This weekend offers a snapshot of many of Lancaster County s best attractions, with quilts, auctions, heirloom seed sales and historical tours aplenty.
The growing success of Heritage Days over a number of years, in France and around Europe, is a testimony to a phenomenon of society that can no longer be ignored. Neglected for too long, our architectural heritage has regained legitimacy to a perhaps surprising degree. In France and elsewhere in Europe, citizens are seeking memories that they feel to be under threat. The concept of heritage having broadened, an ever-increasing number of people are putting into practice their desire to utilize a most diverse range of monuments from the past, rather than see them abandoned or demolished. Tracking 4 beautiful stories about the conservation and restoration of 4 'pearls' of European heritage, this film will reveal the extent to which buildings from another era can become precious tools in the reconstruction of places of reflection, study, or creativity.
Everybody is welcome to a community event to stain the Menard Barn at Brooks Historical Society on Saturday, May 20, 1-6 p.m. (rain date is Saturday, May 27). There will