Published May 6, 2008, 2:11 AM EST

by SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff

2121 River Rd, Washington Boro - Tibet may seem a million miles away, but this weekend, it'll be in the local spotlight.Before Mary Ellen Francescani became an intensive care unit nurse at Lancaster Regional Medical Center, when she was fresh out of college, she toured Tibet with her best friend. It was 1993, and she ......

Published May 1, 2008, 8:00 AM EST

by AMY ORNDORFF / The Washington Post

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - If you were one of the most popular writers of horror stories for kids, what would give YOU goosebumps?

How about running out of ideas?

"Oh, don't say it!" author R.L. Stine begs.

Although he's spent more than 20 years writing for kids and teens, Stine isn't fini......

Published April 25, 2008, 1:12 AM EST

by LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff

2042 Lititz Pike, Lancaster - Lancaster Public Library is gearing up for its huge spring book sale in the Overlook Activities Center in Overlook Park set for next week.More than 200,000 books will be for sale at the three-day fundraiser that is visited annually by more than 6,000 readers."We have some reall......

Published April 22, 2008, 1:54 AM EST

by JEFF HAWKES, Staff

Harrisburg Ave & College Ave, Lancaster - Michael Kimmel is an academic whose passion is exploring what it means to be a man.He teaches sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook and writes books with titles like "The History of Masculinity" and "The Politics of Manhood" — none of which I've read, or have a burnin......

Published April 18, 2008, 8:45 PM EST

by JOHN JASCOLL, Correspondent

US 1 & Creek Rd,Chadds Ford - "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......

Published April 11, 2008, 1:27 AM EST

by SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff

222 Eden Rd, Lancaster - Baltimore mystery author Laura Lippman gets irritated when people call her "Sir."She said she realizes it's just a matter of a clerk or baggage handler not truly hearing or seeing her as they dutifully attend to her needs.Still, she said at Thursday's annual Nation......

Published April 10, 2008, 10:34 AM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN, Staff

Lititz - Imagine.

Many of the people who attend Lovin' Lititz Every 2nd walk from their homes into town.

That's right. Walk.

And they go to locally owned stores and restaurants to celebrate their town on the second Friday of every month.

Imagine that.

No gassing up the car, no visiti......

Published April 6, 2008, 12:02 AM EST

by MARTY CRISP, Staff

Lancaster - Sandy Asher became a writer because of Jo March, the young heroine of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women." "Before I read that book, I didn't know people got paid to write. I thought it was just a game I enjoyed playing," Asher said. "As it turned out, I married ......

Published April 2, 2008, 1:15 AM EST

by JENNIFER TODD, Staff

Lancaster - Arts, retail, dining, sports, lodging — all are about to become ONE in downtown Lancaster.The elements that comprise Lancaster city's urban lifestyle have been uniquely woven together in a stunning visual package called Lancaster ONE, a tour guide and resource for residents and v......

Published March 23, 2008, 3:30 PM EST

by SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff

2300 Lincoln Hwy E, Lancaster - "Contemporary quilts" almost seems like an oxymoron in these parts, where quilting is steeped in generations of tradition.So it's little surprise contemporary quilts haven't really caught on with art collectors.But what keeps these art-world wallflowers off collect......