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Lancaster Refugees (HH337/01)
The British Broadcasting Company recognizes Lancaster, PA as the refugee capital of the United States. Liz Bierly investigated refugees and their impact on our county.
RadicalHospitality Trailer 2018
Radical Hospitality is the first in a trilogy of films by Amanda Chemeche, documenting the experiences of a displaced Southeast Asian community as they adapt themselves to a new home. This first film follows a group of refugees as they are inducted into an Old Order Mennonite church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The Karen, an ethnic minority group living on the Thai-Myanmese border, have fought a protracted civil war against the military government of Myanmar for nearly eight decades in hopes of creating their own nation. Fleeing persecution but looking to maintain their culture and identity, the community finds an unlikely partner in Habecker Church, home to an aging congregation in rural Pennsylvania. Set against a backdrop of anti-refugee protests, heated political debate, and the Lancaster countryside, the two groups strive to create a new community as they seek common ground between their radically distinct cultures. The film asks its audience: “As Americans, what is our responsibility to the refugees that come to our homes? How do we locate groups such as the Karen within our broader cultural landscape?”
30 Years of Welcome: CWS Lancaster
In September of 2017, CWS Lancaster celebrated 30 years of service for refugees in Lancaster County PA. Take a look at this video which tells the story of refugees in Lancaster and the refugee work of CWS.
Thank you to Aurora Films and the Islamic Community Center of Lancaster for making this video project possible.
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Lancaster County restaurant offers chance to refugees
Jere Gish visits a Lancaster County restaurant trying a different business model. Subscribe to WGAL on YouTube for more:
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Nursing homes accused of neglect and negligence
Some nursing homes in the Susquehanna Valley are accused of neglect and negligence by the State Attorney General's Office. News 8's Matt Barcaro lays out the complaints. Subscribe to WGAL on YouTube for more:
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Lancaster County group working to get homeless veterans off the streets
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Elizabeth Farms Christmas Trees, Lititz, Pennsylvania - aerial drone footage
It’s December, and that means it’s time to choose the perfect Christmas tree! Thank you, Elizabeth Farms, for letting us capture aerial footage of this holiday tradition!
Lancaster County council works to fight heroin use
A Lancaster County council is trying to bring people together in the fight against heroin. Subscribe to WGAL on YouTube for more:
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Pumpkin Farms are Great for Agritourism
Prairie Garden Adventure Farm offers everything from pumpkin painting and live music to home cooked food and a haunted house, not to mention the petting zoo and elaborate corn maze. This family business is a great example of farmers finding innovative and fun ways of adding revenue to the family farm.
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring a Native American hero. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography found in his poem were the Ojibwe Chief Kahge-ga-gah-bowh during their visits at Longfellow's home; Black Hawk and other Sac and Fox Indians Longfellow encountered on Boston Common; Algic Researches (1839) and additional writings by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an ethnographer and United States Indian agent; and Heckewelder's Narratives. In sentiment, scope, overall conception, and many particulars, Longfellow's poem is a work of American Romantic literature, not a representation of Native American oral tradition. Longfellow insisted, I can give chapter and verse for these legends. Their chief value is that they are Indian legends.
Longfellow had originally planned on following Schoolcraft in calling his hero Manabozho, the name in use at the time among the Ojibwe of the south shore of Lake Superior for a figure of their folklore, a trickster-transformer. But in his journal entry for June 28, 1854, he wrote, Work at 'Manabozho;' or, as I think I shall call it, 'Hiawatha'—that being another name for the same personage. Hiawatha was not another name for the same personage (the mistaken identification of the trickster figure was made first by Schoolcraft and compounded by Longfellow), but a probable historical figure associated with the founding of the League of the Iroquois, the Five Nations then located in present-day New York and Pennsylvania. Because of the poem, however, Hiawatha became the namesake for towns, schools, trains and a telephone company in the western Great Lakes region, where no Iroquois nations historically resided.
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Group offers elective Bible class to public schoolchildren
A group in the Susquehanna Valley is offering public school children an elective class about the Bible, and the course is growing in popularity. LINK: Bible 2 School. Subscribe to WGAL on YouTube for more:
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Study analyzes demographics of business ownership in Lancaster
A new study is shedding more light on the state of businesses in Lancaster. Subscribe to WGAL on YouTube for more:
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Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Chambersburg is a borough in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is 13 miles miles north of Maryland and the Mason-Dixon line and 52 miles southwest of Harrisburg in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley. Chambersburg is the county seat of Franklin County. According to the United States Census Bureau the 2010 population was 20,268. When combined with the surrounding Greene, Hamilton, and Guilford Townships, the population of Greater Chambersburg is 52,273. Chambersburg is at the core of the Chambersburg, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area which includes surrounding Franklin County. The population of the Chambersburg Micropolitan Area in 2010 was 149,618.
Chambersburg's settlement began in 1730 when water mills were built at the confluence of Conococheague Creek and Falling Spring Creek that now run through the center of the town. Its history includes episodes related to the French and Indian War, the Whiskey Rebellion, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and the American Civil War. The borough was the only major northern community burned down by Confederate forces during the war.
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'A Week Away' gives patients a break from treatment
A program started by Caleb Walker aims to give patients a mini-vacation. Subscribe to WGAL on YouTube for more:
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Karen Chorus
Staff member Gin Sum and his sister Esther performed with their chorus made up of Karen refugees at our 4th Annual Refugee Thanksgiving
Blind therapy dog still giving
Pet Therapy is popular at many retirement homes and in Lancaster County, one Golden Retriever is getting as much as he's giving. Subscribe to WGAL on YouTube for more:
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