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Fifty years ago, Lancaster was a very different place than it is today.
There was no Long’s Park amphitheater, no Gallery Row and the Fulton had barely survived being turned into a parking lot.
If you loved concerts, art shows, dance recitals or children’s shows, your options were few and far between.
But the Lancaster Summer Arts Festival, which officially got started 50 years ago this summer, began to change all that.
What had been a large, blank wall outside the Spanish American Civic Association’s El Centro Hispano has become a reflection of the community.
Pictured on a new mural, the installation of which was completed last week, are depictions of 28 people. Some of them work inside the center that serves Lancaster city’s Hispanic community. Some of them helped establish SACA, and some helped establish the city’s Hispanic community six decades ago.
“It’s a record,” Carlos Graupera, SACA executive director, said of the 30-foot tall mural. “It’s a way to respect what happened in this community.”
Graupera, whose image is at the far end of the painted fabric mural, said the depictions include people who came to Lancaster from Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. It also includes many who were born in Lancaster of immigrant parents.
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