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A Native American longhouse is rising from the Willow Street soil like a huge loaf of bread.

The oddly shaped wooden structure is being built in a former horse pasture near the 1719 Hans Herr House Museum, Lancaster County's oldest surviving homestead.

"The framework is pretty much complete," ...

Anyone who's stopped in for a cone from Maggie Moo's Ice Cream and Treatery, especially with a kid in tow, expects to find the electric blue swath of cotton candy ice cream in the freezer case.

A maple bacon-studded milkshake though? That might seem a stretch for a franchise best known for its sm...

This week I reached out for one of the great eating treats in the world, a Steak and Mushroom Pie at The Windmill, an "ale and pie pub" on Mill Street, just off Regent Street and down the block from Savile Row, in London.

Savile Row is where the Beatles performed on the Apple building rooftop &md...

Think a picture of the bride and groom on the expansive wraparound porch at historic Rock Ford Plantation would be perfect?

Or how about a family portrait taken by a professional photographer in front of the Maple Grove School at Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum?

How about a promotional s...

Excerpts and summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They focus on events in the county's past that were noteworthy, newsworthy or just strange. Full versions are available on microfilm at Lancaster Public Li...

The man walked into the bedroom, his eyes taking everything in, and he frowned.

He was heartsick, almost despondent. From the expression on his face, it appeared that his life was crashing down around him.

"It's not a very big master bedroom," he said, or something to that effect. "That's a co...

"I remember when World War I ended," Lillia Campbell said from an armchair.

"Mother was hanging the wash. She dropped everything, and everyone went to Elizabethtown for the parade."

Campbell was 7 years old at the time, a middle child in a family of tenant farmers.

Today she turns 100 &mdas...

There is something about shaking John Miner's hands that gives you the humbling feeling you haven't done anything yet, and that you are in the presence of history.

His hand is tender but firm, the hand of a man who has lived long and is still enjoying life.

Miner turns 100 today, and he will r...

 

It's an interesting question: If you could say just one thing, what would you say?
Some folks shy away from these types of pointed, big-picture questions; others approach them with zeal. As a member of the latter class, I ran right out and bought Kate Winslet's new book, "The Golden Hat: T...

Twitter has received a great deal of attention for the ways it connects people over great distances, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street.
The microblogging service is credited with helping to connect protesters inside Egypt to the rest of the world, and the U.S. State Department even asked Tw...