Matthew Lester joins us this week to talk about his professional photography in the healthcare and higher ed industries, his artistic iPhone photography, and what it’s like being a member of The Candy Factory, a new coworking space in Lancaster city.
We continue our conversation with the guys at The Tourist Trap, another Lancaster-based podcast.
Whereas last week we talked with Justin and Stephen about our personal lives, especially our religious lives, this week we talk specifically about podcasting in general and The Tourist Trap specifically.
Support for this episode of The Lancast has been provided by Lancaster County Art Association and Not Bad Design.
Another Lancaster-based podcast, The Tourist Trap, is hosted by Justin Carroll and Stephen Sarro, and the two of them join us this week to talk about one of their most common topics: religion. Most episodes of The Lancast focus on our guests’ public and professional lives, but in this episode we take the opportunity to get personal, each of us talking about our religious experiences as young adults.
It turns out that all four of us intentionally left the church in our early 20s, and then several years later have recommitted to being a part of a Christian church congregation. What drove us each out, and what drew us back? What has changed in our beliefs, and what have we held on to? That’s what our conversation is about.
As Daniel says in the opening of this episode, we recognize that all four of us are Protestant Christians, and we’re eager to learn about the religious experiences of others in the Lancaster community. So please leave your feedback in the comments below, or contact us (feedback@thelancast.com) if you’re interested in being a guest on the show for a future episode.
Justin and Stephen are great guys, and since we found a lot in common our recorded conversation went longer than an hour. We’re committed to our goal of half-hour shows, though, so we did a lot of editing to so that this episode comes in at 35 minutes.
We travel to record on location this week at The Wood Stove House, home of Jason Mundok. Jason is a musician who is constantly looking to take his musical experiences to new levels. This drive brought him to open up his home to host house concerts here in Lancaster.
Calling his home The Wood Stove House, after the prominent wood stove that sits on the stage area, Jason looks to bring artists from the local community and abroad to a intimate audience of about thirty. The Wood Stove House will be entering its second concert season this fall.
Wanting to bring his love for the arts to even more people and realizing the talent that was passing through his home, Jason turned to an outlet that he already had a love for, podcasting. Recording in his already established home studio, Around The Wood Stove was born. Sporting a very well polished production style reminiscent of NPR, Jason interviews musicians and artists about how they got started and the perils of their art.
Support for this episode of The Lancast has been provided by Lancaster County Art Association. We are proud to be supporting Team Sarcoma: Keepin’ it Kevin, a local initiative aiming to raise awareness for Sarcoma Cancers and to build funds to support the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative.
Theme music: Invisible Walls by Revolution Void Break music: Good Coffee Blues by Jason Mundok. Used by permission of the artist.
On this episode of the podcast we’re joined by Marie Cusick, a reporter for Blue Ridge Cable Channel 11 here in Lancaster County.
Marie talks about how she got into journalism after completing a degree in political science, where she sees the television news industry heading, and what inspired her to recently begin a series of reports on environmentally conscious activity in the Lancaster area, The Green Life with Marie.
If you missed it, Marie interviewed us first. This is just payback.
Support for this episode of The Lancast has been provided by Lancaster County Art Association. We are proud to be supporting Team Sarcoma: Keepin’ it Kevin, a local initiative aiming to raise awareness for Sarcoma Cancers and to build funds to support the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative.
Theme music: Invisible Walls by Revolution Void Break music: Like King Cool in a Sunbed by Kämmerer
We’re joined this week by Ryan and Dawn Bracken, proprietors of Folklore Coffee & Company in Elizabethtown. Their passion for coffee and for making their business work in E-town comes through loud and clear.
They talk about setting up shop in Elizabethtown, making great coffee, and bringing musical acts to their 10,000 square-foot space.
Support for this episode of The Lancast has been provided by Lancaster County Art Association.
Theme music: Invisible Walls by Revolution Void Break music: Like King Cool in a Sunbed by Kämmerer
Rusty Banks, Andy Babin, and Ryan Mast discuss the meaning of collaboration and ask what interactions artists should have with their local community.
Recently David had the idea of creating a video of a variety of musicians playing the pianos that Music for Everyone has placed around Lancaster City for the summer in a project they’re calling Keys for the City. Ryan and Andy shot the video and recorded the sound, Rusty composed original music and organized the pianists, and David is producing.
Rusty Banks is a composer and musician who, among other projects, provides music lessons here in Lancaster.
Andy Babin works alongside Ryan Mast as Meteor Tower‘s audio person.
Longtime friend of the podcast Christine Minnich stops by to talk about why she moved to Lancaster city and her love for history.
Christine is currently working on writing a book about the 200 years of her Elizabethtown church’s history. She also shared with us how she uses online ancestry tools to do research for her book and personal family tree.
We learned about how books are constructed and how Christine makes books by hand.
Chrstine has organized a concert of Hiram Ring and Nathaniel Tann at Bossler Mennonite Church the evening of June 26. More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
Support for this episode of The Lancast has been provided by Karlo Photography, Meteor Tower Films, PhotOlé, Lancaster County Art Association, and the Rumschpringe Short Film Festival, taking place June 4th and 5th at the Theater of the Seventh Sister.
Theme music: Invisible Walls by Revolution Void Break music: Dance of the Urbanite by Tryad
On May 11th, 2010 Marie Cusick reported a story on podcasting featuring The Lancast for Blue Ridge Cable TV news. They also interviewed Max Phillips from Creatively Wired, another podcast from Lancaster.
The interview with us took place at Penn Cinema during the recording of our latest episode with Penn Ketchum and Andy Tuzzino.
We took a vacation this week while our equipment was on loan to PAPA (Podcast for the Advanced Photo Amateur). We hope you enjoy this clip from our fifteen minuets of fame on Blue Ridge Cable TV. If you get some time check out PAPA and we’ll see you next week.
Ryan Dagan came to talk business. Instead, we goofed around for half an hour. Don’t worry, though—we snuck in some questions about the hard-pressing issues of our time.
We talk with Ryan about bicycling across the country to raise money for ALS, and his vision of forming a nonprofit to help others use that sort of outdoor adventure to raise money for causes they care about, in Lancaster County and beyond.
We’re still finding our voice and style with this podcast. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. Do you like the serious interviews or the goofy conversations? Some mix of the two? What kind of guests would you like to hear on future episodes?
Support for this episode of The Lancast has been provided by Karlo Photography, Meteor Tower Films, PhotOlé, Lancaster County Art Association, and the Rumschpringe Short Film Festival, taking place June 4th and 5th at the Theater of the Seventh Sister.
He will be teaching a one-day course, “Taking Photos with your iPhone,” on Saturday, Sept 25, at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. The cost to attend is $120.
It turns out that all four of us intentionally left the church in our early 20s, and then several years later have recommitted to being a part of a Christian church congregation. What drove us each out, and what drew us back? What has changed in our beliefs, and what have we held on to? That’s what our conversation is about.
Calling his home The Wood Stove House, after the prominent wood stove that sits on the stage area, Jason looks to bring artists from the local community and abroad to a intimate audience of about thirty. The Wood Stove House will be entering its second concert season this fall.
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