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As a kid,my favorite Christmas song was Snoopy and the Red Baron (Christmas Bells) by the Royal Guardsmen.

this was posted at youtube by Krby84 .

Happy Holidays to Snoopy , the red baron, and to all.

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Art has had a influence on my hometown of Lancaster, Pa for a long time. One can see it the affect of the “artist” in the cities Architecture and downtown bohemian shops. Today Lancaster is home to the Pennsylvania School of Art. down town Lancaster is dotted with small galleries.

Lancaster  has been the home of many Artists, The most famous in the world of Art was  percisionist and American Cubist, Charles Demuth. (His most Famous work: I saw the number five in gold.)

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Today, once a month, Lancaster holds a community event dubbed “First Fridays“. Every First Friday of the month  the many small galleries open their  doors and  wave admission prices. The event is held in the evening and many of the coffee house cafe’s stay open late in Downtown Lancaster.

A “first Friday” Art event is held in many cities today, however here in Lancaster its become a huge community outing. It draws thousands of people  Downtown once a month.

This First Friday I chose to spend most of my time at the
Red Raven

A Blues trio dubbed  “the Willie Marble Experience” was Rocking the small Art gallery. I can say its the first time I  enjoying Watercolor painting, post modernist Sculpture and A raunchy delta Blues cover of “Mustang Sally” all at the same time.

.The Willie Marble Xperience is touring to raise grant money for “Music for Everyone“  They are definitely worth checking out for Blues Fan in Central Pennsylvania. No admission was asked for my Blues and Art hang out, However I did by a couple CDs…. So i  also did some Xmas Shopping as well on Friday nite…of course there was plenty of art to by.

It seems the arts will continue to have along history with the Community of Lancaster.

The art pictured in this post is available for purchase at the Red Raven Art Company:
*www.redravenartcompany.com*
A full list and map of the Lancaster galleries is at   *www.lancasterarts.com* .

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This Weekend saw the The tree lighting ceremony in Downtown Lancaster…
A nice way to kick off the Holiday season.

(unfortunately I still have difficulty with night photos… The Christmas tree at Penn Square looks alot nicer than my photo to the Left)
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For the past thirty years, the celebration has included Tuba Christmas… A gathering of more than thirty Tuba and Sousaphone players…

Playing Christmas Carols.

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I love the crowds and the Buzz during this time of year, everyone seems so Lively. I don’t like to post photographs of people on this site without permission, However several thousand people of all types were scattered downtown.. you’ll just have to take my word on it.
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We seem to light up everything this time of year with a prism of effects.

Perhaps all the lights are as much to escape the darkness the North Easts Winter….
as it is to remain festive…
In any case this is my favorite time of the year here.

Lancaster County is predominately Protestant Christian with many denomination close to one and other. This is an important religious holiday for many. Although I do not follow organized religion, I’ve never felt excluded here.

Its a great time to get lost in the lights, crowd and seasonal atmosphere…
with a camera of course

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Senator Barack Obama held a rally yesterday at the Lancaster Train Station. With The Pennsylvania Primaries coming on Tuesday, Lots of supporters came out.

This is not a political website. But this is where I was Yesterday, with several thousand other Lancasterians.

Sen. Hillary Clinton was campaigning in York, Pa. Mean while Sen. Obama was here in Lancaster, with friend and respected Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey.
The weather was beautiful and the air was thick was excitement. and I kinda chuckled when a few young girls nearly swooned beside me. The Political issues are always the most important thing, however you cant underestimate the charisma of Obama, admits the very festive atmosphere.

The Rally included a local, proud veteran, some fine Lancaster Rock bands. Senator Bob Casey (middle right  second pane) talked briefly and stood in support of Obama.
Hootenanny singer Earl Pickens received a couple humorous Jeers for mispronouncing Lancaster (its pronounced LANG-kist-er). his performance was fun and engaging he is definitely worth checking out at is site: myspace/earlpickens.

the Senator from Illinois did pronounce “Lancaster” correctly and that is the most important thing (hehe).

Some overtime for these two fellows.
The Primary is on Tuesday Aprill 22nd. Vote early and vote often!

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Julia was part of America’s “Greatest Generation”. She was a poor child of the depression. She was an aspiring musician who played on a couple radio programs in the 1930s.( today I have her saxophones)

She joined the U.S army during WW2 and she was one of the first women stationed abroad in the U.S military.

Julia was a single mother who worked full time to raise her child. She became the first Female council woman of Lancaster City government, while raising her family and working full time.
My fondest memory of Grandma Julia was, when she took me too my first Philadelphia Phillies Baseball game. I was eight years old. (the worst memory of her is when she told me she had become an Atlanta Braves fan.. he)
Julia (1922 – 2007).
We finally got her favorite type of tree (weeping willow) tree…
planted spot on the Conestoga river. tomorrow is her Birthday.
Happy Birthday Grandma.

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Hillary Clinton will be at Millersville State University tomorrow evening.She is the first of the major candidate to do so.

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…The Download for the unofficial list of candidates in the Pennsylvania 2008 Primary….
i thought i’d pass on the link.

This link is for the PDF download (as with Adobe acrobat reader)

http://www.dos.state.pa.us/bcel/lib/bcel/elections/petition_filers.pdf
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click below for the HTML (viewed in your browser):

(VIEW HERE)

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This short list is updated and unofficial.

(this post has been re edited. It was a bit jumbled after i moved things around. The unofficial list is a neutral non-partisan list…sorry if it was confusing, before)