStar Books & Gallery.Beginning today, the use......
2008-06-16 19:00:00
LIZ WELCH, 17, Freestyle Staff Writer
It's First Friday in Lancaster city, where can you be found? Gallery Row on North Prince Street, maybe, checking out all the high-end art galleries? Or maybe you're wandering around North Queen Street visiting all the funky hangouts like Zap & Co., Art & Glassworks or, of course, ......
2008-06-16 18:49:00
LIZ WELCH, 17, Freestyle Staff Writer
At BUiLDiNG CHARACTER, 342 N. Queen St., you can find almost anything that has jumped onto the art bandwagon, including art by teens.In May, Tony Nies and Marty Hulse, the owners of BUiLDiNG CHARACTER, opened their doors to the First Friday crowd with a display of teen artwork by McCaskey&......
2008-06-12 13:11:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER, Staff
A penny a post bought an awful lot of Lancaster County history. In their heyday, beginning around 1907, postcards cost about a cent to send. Who would've dreamed then that so many "wish you were here" messages to loved ones would someday become part of a window into the past?...
2008-06-06 06:59:00
LAURA KNOWLES, Correspondent
Now, more than ever, the lines between art and photography have been blurred. The 25th Annual Photographic Visions Exhibition at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design should prove that when the show opens Friday. "Since this is our 25th year, it is the perfect opportunity to sho......
2008-06-06 03:21:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
The Heritage Center Museum's latest exhibit is timely, especially if one finds the various twists and turns of the 2008 presidential election campaign intriguing."Patchwork Politics: From George to George W." is a collection of quilts and other rare memorabilia that commemora......
2008-06-06 03:13:00
KIM O’BRIEN, Staff
Lancaster artist Matt Chambers didn't have to look too far for his inspiration — in fact, he found his muse in the barns and scenic views that he grew up with."In my 20s, I worked for a feed mill. I saw thousands of different farms, probably 50 or 100 of them every week,&quo......
2008-05-29 01:25:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
The age of steam locomotives is just a memory to older Americans, while their children don't recall it at all.But now, visitors to Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg can see the golden years of railroading through the eyes of a well-known railroad artist."Railroad......
2008-05-15 13:30:00
By KATHLEEN DAMINGER, Staff
In life and in death, artist Ted Rose was rather a private man. Although his passion was painting specific landscapes — mainly the industrial landscape of depots, trains and grain elevators, but also the Southwestern desert beauty that he called home — Rose was never pigeon-hole......
2008-05-09 02:58:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Because Jerome Hershey's studio on Queen Street doubles as his personal gallery, the artist has to tidy up for shows.Mostly, this arrangement benefits visitors, who not only get to see where Hershey works but also what amuses him.On one wall is a collection of pencils that have ......
2008-05-04 00:08:00
MARTY CRISP, Staff
Denny Bond is a storyteller. "Paintings should say something," the East Petersburg-based watercolorist said in a recent interview. "Like Andrew Wyeth's work: Every painting tells a story." Bond's story continues to unfold this month in a one-man show at D&J ......
2008-05-02 02:58:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
In the Lancaster art scene, Ann DeLaurentis and Fred Rodger could be considered rock stars.That is to say, they have fans — and lots of them. In fact, their work is so in demand, that before their joint exhibit at the Red Raven Art Company had a chance to kick off with today's Fi......
2008-05-02 01:31:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Dana Herr calls Macajah Lee Brown Jr. a connector."He loves to bring people together — loves to introduce this person to that person in the hope that they can somehow benefit one another," Herr, program director at ASSETS Lancaster, said. "He's good at it, and it g......
2008-05-01 08:07:00
CATHY MOLITORIS / New Era Staff
For Ruth Pham, a senior at McCaskey High School, photography provides an outlet to express herself. "I love that when you have the camera and the lens in front of you, you can show things that you want to reveal about yourself," says the International Baccalaureate student, 18. &qu......
2008-05-01 01:14:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
With the help of photography, a local mental-health organization is hoping to show the public what recovery looks like, as seen through the eyes of its clients.Lancaster County Community Support Program is presenting "Face It … The Journey of Recovery" at Mulberry Art Stud......
2008-04-19 00:31:00
CINDY STAUFFER, Staff
The cuckoo clock ticks as the afternoon light sweeps in on paintings of a fox hunter, a cowboy and a fairy.There is a tea set on an antique table and, across the room, a miniature carousel. There is amber jewelry and London lotion and, upstairs, still more: Santa Clauses, posters of the Do......
2008-04-18 20:45:00
JOHN JASCOLL, Correspondent
"The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" is one of those lines of poetry we all recognize but are not sure where it's from.The verse continues, "Nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.&quo......
2008-04-18 02:57:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Tim Nies has got to be the only artist in Lancaster discussing quantum physics with zeal.So when he comes out with something like this gem: "I'm really fascinated by cement," you kind of wonder if he's one of those stupid geniuses who could find the cure for cancer if he ......
2008-04-18 02:43:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
When Richard Keltner gets burned-out working with a pastel stick in his hand, he doesn't hesitate to pick up a paintbrush or a wood-carving tool to make block prints.The San Francisco artist and part-time Lancaster resident will put his multiple mediums on display for Lancaster's A......
2008-04-17 13:31:00
JANE HOLAHAN, Staff Writer
Through the years, the Strictly Functional Pottery Show has been exhibited at the Southern Market Center, the Artworks at Doneckers and the Lancaster Museum of Art. But maybe its new home is the perfect fit. It's certainly a functional location. This year's Strictly Functio......
2008-04-06 00:06:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
Though not considered an official artistic movement, the golden age of illustration began shortly after the Civil War and ended just before World War II. Flip through popular illustrated magazines and books printed between, say, 1880 and 1930, and you'd be hard-pressed not to notice their c......
2008-04-04 08:18:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Arguably, they are the world's most recognized Wild Things.Maurice Sendak's famous monsters are out from under the bed and into Lancaster Museum of Art for what promises to be the most crowd-pleasing exhibit since last year's LEGO® extravaganza, which drew record crowds....
2008-04-04 08:17:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Never mind the pounding the Euro is giving the American dollar.Thankfully, France has come to us.Parisian photographer Jérôme Gorin's "April in Paris," just mounted at Gallery dePaul, is not only what we expect of France, but a whole lot more.From t......
2008-04-04 08:16:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Artist Ron Ettelman says his art springs from experimentation and progresses in stages.So maybe it's fitting that he's exhibiting at Frank Fico's hair salon at 213 W. Orange St., a place where a desire for change often drives another kind of art.Ettelman's offerings ......
2008-03-30 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER, Correspondent
Artist Wil Lindsay sees a crisis in the steady and sure loss of tangible, historical artifacts. "As people switch from writing letters to writing e-mails, as they stop taking pictures using a camera and film and start taking all their images of vacations and birthday parties using digital ......
2008-03-30 00:02:00
CRIS FOEHLINGER, Staff
Grab your scissors and a piece of paper, because the Guild of American Papercutters is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Established in Hershey in 1988 with less than two dozen members, the guild is now a registered Pennsylvania nonprofit with about 400 members worldwide. Some of those mem......
2008-03-28 01:37:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Lancaster's popular First Fridays have now morphed into the more intimate Artists' Saturday.The event is billed as a chance for art lovers to get a more personal experience with artists than offered on First Fridays."On First Fridays, artists don't always have the c......
2008-03-28 01:32:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
When Scott Sweigert goes to work these days, he feels like he's being watched.That's because of all the self-portraits on display inside the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College."Some of the eyes in the portraits follow you," the gallery director......
2008-03-14 02:20:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Not all attics are created equal.While most us of us would consider ourselves lucky to find a Holly Hobbie oven in our dusty piles of keepsakes, people like Isadore Lichstein kept a vast collection of print art that grew in value over the years.The collection was left to his family ......
2008-03-10 00:50:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
This weekend, Lancaster Museum of Art's Scholastic Art Awards exhibit provided — as it does every year — a rich array of sketches, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and other modern art forms.Now in its 45th year, the event added a new wrinkle, one greatly appreciated by Will......
2008-03-09 00:16:00
MARYALICE BITTS, Correspondent
On a winter night in 1975, an art student named Frank Bender visited the Philadelphia city morgue for an impromptu figure-drawing lesson. It was an experience that changed his life. A lifelong artist and struggling young photographer, Bender was fresh out of the Navy and using his military bene......
2008-03-07 02:44:00
STAFF REPORT
Today is First Friday, which means there's plenty of new art to see in downtown Lancaster. Among the shows opening this week is Lancaster Museum of Art's Scholastic Art Awards show, which features the best work from the 18-and-under crowd.There's a lot to see at the exhibit, wi......
2008-03-02 00:14:00
GAIL GRAY, Special to the Sunday News
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City last week unveiled "Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster." I attended the exhibit early on its opening day, finding the whole exhibit, held in two adjoining galleries, before attendance became heavy. ......
2008-03-02 00:14:00
MARTY CRISP, Staff
"It's like something out of Dr. Seuss," said Martin Fischer, an employee of the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia. He was examining a whimsical, 24-foot-long walking clock, part of a new exhibit that opened in the museum's "Special Exhibits Room" Saturday....
2008-02-24 00:16:00
MELISSA JULIUS, Staff
Eleven-year-old Melissa Checo thought she knew her colors. The Lancaster Science Factory's "Colored Shadows" exhibit showed the sixth-grader she could still learn more. "Blue, red and green make white," Melissa said after using the exhibit to blend colors and guess the r......
2008-02-24 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL, Correspondent
Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous female artists of all time. Over the next few months, we're going to become very familiar with one of her paintings, "Self-portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird," because it's the signature piece heralding a major exhibit of her work at ...
2008-02-21 11:27:00
LAURA KNOWLES, Correspondent
They are called "them" — those who have darker skin, practice a different religion, come from another country, have a different sexual orientation, live in a different culture or simply look different. According to Dr. David Pilgrim, Chief Diversity Officer at Ferris State Un......
2008-02-15 02:45:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
There's something so sweet about the new show at Elizabethtown's Lynden Gallery.Never mind the chocolates, champagne and jazz that will fill the gallery at tonight's opening of "Figures, Circa 1950, from the journals and sketchbooks of Fran and Flo."The sweetne......
2008-02-14 21:05:00
LORI VAN INGEN, Staff
Many older people enjoy painting as a pastime.However, art was always much more than that for Masonic Village resident Fran Williams Wagner. Now in her 90s, Wagner spent her life building a successful artistic career that spanned decades and encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed ......
2008-02-14 01:49:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
For Jean Zaun, chocolate isn't just a Valentine's Day gift, it's an art supply."I sculpt and like working with oil paint and pastels," Zaun, an award-winning artist formerly known to fans as Jean Wertz, said. "But working with culinary products is a real challeng......
2008-02-08 02:21:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Cuba is a world away from Javier Machado.The tiny island a mere 90 miles off the tip of Florida might as well be on the other side of Earth.Machado grew up in Cuba and left not for political reasons, but for love. His plan to marry his girlfriend and live between the two countries w......
2008-02-02 01:42:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Some people think drinking a beer is a good way to pass the time.Vince and Rick Stanley, on the other hand, use beer to keep time.The innovative clockmakers from Millville used Yuengling Lager beer bottles to create a 21-foot-long clock with workable parts.Vince and his fathe......
2008-02-01 02:41:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Sarah Morton's original plan was to go to West Virginia and drum up some inspiration from the local coal miners.But the artist said she slowly changed her mind the longer she stayed at her secluded studio with only her paint supplies, books and her dog Fletcher to keep her company.......
2008-01-27 00:08:00
MARYALICE BITTS, Correspondent
It took Jake Mahaffy five years to finish his hourlong black-and-white film "War," and it's a wonder it didn't take longer. Not only did Mahaffy create the film entirely on his own — producing, writing, shooting, directing, editing and completing sound production with on......
2008-01-17 10:00:00
JANE HOLAHAN, Staff
Junior high science teacher Sylvia Branzei was cutting her toe nails one day back in 1992 when it hit her, "I literally thought, whoa, I like gross stuff. And it's really a great way to teach kids," she remembers. We'll never know the state of Branzei's feet, but ......
2008-01-11 00:32:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
The Lancaster Museum of Art is now presenting four separate exhibits by four local artists who are worlds apart.The show will run through March 2, and is the first since the recent departure of Cindi Morrison, the museum's well-respected executive director, who resigned her position to......
2008-01-10 12:16:00
RYAN ROBINSON, Staff
For the fourth year in a row, the number of exhibits at the Pennsylvania Farm Show has jumped. About 17,200 entries of animals, farm products and crops, fruits, vegetables, Christmas trees, various "family living" items, dance groups and ag education exhibits were set to be on display......
2008-01-08 00:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
It all started with a single painting."Shallow Creek," by Thomas Hart Benton (1888-1975), is the image of a country boy enjoying a barefoot stroll along a blue creek, invoking a time when America's rural landscapes didn't have to compete with suburban sprawl."......
2008-01-04 00:12:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Celebrated artist Constantine Kermes has some people he'd like you to meet.These nameless souls inhabit his latest collection of paintings, now showing at Lancaster Arts Hotel through Jan. 31. The exhibit, aptly named "People/Places: A Reflection of the Human Condition," repr......
2007-12-23 00:10:00
MARYALICE BITTS, Correspondent
A Robert A. Nelson exhibit is no place for the unimaginative. Representing the artist's rather gleeful disregard of the laws of time, natural order and reason, his exhibits present a sometimes playful and sometimes vaguely unnerving imagined world where allegory, mythology, classical and hi......
2007-12-23 00:08:00
JAMES BUESCHER, Correspondent
What is beauty? Among the Kayan tribe of Thailand, for example, women often use brass neck coils to achieve the more "beautiful"-and extremely elongated-feminine neck; among the Mursi tribe of Ethiopia, beauty is best achieved by removing the lower front four teeth and inserting a rou......
2007-12-21 00:56:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Getting around during Lancaster's First Fridays in the winter season doesn't have to be a chilly affair, now that you can hop the trolley.On Thursday, LancasterARTS announced that a First Friday Trolley will be available starting Jan. 4. Passage on the trolley is free."......
2007-12-17 00:59:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Disco may have died in the 1970s, but memorabilia from that era is still around and much admired by retro-loving collectors.Peter Seibert, executive director of Heritage Center of Lancaster County, suggested the decade that spawned pet rocks, bean bags and shag carpeting is worthy of serio......
2007-12-16 00:06:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER, Staff writer
Gathered around a glass display case, the Madison sisters — Heather, 8; Emma, 6; and Olivia, 4 — gazed at the museum treasures inside. Treasures of porcelain, of ornately carved wood, brass, velvet ... and Kitty Litter®. For although the setting was highbrow — Delawar......
2007-12-16 00:06:00
MARTY CRISP, Staff writer
Christmas and model trains go together like mistletoe and smooches. This year, the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg is kissing up to yuletide train enthusiasts big-time, showing "The Polar Express" at its IMAX theater and offering a collection of eight new model-train gardens in its Hars......
2007-12-07 03:18:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Brian Frailey had been selling books online for years, then one day, he had a realization."I looked around my home, and noticed I was running out of space," he said. "Most of my business is still done through Amazon and Alibris.com, but suddenly the idea of opening the store......
2007-12-07 01:44:00
BRIAN WALLACE, Staff
More than $2 million in state grants is headed to Lancaster County to help pay for two new nature preserves, four township parks, a recreational trail and an expansion of Tucquan Glen Preserve.The funding also will support the Lancaster-York Heritage Region.The grants are among the ......
2007-12-04 00:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Kim Klein said describing Italy is easy."All you have to know is one thing: In Italy, the good times are contagious," she said.The dePaul Gallery director, who started organizing photography workshops in foreign locales about two years ago, said her latest venture to Tusca......
2007-11-22 00:01:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Thirty-one years of "Trees Galore!" is a lot of trees.Originally, the Lancaster Museum of Art fundraiser consisted of artists sending in their own spins on the image of a Christmas tree. When that became a little redundant, artists began submitting their takes on trees throughout......
2007-11-16 02:08:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Remember bashing out your brother's brains with your lunch box? Relive a fond memory — or at least part of it — at Lancaster Museum of Art, where an ubercool exhibit of lunch boxes will make you feel 10 again. Once the ultimate (and pretty much only) vehicle of self-express......
2007-11-05 00:06:00
TOM KNAPP, Staff
The history of warfare is linked indelibly to transportation.From aircraft and naval vessels to jeeps and motorbikes, the military always has had to find better ways to get where it needs to go. That's where the histories of trains and troops overlap."Railroads really were ......
2007-11-02 04:01:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
When artist Christiane David opened up her own gallery three years ago, she was excited to meet her neighbor — Freiman Stoltzfus of Gallery 2 on North Prince Street."I moved in here, and heard music and laughing next door," David said in the distinct accent that reveals her......
2007-11-02 03:56:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Clara Tice was it. At least for a moment. Then she was forgotten.Dubbed the "Queen of Greenwich Village," this tiny woman ruled Manhattan's downtown bohemia like she owned it in the 1910s and 1920s.She was said to be the first woman in the Village to bob her h......
2007-11-02 03:50:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
As downtown Lancaster becomes a small arts mecca, the outlying areas sometimes get forgotten.Southern Lancaster County is trying to change that.This weekend, for something completely different, try a driving tour of several artists' studios in the scenic southern end.&quo......
2007-10-31 00:59:00
MADELYN PENNINO, Staff
Millersville University freshman James Glazier will never look at a can of Red Bull the same way again.Glazier drank more than 200 cans of the energy drink for a project in which he and former classmate Jenn Quach made a chess set out of Red Bull cans called "Check It Out."...
2007-10-25 00:01:00
LINDA ESPENSHADE, Staff
"Do you see the rhythm?" asked Pat Drennen, as she looked at her arrangement of fruits and vegetables.The bok choy pulls the eye to the right, lifting it over the large grapes, glancing off the Bartlett pear at the top and cascading through the champagne grapes to the top of the ......
2007-10-13 01:22:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Lancaster Museum of Art Executive Director Cindi Morrison has announced her resignation from the position she has held since 1997.Morrison told the museum's board of trustees of her resignation about three weeks ago. She said she expects to continue in her position at least through the......
2007-10-12 01:49:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
The last time artist Pietro Mantia was in Lancaster, he was planning a trip to Sicily and thinking of taking up permanent residency.But after filling last year with extensive traveling, networking and creating, Mantia began to realize there's no place like home.The 28-year-old n......
2007-10-11 11:24:00
JANE HOLAHAN, Staff
After overseeing a decade of growth, innovative exhibits, an explosion of art classes and the purchase of a new building on North Queen Street, Cindi Morrison is leaving the Lancaster Museum of Art. Morrison, the museum's executive director, cited the "elongated, protracted issues w......
2007-10-07 00:12:00
JON RUTTER, Staff writer
William E. Griscom started out as a farm boy in Salem, N.J., working with his hands. "That was my preferred learning style," he said. It also became his preferred teaching style. The approach served him well as president of the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology for the last ......
2007-10-05 02:38:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Demuth had a hand in it. The wild beasts played a part. But in Judith M. "Yahudith" Kirchoff's art, it's Yeshua she most credits."What is core to me whenever anybody asks about this is it's all about Yeshua," Kirchoff said. "I could not do what I am doi......
2007-09-28 01:37:00
JOHN JASCOLL, Correspondent
It's not often that a museum guide's style of presentation makes it worth visiting the collection she's talking about. But that's definitely the case with Victoria Wyeth, whose enthusiastic and informative tours of her grandfather Andrew Wyeth's paintings at the Brandywine Riv......
2007-09-23 00:13:00
MARTY CRISP, Staff writer
Why do coconuts float? Because they can't swim. OK, that's just a little "Beakman's World on Tour" humor. (Coconuts actually float so they can spread their seeds.) The whole why/because, question-and-answer format is the focus of North Museum's new interactiv......
2007-09-22 12:12:00
ANYA LITVAK
Your name is Mathabo. You are sitting on a white bench in a one-room clinic in "the mountain kingdom" of Lesotho, Africa. Your father has died of AIDS. Your mother left to find work in South Africa. "She does not return." You sleep on a 3-inch-thick egg crate. Your blan......
2007-09-13 08:43:00
JANE HOLAHAN, Staff
The paintings in the 28th Pennsylvania Watercolor Society International Exhibit may be confined to one medium, but the most striking aspect of this show, being hosted by the Lancaster Museum of Art, is its expansive quality. Anyone who's ever tried to paint a watercolor will be amazed by......
2007-09-09 00:02:00
MARYALICE BITTS, Correspondent
Think back to a single moment in your life. Is it a weighty, important moment, or an everyday event? Do you remember all of the details in crisp, photographic detail, or is it more of an impression that you recall, a soft-edged suggestion that's shaded by the way that moment felt? All point......
2007-09-07 02:26:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Eric Fowler could make an outhouse seem like the Taj Mahal.The artist has this way of putting the most average building — or the downright ugliest — on a pedestal as if no other building exists in the world.Fowler's paintings are often compared to Edward Hopper's......
2007-08-31 02:48:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
You'll like James V. Freeman.He's the rarest of conversationalists: interesting and interested, engaging and engaged.That he is a Professional Artist (the title indicating he not only survives on his art but thrives, as opposed to a "professional artist") makes him......
2007-08-27 20:41:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery at Lebanon Valley College is about to prove that bookworms are beautiful."The Art of Reading: The Oresman Collection" is a unique selection of more than 40 works on paper that share a common theme."All the subjects in the images have ......
2007-08-24 01:33:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
A few years ago, illustrator Murray Tinkleman uncovered a childhood scrapbook that chronicled his love of baseball.Dating back to the '30s and '40s, the scrapbook honored Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers and renewed his fascination with the game and its superstars.This ......
2007-08-16 00:25:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
A sizable grant announced Wednesday promises to put Charles Demuth's work right where it belongs: on his walls.The Demuth Museum, devoted to the Precisionist artist's life and work, is appropriately situated — in his childhood home at 120 E. King St.But the museum never had en......
2007-08-10 01:19:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Afternoon tea is taken to stylish new heights in a monthlong exhibit at Lancaster Museum of Art.Don't be fooled. "The Artful Teapot" shows just how cool a spot of tea can be.Manor Township resident Amy Thorn collects high-end teapots that are as clever as they are func......
2007-08-10 01:12:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Local artist Claire Giblin said it's easy to have a revelation — once you stop trying to have one.When she began her most recent body of work, "In Search of Harmony: Journey of the Line," Giblin looked for inspiration in many different places — poetry, ancient phi......
2007-08-03 00:03:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
If your tastes fall into the new, the untested, the a-little-bit-out-there art of emerging artists, finding it in Lancaster can be tough.It's even harder for those artists to find you.A new show at Cabbage Hill gallery Parlor is about the freshest thing to hit the city art scene......
2007-07-22 00:11:00
JON RUTTER, Staff writer
When Jim Bunting strolled through the doors of the future Lancaster Science Factory last week, he beheld 11,000 square feet of mostly wide open space. But all that room is rapidly yielding to an ambitious vision as workers hammer and drill. If all goes according to plan, little paper parac......
2007-07-06 00:24:00
KIM O'BRIEN, Staff
When Michelangelo set out to sculpt his famous "David," the artist used a discarded marble block — considered worthless — for the sculpture.Local artist David Zimmerman may not have realized it, but his approach to wooden sculpture is remarkably similar."B......
2007-07-06 00:20:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
It's sort of like an ink blot test for many of us.But for the abstract expressionists who carved out their new style starting in the 1940s, it was nothing short of a release of their innermost selves.Melville Price is largely forgotten in the ranks of better-known abstract expre......
2007-06-17 00:04:00
KELLY L. WATSON, Correspondent
Some people think of aliens as intergalactic monsters with razor fangs. Others know them as little green men with space helmets and laser guns. But life on other planets is probably far different than movies would lead us to believe. That's the premise behind "The Science of Aliens,&qu......
2007-06-14 16:26:00
JANE HOLAHAN
With the billions and billions of stars out there, you've got to wonder: Are we alone? Or is there life throughout the universe? Cue the scary music ... aliens are invading! It's time for Sci Fi Theater! Well, no. Actually, it's time for a visit to the Harsco Science Cente......
2007-06-14 16:11:00
LAURA KNOWLES, Correspondent
Can you spell I-N-T-E-R-C-O-U-R-S-E, P-A? If so, you won't want to miss the big spelling bee at the 4th annual Intercourse Heritage Days this weekend at the Community Park. Actually, the old-fashioned spelling bee is mostly for kids, but there will be plenty of other things for grownups at ......
2007-06-08 02:05:00
RACHEL FETROW, Staff
Downtown Lititz merchants have banded together to prove, in the words of one store owner, that Lititz is more than just a "daytime town." "Lovin' Lititz Every 2nd" kicks off tonight with chocolate tastings, a poetry reading and other sales, special events and p......
2007-06-05 02:00:00
ERIC HUGHES, Staff
Gail Hillard sees Lancaster Summer Arts Festival as "an evolution."The festival, in its 44th year, has consistently transformed itself since its its 1960s birth, from a small art show in Quarryville to today's two-month celebration of cultural activities and entertainment in ......
2007-06-01 02:48:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Asian paper folding reigns at this year's Open Art Award.Out of 191 artists' entries, one only was origami and it's this year's first place winner.Artist Lou Ziegler's "Good Night Grace," a large, boxy origami mixed media piece, caught the eye of Kutzto......
2007-06-01 02:24:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
It was 45 whirlwind days for the record books.If you enjoyed Nathan Sawaya's LEGO® sculpture exhibit at Lancaster Museum of Art, you were part of the biggest crowd-pleaser in the museum's 42-year history."We're still in recovery mode," museum director Cindi......
2007-04-13 01:37:00
Susan E. Lindt, Staff
The LEGO® artist featured on the first floor of Lancaster Museum of Art is garnering so much attention, the other three might have slipped by without much notice.But the trio in the upstairs galleries hold their own, covering the gamut from whimsy to earthy, painting to poured glass, t......
2007-04-13 01:32:00
Carla Di Fonzo, Staff
Shane Green paints Lancaster's rural landscapes, but his work is anything but familiar territory.His exhibit, "A Sense of Place," at Mulberry Art Studios through April 28, redefines the local scenery, allowing viewers to see Lancaster with a pair of fresh eyes."Mu......
2007-04-06 01:04:00
Susan E. Lindt, Staff
Nathan Sawaya was a corporate attorney in New York City. Now he makes stuff out of LEGOs® for a living.Don't knock it. The way he sees it, that lawyer thing was just a detour anyway."I'm not really an attorney-turned-LEGO® artist," he said. "I was a LE......
2007-04-06 00:40:00
Carla Di Fonzo, Staff
This year's Echo Valley Art Group exhibit is all about thinking outside the box."EV2" or "Echo Valley Squared," now on display at Lancaster Galleries, is a broad selection of work from 24 of the area's most talented artists, proving without a doubt that great mi......
2007-04-06 00:04:00
Susan E. Lindt, Staff
She was a Philadelphia debutante who kept exotic birds. She was a proper Victorian wife and mother. And on the other end of the spectrum, she dared to be a diehard Modernist when Impressionism was the flavor of the day.Mary G.L. Hood isn't your average anything, although taken in piece......
2007-04-06 00:03:00
Susan E. Lindt, Staff
It's not often the eye is lured from the art to the frame — but there's something special about these frames.Those eye-catching frames around so many of Mary G.L. Hood's paintings are from the hand of Bernard Badura — one of America's most renowned framemakers....
2007-04-04 14:27:00
Jane Holahan, Staff writer
Five points. Eight points. No points at all. Stars of all shapes, sizes and purposes will be on display in Lancaster's Penn Square beginning Friday when the Heritage Center Museum opens "Stars Over Pennsylvania." The exhibit, which will run through the end of the year, features quilts and ......
2007-03-31 01:04:00
Susan E. Lindt, Staff
Heart disease kills many men, but it's even more lethal for women, experts say.Lancaster General Hospital's Women & Babies Hospital wants to spread the word that heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, killing more than the next 16 causes combined.Women'......
2007-03-30 00:33:00
Carla Di Fonzo, Staff
There's only two more weeks to catch a glimpse of the "Carlos Luna: Personal Histories" exhibit at Lebanon Valley College's Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery.However, if you can't make it to the college in time to see the Cuban native's rustic work, a concurrent exhib......
2007-03-10 00:15:00
Rebecca J. Ritzel, Correspondent
On a hill above a lush, flowering field, the smokestacks of Auschwitz pump human ashes into the atmosphere.It's not irony that artist Ita Mond is striving for in this watercolor she calls "Spring 1942," it's optimism."When I tell people I paint Holocaust-theme......
2007-03-02 00:24:00
Carla Di Fonzo, Staff
You could say Isadore Gallery's "Lost Boundaries" exhibit is wonderfully fleshed out."I like to think of it as sensual," said gallery co-owner Leslie Halpern. "There's some nudes, a lot of flesh and images of chocolate — and if that's not......
2007-03-01 13:05:00
Kathleen Daminger
The first time local artist Judy Crabtree saw "the twins,'' they were wearing matching lime green outfits. "I became obsessed with them, but you know I couldn't find out what their names were,'' she says. "Everybody knew who they were, but nobody reall......
2007-02-22 13:52:00
Jane Holahan
A taste of tandoori. The wisdom of Gandhi. Hindu deities. Bollywood. Lancaster is immersing itself in the culture of India beginning Sunday and running all next week. "Mela: A Harmony of East and West," is bringing together a wide variety of Lancaster's cultural organizati......
2007-02-15 13:16:00
Jane Holahan
Are you looking at your brown backyard and wishing you could see a pink tulip? A yellow forsythia? A stunning white clematis? Does winter make you long for the garden, the color green and dirt under your fingernails? And does the sight and scent of a bouquet of flowers remind you of spr......
2007-02-09 00:40:00
Carla Di Fonzo, Staff
Sarah McRae Morton isn't the typical 22-year-old artist.As a painter, she's developed a meticulous style that's beyond her years."If you looked at her paintings and didn't know who she is, you could easily assume the work was made by a 60-year-old," said Le......
2007-01-28 00:01:00
Jon Rutter, Staff Writer
The notion blossomed spontaneously Thursday, in the best tradition of science. Converting an elevated office in a northeast Lancaster factory building to a toy airplane "flight deck" would be a great idea, agreed Jim Bunting and Ray and Lisa Shirk. "I'll be throwing a......
2007-01-17 12:35:00
Compiled by Marilyn Killian
Published Jan. 18, 2007 Lititz and Manheim showed well during last week’s state farm show in Harrisburg, including Lace Acres farm in Lititz and Joelynn Donough from Manheim. The 2007 Pennsylvania Farm Show produced the following local results:...
2007-01-12 00:09:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Author Douglas Adams thought they were just plain ugly: "It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' appear."
Artist Kris Harzinski disagrees.
"Layover" is Harzinski's ode to the airport — that stopping ground used solely as......
2007-01-09 15:36:02
Ryan Robinson
Between 8,000 and 10,000 farmers from all parts of the state attended the Pennsylvania Corn, Fruit, Dairy Products and Wool Show as it was called back then. This week, 400,000 mostly non-farmers are expected at the show now billed as the country’s largest indoor agricultural exposition. The ex......
2007-01-06 23:40:56
Judy A. Strausbaugh, Business/political Writer
Less than 15 minutes after giving his opening-day speech at the 91st annual Pennsylvania Farm Show Saturday morning, Gov. Ed Rendell was in the food court chowing down a beef sandwich.
As the governor opened wide, a passerby asked, “Is he really going to eat that in front of all these peo...
2007-01-06 11:42:13
Ryan Robinson And Anya Litvak
“Yes, that’s Ben Franklin reading the Liberty Bell,” Diane Hamill of Lawrence County told her skeptical son. “All butter?” he repeated. “Gee, I could never make a sculpture out of butter.” It’s a conversation you will hear only at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, which kicked off today and continue......
2006-12-18 18:49:54
Jennifer Todd
About 2,000 people took advantage of free admission to visit the 37-year-old museum, which is part of the Dutch Wonderland complex, during Community Days held Saturday and Sunday.
The event offered visitors a chance to experience the attraction before its doors close Dec. 30.
“A lot of...
2006-11-10 10:45:12
Susan Jurgelski
He wasn’t going to betray his carefully guarded secret with a face-splitting grin. So far, he thought, she didn’t suspect a thing. As they walked hand-in-hand around the case filled with precious minerals, all carefully labeled, his heart drummed in his chest. Soon, he thought, excitedly....
2006-11-03 00:31:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
The human condition — mostly without the humans — is at Parlor.
Two friends' photographic view of the little things we often miss (and sometimes try to miss) are on display in "Where Are You?," a new exhibit at the Cabbage Hill gallery.
The title comes from photo......
2006-10-19 10:35:24
10 Years Ago
Thursday’s Record Express October 17, 1996
• Dangerous Intersection - A Lititz teenager was fortunate to avoid serious injury after a Sunday collision at one of Elizabeth Township’s most dangerous intersections. Vehicle accidents seem to be a monthly routine at B......
2006-10-19 01:01:19
Jennifer Todd
Some of the money will pay for restoration of the Thaddeus Stevens house in Lancaster, and another chunk will go toward the Lauxmont Farms property on the Susquehanna River.
Gov. Ed Rendell Wednesday announced $1.5 million in grants meant to preserve Pennsylvania’s heritage and help create to...
2006-09-25 14:06:20
Chad Umble
Animal judging, craft and food contests, rides and unique contests like a pig chase, tug-of-war and baby parade highlight the five-day event, which annually attracts tens of thousands. “All these people that come together for one activity make this a really good community event that 20,000 people......
2006-09-20 14:51:27
Andy Fasnacht
And as of next Monday evening, when the 88th edition of Pennsylvania’s largest street fair rolls into town, that tradition will go the way of five-cent balloons as the Ephrata Farmers Day Association (EFDA) convinced Ephrata Borough to move the long-standing street closing time from 9 to 7:30 p.m....
2006-09-18 14:20:07
Jane Holahan
The Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, 37-41 N. Market St., is planning to expand by 4,500 square feet by the end of 2007, enabling bigger and bolder exhibits in its gallery space and about 10 more quilts in its main display area. “We’ll be filling in the courtyard,” says Peter Seibert, the execut......
2006-09-07 09:12:33
Old school contests like smelly sneaker, Jell-o eating and cow chip poker will be brought back for old times’ sake.
•Sept. 12- The crowning of Miss Denver Fair, sponsored by Country Lane Flowers, will be held Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. during the opening ceremonies. This year’s young women are going ...
2006-07-26 13:32:31
For the past eight years, Mary Binder has been involved with the crafts department of the fair. Merv Esh, president of the Ephrata Fair Organization, said, “Mary has been a tremendous support to the Ephrata Fair. She works the entire fair week.”
Mr. Binder assists with the computer center whe...
2006-07-20 12:41:55
Nate Drenner
Delaware American Indians called it “Susquehanna.” But however it’s referred to, the Susquehanna River has shaped life in Lancaster and York Counties for centuries. An exhibit that opened Wednesday night at the Lancaster County Historical Society was the first of more than 40 events in the com......
2006-05-26 08:24:20
Carla Di Fonzo, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Liz Hess and Freiman Stoltzfus opened Gallery 2 only last month, but the local artists already have "regulars" and more than their share of foot traffic.
Part of their early success can be attributed to the gallery's prime location at 140 N. Prince St., in the middle of Gallery Row. But m...
2006-05-25 08:23:43
Madelyn Pennino, Intelligencer Journal Staff
More than 60 years later, the group's story continues to inspire.
Seventeen-year-old Conestoga Valley High School junior Abbie Groff stumbled across the group while seeking a history research project. She turned the discovery into academic success.
Abbie recently won first place in...
2006-05-13 23:38:16
Jon Rutter
“I tried to draw every single bone,” she remembered. But the long-tailed lizard was simply too big to squeeze onto a single sheet.
The sketch ended up taking three pages.
Today, Marino’s vision for the North Museum of Natural History & Science is in a similar bind....
2006-05-12 13:00:30
Ad Crable
And a whole lot more when a new, $10 million to $20 million North Museum of Natural History and Science is built within the next five years in or on the edge of Lancaster City. The board of the North Museum this week unveiled its new vision for an interactive, high-tech regional science center th......
2006-04-15 13:04:08
Tim Mekeel
But not deciding. Not yet. The Staten Island developer who’s agreed to buy the Lancaster Stockyards said Friday he’s early in his search for the optimal use of the 22-acre city tract. But, depending on the pace of the design and approval process, developer Tim Harrison said he could break grou......
2006-04-12 12:07:13
Andy Fasnacht, Review Editor, Afasnacht.eph@lnpnews.com
But while the Ephrata Farmers Day Association does take in more than $200,000 from the event each year, and provide the vehicle for dozens of local non-profits to make a year’s worth of fund-raisers in a week, skyrocketing expenses leave a deficit that unfortunately is getting larger.
On Mond...
2006-04-11 13:40:07
Jane Holahan
Mrs. Lestz came to Lancaster in 1956 to work at Armstrong World Industries (then Armstrong Cork) as head of the Bureau of Interior Design. “What a blessing when Margaret came to Lancaster,” Carol Morgan said this morning. Morgan is a former Demuth Foundation director and a friend of Lestz. “Ma......
2006-03-24 08:03:00
Colby Itkowitz, Intelligencer Journal Staff
For the past decade, a student from the high school has walked away as grand champion or champion of the Lancaster Newspapers Science & Engineering Fair.
The science fair was sponsored by Lancaster Newspapers Inc. and Pfizer Inc. & Pfizer Global Manufacturing, Lititz.
Thursday nigh...
2006-03-23 08:10:25
Colby Itkowitz, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Falon Deimler, however, a ninth-grader at Ephrata Senior High School who watches such shows, said she was skeptical of Luminol's accuracy.
So, for the 53rd annual Lancaster Newspapers Science & Engineering Fair, co-sponsored by Pfizer, Inc./Pfizer Global Manufacturing of Lititz, which beg...
2006-03-22 08:20:48
Susan E. Lindt - Intelligencer Journal Staff
The $1 million initiative to transform the dilapidated space at 150-152 S. Prince St. is finally turning a corner -- demolition is finished and now the rebuilding is in full swing.
On March 30, up to 40 Home Depot employees will donate their time to lay tiles, install drop ceiling grids a...
2006-03-17 08:36:08
Marichelle, Roque-lutz, Intelligencer Journal Staff
His idea for "Portraits" -- artists onstage painting on canvas their impressions of the music being played -- came from these experiences with his father.
Dorothy English, development coordinator of Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired, is excited. "Music and art, it'...
2006-03-11 12:24:20
Bernard Harris
At the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, visitors can try on period clothing, listen to music on the wind-up Victrola and hear a costumed interpreter tell them how to “fit in” in America. In Cincinnati, visitors to the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center can crawl into a crate, like t......
2006-02-20 09:07:27
Colby Itkowitz, Intelligencer Journal Staff
"I was just looking to see what would happen," Arndt said. "I've never seen anything like it. It's completely my own."
The Lancaster Country Day School senior's experiment won him a silver key in the 43rd annual Scholastic Art Awards contest.
Arndt stood in front of his prize-winning p...
2006-01-24 08:27:54
Jeff Hawkes - Intelligencer Journal Staff
I told him I took issue with his advocacy of an amendment to Pennsylvania's constitution that would ban same-sex marriages, and he still agreed to an interview.
Boyd is a personable and high-spirited Republican who ably represents a slice of small-town Lancaster County, and we engaged in ...
2006-01-21 13:11:03
Susan Jurgelski
The birthday of an F&M co-namesake was his spark. On Jan. 17 three centuries ago, Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), a scientist, scholar, diplomat, entrepreneur, activist, musician, writer, philanthropist and inventor of everything from electricity to bifocals, was born. That hallmark led Fry, w......
2006-01-18 16:13:17
Sports and Recreation
Lancaster County Central Park, along the Conestoga River, is a major recreational area, with a swimming pool, a skate park, picnic facilities, tennis courts, baseball fields, camping facilities, nature trails and the services of a park naturalist, a Garden of Five Senses...
2005-12-30 09:29:54
Your Life Staff
GOVERNOR’S DAY 8 a.m. Judging: Live Poultry - E 8 a.m. Draft Horse Judging: Belgian, Clydesdale, Shire and Percheron - EA 8 a.m. Judging: School Window Exhibits - M 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Family Living Demonstrations - M 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. Shaver's Creek Environmental Center Exhibit - M 9 a.......
2005-12-02 10:49:32
Paula Holzman, Intelligencer Journal Staff
"The building just can't come close to meeting our needs," Marino said Wednesday afternoon.
With that in mind, the museum has launched a search for a new home as part of a five-year plan.
"We've had people approach us (with new sites), but at this point not to make any serious offer th...
2005-11-19 23:29:48
By Daina Savage
Her annual Holiday Showcase traditionally features work from an array of local artists, hung in salon fashion and ready for gift-giving.
This year the task of festooning the gallery is bittersweet. Central Market Art Gallery, 15 W. King St., is the birthplace of downtown’s ......
2005-11-15 12:51:49
Jack Brubaker
Halfway through the book, Horwitz wrote something that hit the Scribbler right between the eyes. Horwitz said his interest in the war began in the mid-1960s, when he was 6 years old, at the end of the centennial, when he was surrounded by war books and war games and toy cannons and other neat war......
2005-11-04 10:18:32
Roberta Strickler, Intelligencer Staff Writer
For example, you can hear the practical: a chic definition on how to tie and wear a scarf, or how to decorate your house with crafts or according to feng shui principles.
For the other side of your brain or your soul, a neurophysicist will talk about physics and the effect of vibration freque...
2005-10-12 16:08:53
Exhibits on fire safety, equipment demonstrations, door prizes, free food and ice cream will be available for all. This year, other organizations have been invited to display equipment including Ephrata Community Ambulance, Medic 4, Ephrata Police, Pioneer Fire Company and others. Hand-out material ...
2005-10-05 16:21:39
Special exhibits will offer a wide variety of information about services focused on women’s breast care needs. Free clinical breast exams will be available from 6 to 7 p.m. This free program includes refreshments and door prizes. Registration is requested. For more information or to register, cal......
2005-10-03 16:30:02
Drought continues to reign; despite three days of rain, the drought that dried out the cornfields and reduced area waterways to shallow flows, still is not over. *** Ephrata picks homecoming court; Ephrata High School selected six senior girls as homecoming queen candidates; they are: Bridgett......
2005-10-03 16:03:18
Andy Fasnacht, Review Editor, Afasnacht.eph@lnpnews.com
And with the way the Ephrata Farmers Day Association has continued to improve and branch out in many areas of the grand event&tstr;that’s no small task. I really didn’t start out the week with that goal in mind but right from the get-go this year was different because: •I pedaled down to Tent ......
2005-10-03 09:43:16
Barry Decker, Sunday News Correspondent
That was the case with first-timer to this distance, Robert Dressler, 22, of Ronks, who won the 13.1-mile race in a time of 1:10:16.
"I relaxed at the beginning of the race, running in second place. Then at the eight-mile point, where there was a good hill, I started pushing the pace and was ...
2005-09-30 08:53:29
Carla Di Fonzo, Intelligencer Journal Staff
"We surveyed people who participated in last year's Art Walk, and they said it was great, except they wished they had more time to see all of the exhibits," said Lancaster Museum of Art director Cindy Morrison. "It's just a matter of giving people what they want, and they wanted more than one day."...
2005-09-16 13:37:25
Andy Fasnacht, Review Editor, Afasnacht.eph@lnpnews.com
Nonetheless, the Ephrata Farmers Day Association’s big show will follow right on the heels of Denver’s fair-currently going o all week in Denver Park-and will once again offer something and more for just about everyone in the family. And by more, well...that usually refers to the absolute festival o...
2005-09-07 09:04:54
Barry Decker, Intelligencer Journal Correspondent
The race, which is sponsored by Auntie Anne's, Inc., debuted with 400 runners and organizers look for 600 this year.
Until last year, a half-marathon race was missing from the county since the Amish Half Marathon ended in 1994.
"With the turnout last year of 400, it was reassuring that...
2005-08-22 13:50:18
David O'connor
Ben Franklin is about to turn 300, the first of America’s Founding Fathers to hit the three-century mark. And the Lancaster college that bears his name is holding a yearlong party. Franklin & Marshall College is about to embark on a celebration throughout the 2005-06 school year to mark the 30......
2005-08-15 12:54:57
Catherine S. Molitoris
And we did it all without breaking a sweat. When the summer heat becomes overwhelming, head to the Hands-on House. Lancaster’s only children’s museum is home to hours of entertainment, geared to children ages 2 to 10. The Hands-on House opened in 1987 at the corner of Landis Valley Road and Or......
2005-07-21 14:42:50
Kathy Blankenbiller, Record Express Staff
Held March 14-16 this year, 304 students participated, interacting with 79 judges, 12 of those judges being from Pfizer.
“Lancaster Newspapers is here to say thank you, Pfizer, for your generous sponsorship of $15,000, which helped to defray the costs of the fair,” said Dr. Anne Marie Steele,...
2005-07-13 09:11:57
Kristy Buller, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Tantalizing treats and souvenir vendors lined the football stadium of Stevens State College of Technology, where the festival has been held for about five years.
“I always try to stop out,” Lancaster Mayor Charlie Smithgall said. “The food is great. Great people. Just a great time.”
Tu...
2005-07-07 13:52:55
July 10 - Perfect Unions: Husbands, Wives, and Celibates. Ephrata Cloister. Noon - 4:00 p.m. Part two in the Stages of Life series will explore Ephrata’s views on marriage. View demonstrations and one-day exhibits, and learn the story of one Sister who wrestled with her commitment to God, and her de...
2005-07-07 13:46:12
Gloria Sananes Stein, Special Features Writer
At Hagley, an historian’s Disneyland, one can be carried back to the 19th century when viewing exhibits and demonstrations, indoors and out on the site of the original estate. Opened in 1957, Hagley Museum is the site of a gunpowder works, founded by E.I du Pont in 1802; the yards were shut down in ...
2005-06-25 23:41:56
Jon Rutter
Literally.
The venerable institution at 400 College Ave. has launched a hunt for a new home, executive director Margie Marino announced last week.
The search will begin in earnest by summer’s end, after the museum completes a long-range “Vision” plan analyzing its mission, audience and...
2005-06-06 14:41:14
Catherine S. Molitoris
There, you’ll find the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and its newest exhibit, 1915 Street Scene. “We felt we needed an exhibit that talked about how important the railroad has been to small Pennsylvania towns,” says David W. Dunn, museum director. “A lot of Pennsylvania towns owe their existence......
2005-05-18 14:45:11
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2005-05-12 09:20:52
Brett Lovelace And Madelyn Pennino
A wayward plane from Lancaster County sparked a brief panic in the nation's capital Wednesday afternoon when it crossed into restricted airspace near the White House.
The pilot, Hayden "Jim" Sheaffer Jr., 69, of Lititz, and his passenger, Troy D. Martin, 36, of Akron, were taken i......
2005-03-18 09:19:47
Dave Pidgeon
Developers of a history center at the Lancaster home of Thaddeus Stevens are regrouping after plans to build a convention center/luxury hotel were halted this week.
Leaders of the Historic Trust of Lancaster said Thursday their plans are clouded because the $10 million interpretive muse......
2005-03-18 09:15:24
Patrick Burns
The plan, sponsored by Central Market Master Plan Committee, was presented during a meeting in City Council Chambers.
Committee member Valerie Moul told the audience public support is crucial to achieving the recommendations presented in the plan, compiled by Murphy & Dittenhafer ......
2005-03-09 15:06:55
Conveying the tract of land that is now Pennsylvania to William Penn, the original charter for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was signed by King Charles II in March 1681 in recognition of the loyalty of Penn’s deceased father to the English monarchy.
Visitors of all ages are invited to view...
2005-03-04 12:22:44
Jack Brubaker
“What are they going to put here now?’’ asked one city resident. “It’s going to be a ghost town,’’ said another. But business leaders predicted better days ahead. One praised the marketability of “a beautiful building of historic significance in a highly desirable location with high traffic an......
