This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague Jim McTake, who lives in Lancaster County,

Keystone State, Pennsylvania.

The momentary news is that the Trump campaign is coming to town. I asked him about downtown Lancaster.

Has it transformed since I saw wonderful still photographs of marching high school bands

and veterans marching in 1940 before the Wars, 41.

And what is it today?

And Jim describes a vibrant and growing city, Lancaster City inside Lancaster County.

After the election, after the politics are done, this looks like a prosperous and well-imagined future.

Jim McTeague on Lancaster City,

inside Lancaster County, inside the Keystone State.

More of this later.

It has.

It's, you know, there's a lot of investment down there.

It's a walkable city.

It's a kind of city that, like a Boise, Idaho, that, you know, your millennials and the

Generation Z and whatever would really like. There's millions going into retirement high rises as well.

There's an influx of money.

And there's an entrepreneurial spirit.

A lot of younger people are opening restaurants and retail outlets and there's I was in the art vault today which is a

studio that's modeled after the torpedo factory in Alexandria, Virginia,

which is a place where local artists, rent space and set up shop.

So it's becoming pretty hip.

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