Author: Crispin Sartwell

I live about 25 minutes south of Carlisle, in a rehabbed one-room schoolhouse. I think it’s an incredibly beautiful area, and it’s just what you picture when you picture the good side of rural America: either a cliche or a paradigm, or both, a country song or a Wyeth painting. What’s most interesting about the whole region – Bendersville to Dillsburg to East Berlin to Gettysburg to Biglerville, with York Springs in the middle – is that it’s half white and half Latino, more or less. It is a fascinating and functional and developing multi-ethnic culture, blooming like an...