Deena shared with me a local blog of interest called The Weekly Share.

It's a blog that relates one family's experiences with a CSA - a community-supported agriculture program - in particular, Goldfinch Farm near Wrightsville.

I had heard of CSAs before - in fact, a good friend of mine belongs to one outside Spring Grove - but I didn't know a whole lot about them.

So it was really interesting to read The Weekly Share and see how it works. (Oh, and check out the zucchini recipes - you'll remember I bought some zucchini the other day at Brown's!)

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In our ongoing summer quest, we spent an evening last week up at Pinchot Park, planning to look for the three letterboxes hidden there.

We only got to do two, because it ended up getting dark (boo!), but we had a great time. This time, we brought Big!Fluffy!Dog! (also known as Coby) and let him "hunt" with us. Poor thing. He's very furry, and he got VERY hot and lazy about halfway through, but he was a good sport.

During our second excursion at Pinchot, the letterbox clues indicated we'd pass a rock shaped like a big cube. Never a family to resist a challenge, we (OK, they) climbed on up! (The top of the rock was about even with my shoulders, so I stayed on the ground with the trusty cameraphone to be the recording secretary.)

First, we had hubby plus dog (THAT was an adventure, getting 90+ pounds of dog up there!)

Then, the girl joined in...

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I mentioned my daughter's work in the letterboxing challenge sponsored by the libraries, the local parks and Keystone Activity Zone.

Well, on Sunday, we were out at the Book Nook Bonanza at York Suburban Middle School - brought home four new boxes of books, yay! - but, after lunch at Perkins, we figured we'd check out some of the eastern York County parks, as we don't often get out to that end of town.

So, that's where Sarah got her first two letterboxing stamps - and learned some bug facts from her logbook - one at Springettsbury Township Park and the other at Rocky Ridge.

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Historic Wrightsville is holding its 33rd annual Olde Towne Night at 7 p.m. April 5 at the Locust Street Methodist Church, 314 Locust St. in Wrightsville.

The group invites you to bring a covered-dish dessert, but publicist and virtual friend of mine Bob Schmidt assures me you should still come "even if you’re unable to bring a dessert." The desserts will be enjoyed during the program by speaker Rob Evans, a local artist and son of Historic Wrightsville life members June and Warren Evans.

He has a studio upstairs in the John Wright Factory Store and will be presenting a PowerPoint on “Visions of the Susquehanna” featuring artwork along the river. The show will look at artists who have painted the Susquehanna River through history, including a painting by Benjamin West on the river in Wrightsville made in 1767.

I know it's a little early to start thinking about April events, but with Easter coming up, I wanted to make sure I got the word out now!

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It's amazing the number of things we see online about Yorkers doing cool stuff (former Yorkers, too, but we all know once you are one, it's for life).

Here are just a few.

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Found while surfing Flickr:

Some scenic views of York County by Flickr user Veender, of Lancaster County.

I especially like his restored cabin near Hallam and fields outside Jefferson.

(If you know of someone who's taking York County photos or video, let me know, because I'd love to share via the blog.)

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Next in a series of profiles originally published by the Daily Record in 2002, from Census 2000 information.

Welcome to East Prospect, founded in 1735. Notable there? At the time of the census, everyone in the borough was a U.S. native. There were only four municipalities in the county for which that was true; the others were Felton, Goldsboro and Lewisberry.

Up next will be Warrington Township!

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Next in a series of profiles originally published by the Daily Record in 2002, from Census 2000 information.

Welcome to Yorkana, which had the smallest population in the county at 239 as of the 2000 Census. That's a big change from last week's profile of Springettsbury Township, which had the second-highest population in the county at 23,883.

Up next will be Hanover!

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Jenn Ratcliffe, an employee at Boardwalks in Springettsbury Township, carries homemade pizza to the dinner crowd in March.

I ended up pulling out an "It used to be..." on the Exchangers, because we started talking about where Boardwalks used to be (the shopping center closer to town on East Market, where the Red Lobster and Lowe's are), as well as what Boardwalks used to be (part of the Ledo Pizza franchise.)

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Next in a series of profiles originally publishes by the Daily Record in 2002, from Census 2000 information.

Welcome to Springettsbury Township, which, as of the 2000 Census, had the second-highest population in the county at 23,883, behind only the City of York, which had 40,862.

Up next will be Yorkana!

Posted in Central/Eastern Welcome to York York City/Suburban

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