Daniel Klotz

Lancaster County, PA and the Cultural Creatives

Month: March, 2009

Lancaster County population tops half a million

New data out today from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that Lancaster County’s population officially topped the half-million mark last year. The county grew by 4,415 between July 2007 and July 2008, bumping it from 497,955 residents in 2007 to 502,370 in 2008. The increase is 0.9 percent in one year. From 2000 to 2008, [...]

Lancaster, PA tweetups are on a roll

Twelve of us had a second successful breakfast tweetup this morning at Prince Street Cafe. Lancaster, PA tweetups are on a roll The twelve of us were Jeff Geoghan, Kate Peteritas, Jeremy Walter, Bryan Coe, Jeff Rumm, Chad Hamilton, Shanelle Lee, Max Phillips, Paul Stoltzfus, Ryan Shen-Hoover, Joel Walker, and myself. We all made it [...]

Creative Writing in Lancaster

Here’s a poem fragment that merits reflection on a spring Sunday. It’s Franz Wright, reflecting on his baptism That insane asshole is dead I drowned him and he’s not coming back. I’m trying to write more like him—spare and contemplative yet rich and bristling with action. Today I met up with Susan Pogorzelski (20orsomething on [...]