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A Lititz couple opened a gift shop on South Broad Street on Saturday, and 10% of every sale goes to a foundation they started in memory of Dan Fisher's daughter.
Plus a square dance tonight with a live string band, two Revolution history talks tomorrow, a string quartet premiere on Gallery Row, and a Jane Austen-inspired play staged room by room in a circa-1794 mansion.
In today's Lancaster Local:
A new Lititz gift shop that gives back
A square dance tonight, no experience needed
Two Revolution history talks on Wednesday
Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" opens in Marietta
COMMUNITY NEWS
A Lititz couple opened a gift shop Saturday that gives 10% of every sale to a local foundation.
Ever-Change Refined Gifts & Accents opened Saturday, October 24, at 243 South Broad Street in Lititz, two blocks south of downtown.
The owners, Dan and Tricia Fisher, ran Majik Rent to Own, a local furniture, appliance and electronics business, for years.
When they sold it, they gave a significant portion of the proceeds to the Maria Fisher Foundation, which they started in memory of Dan's daughter, Maria. "Some businesses are built from opportunity," they write on the shop's website. "Ours was built from love."
Now 10% of every purchase at Ever-Change goes to that foundation. "Ten percent felt right," the Fishers wrote in August.
It applies to every purchase, every time, with no exceptions.
The Lititz-based foundation supports nonprofits that help young people "discover their strengths, build self-worth, and pursue purposeful futures." Among them are Girls on the Run Lancaster-Lebanon, Milagro House and Instruments of Christ Haiti.
The shop has about a dozen departments, from baby and bridal to culinary, pet, and soaps and skin care.
Its makers range from By Candlelight, which hand-pours soy candles at Kitchen Kettle Village, to a fair-trade family workshop in Nicaragua that makes clay luminaries.
There's even a Lititz Fire Company ladder truck Christmas ornament, designed by Lititz artist Bill Dussinger, with a portion of every sale going to the fire company.
Ever-Change is open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and closed Sunday.
The shop says there's free parking behind its building.
EVENTS
🤠 Lancaster Square Dance — West Art, 816 Buchanan Avenue, Lancaster.
Tuesday, October 27, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
West Art's monthly square dance, held the fourth Tuesday of each month.
The Hootin' Annie's play live while JW Neilsen calls the dances.
No experience needed, and West Art says to bring your dancing shoes and cowboy hats.
The suggested donation is $10 to $20.
🇺🇸 "The Frank Brothers and The American Revolution" — Historic Rock Ford, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster.
Wednesday, October 28, 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Shirley L. Green tells the story of her ancestors, William and Benjamin Frank, two brothers who enlisted in the Second Rhode Island Regiment during the Revolutionary War.
She's the author of Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence, and the talk is part of Rock Ford's Untold Stories of the Revolution Lecture Series.
It's in the Langmuir Education Room on the first floor of the Rock Ford Barn.
Admission is $10, or $5 for Rock Ford members.
⚒️ "Colonial and Early Ironworks" — Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 167 East Main Street, Ephrata.
Wednesday, October 28, 7:00 p.m.
Historian and author Dan Graham talks about the vital role of Pennsylvania's iron industry in Colonial America, and the key role ironmasters played in the success of the Revolution.
Free and open to the public.
🎨 Lancaster Art History Panel — West Art, 816 Buchanan Avenue, Lancaster.
Thursday, October 29, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The Demuth Museum of Art hosts a panel discussion in West Art's Sanctuary on the artists, patrons and businesses that have helped shape Lancaster's arts scene.
It's free and open to all, and the museum appreciates an RSVP.
🎻 Quartet Harriet Premieres "The Hope" — Olivia's Fine Art, 140 North Prince Street, Lancaster.
Thursday, October 29. Doors at 5:00 p.m., music at 5:15 p.m.
A new string quartet written for Olivia's Fine Art.
Its composer writes that it began with a First Friday visit this summer, when Olivia Stoltzfus was weaving at the back of her new gallery.
The piece is built on the idea of weaving, with the cello as the warp and the two violins and viola as the weft.
Quartet Harriet plays the premiere in the gallery.
Free-will offering.
🦉 Night Hike — Lancaster County Central Park, Muhlenberg Meadow parking lot, 548 Golf Road, Lancaster.
Wednesday, November 4, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Naturalist Katie Kruza leads a walk in the woods after dark.
The group will call for owls, look for nocturnal animals and use black lights to see nature glowing in the dark.
Bring a flashlight if you like.
All ages.
It's $2 per person, and you need to register and prepay by Tuesday, November 3, online or at 717-295-2055.
🎭 "Merrily We Roll Along" — Susquehanna Stage, 133 West Market Street, Marietta.
Opens Friday, November 6, at 7:30 p.m., and runs through November 15.
Susquehanna Stage opens Stephen Sondheim's musical, directed by Kevin Ditzler.
The theater calls it a bittersweet musical that "rewinds the lives of three friends, tracing their journey from jaded success back to their starry-eyed beginnings." Tickets are $27 for adults and $20 for children under 18.
📖 "Persuasion" — Historic Rock Ford, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster.
Friday, November 6, shows at 7:00 and 8:30 p.m.
A one-act play inspired by Jane Austen's novel, adapted for Rock Ford by Samuel Slaymaker and performed in the first-floor rooms of the circa 1794 General Hand Mansion.
Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth meet again seven years after she declined to marry him.
Audiences are limited to 15 guests per show, and you'll stand and move from room to room with the action.
More shows run November 7, 13, 14 and 21, plus November 22 at 2:00 and 3:30 p.m.
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