Lancaster County Event Calendar
Things to do in Lancaster County

Distelfink Country Christmas is a Unique Juried Craft Show featuring Locally Handcrafted items. The perennial theme is country/primitive, with over fifty quality vendors displaying tremendous art and craft pieces. Visitors are guaranteed to be charmed and delighted by the quaint wreaths, baskets, gourds, needle felting, pottery, candles, stenciling and decorative paintings. Handmade ornaments are for sale as well as felt and wool sewn Christmas trimmings and décor, and candies.
Information: www.DistelfinkCrafters.org or call 717-228-0905.

Are you looking for a fun date night, family night, or just feel like doing something creative? Try pottery painting for a cause! Friday nights in November, join us at ClayHouse Arts Studio in Manheim, PA for a one-hour pottery painting session. A portion of each ticket sold will be donated to Live Like LIbby, a nonprofit organization in honor of 10 year-old dancer Libby Miller, who died in a car accident in February 2022. Live Like Libby provides scholarships to dancers with financial needs.

“Persuasion: A New Play Inspired by Jane Austen” will be performed within the candlelit rooms of the circa 1794 General Edward Hand Mansion at Historic Rock Ford on November 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 and 23 at 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM. This one-act play, adapted by Sam Slaymaker from “Persuasion” by Jane Austen, and directed by Rachel Faust, is intended to provide audiences with the flavor of Austen’s work and wit within the setting of a true Georgian Mansion.

“Persuasion” relates the story of Anne Elliot, an aristocratic young lady who declines marrying Captain Frederick Wentworth at a youthful age even though she deeply loves him. After a period of seven years, Anne and Wentworth meet again and must resolve their complex feelings through a series of encounters that will be highlighted in the play. “Persuasion” was Austen’s final complete novel and has often been cited as her most insightful and mature work.