Part One: The Sermon I'm one of those people. I don't kill bugs, I don't leave the campfire unattended, and I brake for turtles. As a kid, I was fortunate that I had family with some woodland property, and I've loved nature for as long as I...
When I first became a resident of the county in 2010, I lived in Elizabethtown, right near my place of work: Elizabethtown College. Since I was new to the area and alone, I found it hard to meet people in beautiful, quaint E-town. I had...
Clark's Ferry to Peters Mountain Summit // Appalachian Trail We needed to get outta town, and fast. An agreed cup of coffee and egg sandwich brekkie to get our asses out of bed by 8am: check. A plethora of superfood snacks as our sweet reward after...
Close your eyes and imagine a grand medieval hall and now open them in the Gypsy Kitchen. Housed in the Dietz Hall Refectory at the Lancaster Theological Seminary, this locally sourced and locally inspired restaurant shares space with the Seminary and is as close as...
I cannot even begin to express the joy that came over me last Thursday as a large, black van rounded the corner of Grant St. and Charlotte. It had been many months of planning, phone calls and emails, and here they were, about to park...
Small Room Collective is a mobile mercantile & gallery space built in a gutted, hand-reconstructed 1963 Airstream Globetrotter, functioning as a gallery-shop-by-day and a studio-home-by-night. We feature art, pressed vinyl, apparel and small goods from independent makers and shakers as well as vintage clothing gathered on our travels...
By Mackenzie Snader It’s a mile-long walk to the nearest park. With my 22 lb son strapped to my back and our toddler babysittee in the stroller, it’s a pretty good workout. Workouts are hard to come by in my new life as a new mom,...
On the corners of W Lemon St and N Charlotte St sit perhaps the two most delightful and impossibly pretentious storefronts in Lancaster. Not that the stores or their owners are in any anyway pretentious, but because each carry such delectable wares, that their customers...
I still remember the morning I woke up in Australia after a 14-hour flight. I found myself in a cramped room, my luggage surrounding me, feeling utterly alone. I had no idea where to go, which way to head next, where to even eat breakfast....
In 2010, I had the good fortune to become a full-time barista at a popular restaurant in the city where I lived. I'd had several years of training in coffee (and to a lesser extent in tea,) but this restaurant was unique. Our bar was...