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Why Lancaster: Kevin Ressler
08.24.09 // Posted in Lancaster, Why Lancaster
During the month of August we will be posting answers to the question WHY LANCASTER?
Kevin Ressler lives and works in downtown Lancaster. He is a co-founder of The Doplic Project.
Why Lancaster?
Ask me Why Lancaster in person and I will fill you with stories and ideas and plans. Let me be honest, there is much to love about Lancaster, but first we must battle perception. It is a town in constant combat. There are battle lines between the historically rich and the historically poor and they can be seen drawn horizontally down King Street and encircling the city limits. It goes from race to politics to economic opportunity. There are far too many slum lords who live in the county and blame their tenants for properties they never intended to upkeep.
I grew up here, first in the city then right on the outskirts in a suburban neighborhood. A girlfriend of mine and I once traveled through the city from East to West in order to get to the movie theater. When we hit the city limits she locked her doors and I immediately asked me why. She said, “There are black peop…” and she stopped realizing she was speaking prejudice and stereotypes to her mixed-race boyfriend. I still consider her a beloved friend, she now lives in the city and has for years. To this day she has yet to be robbed, maimed, or have had any other vindications for her preconceptions.
This is not a story to say there is no crime, there are no problems. They exist. Just like in the suburbs, just like in the country. When we recognize that the majority of poverty exists in rural America to whites not inner cities to minorities, then we recognize that there are better reasons to move to a place than the foolishness of fear.
Lancaster is where you can dream. The advantage of the bigotry of fools works to the advantages of sages. The house prices in the city are half that of outside for comparable space. The business opportunities are begging. And there is a drive to educate, culturize, and communicate. People in the city are more positive than in the county about development and the prosperities of the future.
I moved back after college and a stint living in hipster San Francisco which I loved but found ultimately unsatisfying long term. I work at Community First Fund, one of the top for Community Development Financial Institutions in the country, as an AmeriCorps trying to figure out and learn the ropes of community development. Because when I leave, I want to start something innovative where people can gather to share their talents and sit in appreciation of the talents of others from music to theater to art and all forms of culture. While I wait, I study the works of others and what you find is that it is everywhere, people are abuzz because we have what others don’t.
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Lancaster has everything one looks for in “the next big thing” be it Portland or Pittsburgh or Austin except for an abundance of people who chase the tails of innovators. Here is a place ripe for people like me who want to create, who want to make, who want to start, who want to build. You don’t have to blend in here, you can stand out. You don’t have to follow, you can lead. It’s happening; it hasn’t already happened. We are on the upside in the oldest landlocked city for a day. Even New York can’t claim to have been capital of the USA for a day.
Kevin Ressler wasn’t born in Lancaster, but he grew up here from the time he was 6 months old. After a Hate-Hate relationship with it, he has travelled the world and America and formed a Love-Love relationship with it realizing “If you can do anything anywhere else, you can do it wherever your feet are firmly found.”
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