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REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Michael C. Upton Story Sponsor: GOOD’S INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. 20 Trinity Drive #100 • Leola, PA 17540 (717) 661-6100 • goodsinsuranceagency.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/M2bWSJ3EiJQ"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/DennyOneWolf.mp3"] Amidst feathered dream catchers and the sweet smell of new leather, I sat down across from Denny One Wolf in his Willow Street gift shop. A chief of the Métis Nation of the ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  PAUL DAVIS 1816 Olde Homestead Ln. • Lancaster, PA 17601 (717) 291-6000 • www.PDR-PA.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/rgI7TmbXbmk"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/KellyErickson.mp3"] “I remember being on morphine and asking a doctor, ‘How rare am I? And he’s like, ‘You’re pretty rare.’ And I’m like, ‘No, really… how rare am I? You need to tell me.’ He’s ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Michael C. Upton Story Sponsor:  ALL THINGS BUSINESS LLC 2148 Embassy Drive • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 431-2023 • www.allthingsbusiness.biz [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/pu147s2HbFE"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/KadenStetler.mp3"] “Homelessness always bugged me.” In January, Kaden Stetler was sitting in his Lancaster apartment watching an episode of the animated TV show Star Wars Rebels with a friend. The specific episode detailed the heroics of ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  HINKLE INSURANCE AGENCY INC. 600 Olde Hickory Road, Suite 200 • Lancaster, PA 17601 (717) 560-9733 • www.hinkleinsurance.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/mxasIbfFqfM"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EllenSmoll.mp3"] “You don’t ever expect it to happen to you,” says Ellen Smoll, as she sits on the sofa in her Ephrata home. “Immediately, I jumped in the car and drove like ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  BOMBERGER’S 6555 Furnace Hills Pike • Lititz, PA 17543  (717) 626-3333 • www.bombergers.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/AEV2Zrprc7E"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ConnorGilbertson.mp3"] As far as kids go, Connor Gilbertson quite simply rocks. A student at Warwick’s John R. Bonfield Elementary School in Lititz, the dapper sixth grader (who loves to sport his signature bow-tie) has done more to ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Michael C. Upton Story Sponsor:  GREG ORTH’S SANDLER TRAINING 1175 Manheim Pike, Suite B • Lancaster, PA 17601 (717) 459-3445 • www.thincbox.sandler.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/c1LqwIIY5ks"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/LorynSpanglerJones.mp3"] Like Icarus, son of Daedalus—the mythological craftsman and artist—maybe she flew too close to the sun. The sun in this metaphor being the combined social consciousness of a conservative audience, which turned ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Michael C. Upton Story Sponsor:  ZIG’S BAKERY & CAFE 800 East Newport Road • Lititz, PA 17543 (717) 626-7981 • www.zigsbakery.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/uCaEjLJdJIA"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/KenHudson.mp3"] As an eight-year-old boy, Ken Hudson loved to see the fire trucks responding to calls in his Philadelphia neighborhood of Carroll Park—so much so, that he took it upon himself to bring the ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor: SPA LA VIE 3031 Columbia Avenue • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 295-4523 • www.spalavielancaster.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/X-5vq8WchQM"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/TheresaFackler.mp3"] “I was at the lowest point of where anybody should be, to the point where the only reason I stayed here on Earth is because of my daughter.” These harrowing words begin the phoenix-from-the-ashes tale ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Michael C. Upton Story Sponsor:  TELLUS360 24 East King Street • Lancaster, PA 17602 (717) 393-1660 • www.tellus360.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/fmdFr7AP0-g"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ReveloMagazine3Podcast-SergioVigilatoV2-0.mp3"] “Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it’s been.” – Truckin’, The Grateful Dead. (Words by Robert Hunter; music by Garcia, Lesh, Weir) While sitting down with an animated and excitable subject in a North Queen ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  ALL STATE: MOYER INSURANCE 2819 A. Willow Street Pike North • Willow Street, PA 17584 (717) 464-1600 • www.allstate.com/frannmoyer [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/fkrNx5lDce0"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/LancasterFarmSanctuary.mp3"] As they walk around the grounds of their home, stopping to tell stories about the colorful personalities of the animals who cross their path, it’s clear that Jonina Turzi and ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  SALON ENSO 245 Centerville Road Suite 6 • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 435-9374 • www.salonenso.net [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/-zYjJ5pMyaQ"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/CodySmith.mp3"] “I’m Lancaster proud... I’m hometown Lancaster proud,” beams Cody Smith. “I love what’s been going on in downtown Lancaster—the resurgence, all the art. Lancaster is an amazing place to live. I’m so proud that ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Michael C. Upton Story Sponsor:  OOH LA LA CONSIGNMENT 3014 Columbia Avenue • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 391-8223 • www.oohlalaconsignmentlanc.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/1jwkoQxD12E"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/AngeliaReed.mp3"] If you see a city tree this winter, or a light post or railing wrapped up in handmade scarves or adorned with crocheted hats—it is a sure sign The Yarn Bomber, a.k.a. Angelia Reed, ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  ARGIRES MAROTTI 233 College Avenue, Suite 201 • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 358-0800 • www.argiresmarotti.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/PxCOjJkDbt8"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ReveloMag3Podcast-OrlandoVegaV2-0.mp3"] “I was a hopeless case. By all intents and purposes, I should either be doing life in prison, or I should’ve been dead a long time ago. But for some reason, I’m still here… ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Michael C. Upton Story Sponsor:  QUANTUM DYNAMIX 480 New Holland Ave, Suite 8201 • Lancaster, PA 17602 (717) 431-6681 • www.quantumdynamix.net [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/gt_sUv3DDPU"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/GinaBaum.mp3"] It is an awesome feat for anyone to rappel off the 11-story Ruoff Tower in Lancaster. It’s an amazing achievement for Gina Baum. “I decided not to rappel in the wheelchair, but rappel like ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  GOOD SPIRITS 1741 Hempstead Road • Lancaster, PA 17601 (717) 371-4849 • www.goodspiritslancaster.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/c4byJukIKos"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/MalikRhodes.mp3"] Malik Rhodes doesn’t like to be put into specific boxes. From childhood, the artist and musician has always felt… a little outside of normal descriptions. For starters, Malik identifies as non-binary: “When we’re growing up, we’re ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  LANCO FEDERAL CREDIT UNION 349 West Roseville Road • Lancaster, PA 17601 (717) 569-7180 • www.lancofcu.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/o5TcL4C9KBM"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/KimGantz.mp3"] The night Kimberly Gantz’s husband Collins (nicknamed Boobie) came home after having ankle surgery, he had a dream that Kim won’t ever forget. It was lucid dreaming, she says. “He just kept saying ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Michael C. Upton Story Sponsor:  HORSE INN 540 East Fulton Street • Lancaster, PA 17602 (717) 392-5528 • www.horseinnlancaster.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/6EIe40dsN0w"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/RayZor.mp3"] Anyone could be hard pressed to imagine how a black leather-clad punk rocker with a mohawk fashioned from Troll dolls and a dyed blue goatee grew up in the corn-surrounded town of New Holland—home of ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  THE FRIDGE 534 North Mulberry Street • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 490-6825 • www.beerfridgelancaster.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/G4_KIyDeHUw"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ChristiAlbert.mp3"] Light pours into the huge storefront windows on the corner of Shippen and New Streets in downtown Lancaster as Christi Albert sits behind what will be the checkout counter of her new holistic wellness shop, ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  ACUITY ADVISORS AND CPAS 454 New Holland Avenue, Suite 200 • Lancaster, PA 17602 (717) 239-5180 • www.acuitycpas.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/XXnNxzD7oYg"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/TravisOswald.mp3"] “You wouldn’t know I had a mental illness if you met me,” says Travis Oswald, sitting at the dining room table in his Mt. Joy home. And he’s right. Personable, outgoing, ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  RESTORE HYPER WELLNESS + CRYOTHERAPY 100 Rohrerstown Road Building 6, Suite A, • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 490-6211 • www.restorecryotherapy.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/dcgpjML6g7o"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/JaimieAmes.mp3"] From the time she was 14 years old, Jaimie Ames knew she wanted to be in the military. She was hoping to end up in the CIA or FBI, ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  HACC, CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA’S COMMUNITY COLLEGE 1641 Old Philadelphia Pike • Lancaster, PA 17602 1-800-ABC-HACC • www.hacc.edu [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/NTuupcbp6MU"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/MichaelAzzalina.mp3"] For many people, teenage years are difficult. But as Michael Azzalina explains from behind his assistant principal’s desk at Price Elementary, his teenage years were literally life altering. Born into a large Italian ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor:  WOMB WITH A VIEW 3047 Columbia Avenue • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 394-4447 • www.wombwithaview.com [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/gbz8mhp8EnI"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/SarahMcCann.mp3"] “Essentially I was dying and didn’t know it,” says Sarah McCann, sitting under the pergola in the backyard of her gorgeous Quarryville home. Surrounded by protected farmland, a lake, a stream, a lounge area ...

REVELO ISSUE 03 • Written by Brooke Carlock Miller Story Sponsor: UNIQUE APPAREL SCREEN PRINTING 533 Janet Avenue • Lancaster, PA 17601 (717) 824-4361 • www.uniqueapparel.biz [vc_video link="https://youtu.be/dWa2xNgka4g"] [audio mp3="http://revelomag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/AxelDiaz.mp3"] Sitting in a chair surrounded by his collection of model rockets, space shuttles, lunar landing capsules, and astronaut figurines, Axel Diaz’s face lights up as he talks about his passion for NASA and the ...