Good morning, Lancaster County.
This week: a new Italian restaurant in a Mount Joy building first licensed as a tavern in 1818, a free weekend of open galleries in Lancaster city, and a Grammy-winning tabla player at the Ware Center.
In today's Lancaster Local:
A Mount Joy building with an original horse trough out front has a new restaurant
A Tuesday-morning photography class among the Railroad Museum's locomotives
Lancaster city's free Fall Art Walk, with a $250 scavenger hunt
A Grammy-winning tabla maestro at the Ware Center on Sunday
COMMUNITY NEWS
The horse trough out front is original.
The building at 905 West Main Street in Mount Joy has been welcoming guests for more than two centuries.
Now it has a new name: Amore, an Italian kitchen and bar.
After a soft-launch weekend, Amore set Monday, October 5, as the start of its regular hours, and it now says it is "officially fully open."
According to the restaurant, records trace the building back to 1818, when it was first licensed as a tavern stand in the village then known as Springville.
The original spring-fed horse trough still stands out front, which Amore calls "a rare survivor from Lancaster County's early tavern era."
Over the years, the building carried on as a neighborhood gathering place under different names, most recently as The Watering Trough.
The kitchen focuses on house-made pasta and wood-fired entrées.
The wood-fired pizza oven stayed with the building. "Refreshed, restored, and ready to fire up," the restaurant posted.
Every great family has a story, Amore says, and its own "begins right here in Mount Joy."
The restaurant's posted hours are 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day except Tuesday.
EVENTS
📷 Railroad Photography: Making the Most of Autumn Foliage and Light — Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, 300 Gap Road, Strasburg.
Tuesday, October 13, 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Railroad photographer Brian Solomon teaches working with autumn foliage and natural light, plus composition.
Bring a smartphone, digital camera or film camera.
The hands-on part includes photographing locomotives in the museum's collection, among them PRR steam locomotive No. 7002.
$25 per person.
The class is limited to 25 people and is designed for beginning photographers ages 18 and over.
🤠 Vincent Neil Emerson — Tellus360, 24 East King Street, Lancaster.
Thursday, October 15. Doors 7:00 p.m., show 8:00 p.m.
Emerson's fourth album, Blue Stars, brings together the country, folk and Americana sounds of his first three records.
With guest Hayden Redwine.
Advance general admission standing tickets are $23.74, including fees.
21 and up.
🌹 Box of Rain: Essential Grateful Dead '68–'74 — Mickey's Black Box, 101 Rock Lititz Boulevard, Lititz.
Friday, October 16. Doors 7:00 p.m., show 8:00 p.m.
A six-piece tribute to the Grateful Dead's 1968–1974 era, with a revolving lineup that includes former members of Dark Star Orchestra, Living Earth, Zen Tricksters and Dead On Live.
General admission standing room is $31.60 plus fees, and reserved balcony and mezzanine seats are $36.75 plus fees, with $5 added to day-of-show purchases.
All ages; 21 and up with valid ID to drink.
🎺 Dr. Harmonica & Rockett 88 — Zoetropolis, 112 N. Water Street, Lancaster.
Friday, October 16, 7:30 p.m.
A five-piece Delaware band playing rockabilly, Chicago blues, New Orleans funk, R&B and originals.
Rockett 88 has logged more than 3,000 shows between New York City and Virginia.
$15 in advance.
🎨 Lancaster City Fall Art Walk — Galleries, museums and pop-up spaces across Lancaster city.
Saturday, October 17, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday, October 18, noon to 4:00 p.m. Free.
Stroll the city's galleries, museums and pop-up artist spaces, with live demonstrations from local and regional artists.
New this year is a scavenger hunt: pick up a map and scavenger hunt sheet at most participating galleries, get at least 20 answers right, and drop your sheet in a designated box for a chance to win a $250 voucher toward a purchase of $250 or more at any Lancaster City Art Collective member gallery.
A few locations keep shorter hours or are closed Sunday, which is marked on the map.
🪘 Sandeep Das: Raga, Rhythm, and Rasa — Steinman Hall, The Ware Center, 42 N. Prince Street, Lancaster.
Sunday, October 18, 2:00 p.m.
Grammy-winning tabla maestro and Guggenheim Fellow Sandeep Das plays an intimate chamber concert exploring the Navarasa, the emotional sentiments of Indian classical music.
You can sit onstage on a cushion or a comfortable chair, or in the spaced-out auditorium seating.
Adults $25, students $17.
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Mostly cloudy today, with a chance of rain before 8:00 a.m. and a high near 75.
Tonight is partly cloudy and down around 56.
Tuesday is mostly sunny and 80, and Wednesday is sunny and 78.
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— The Lancaster Local