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Long's Park Art & Craft Festival
Lancaster, PA · Arts & Culture
- When
- September 3–5, 2027
- Where
- Long's Park · Lancaster · PA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Long's Park fills with about 200 juried fine artists and craftspeople each Labor Day weekend, drawing roughly 13,000 visitors to what is regularly ranked among the best outdoor art festivals in the country. The Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation, a nonprofit, has presented the festival for decades to support arts programming in Lancaster. Live music plays on the amphitheater stage throughout the weekend.
The history within reach
Long's Park fills with about 200 juried fine artists and craftspeople each Labor Day weekend, drawing roughly 13,000 visitors to what is regularly ranked among the best outdoor art festivals in the country.
- Buchanan's Wheatland1.4 mi
The only president from Pennsylvania and the only one never to marry ran his campaign from this brick house without leaving it, which was then normal.
The congressman who drove the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and wanted confiscated plantations broken up and given to freedmen chose a small cemetery for his grave because the larger ones in Lancaster were restricted to white burials.
Congress fled Philadelphia ahead of Howe's army, stopped here on 27 September, sat for a single day, decided the Susquehanna was a better barrier than the Conestoga, and moved on to York.
Frontiersmen from Paxton rode into a peaceful Conestoga village and killed six people, then broke into the Lancaster workhouse where the surviving fourteen had been put for protection and killed them too, in daylight, in the middle of town.