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Arts Organization Appoints 2007 Directors.

LANCASTER, PA -- The Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation has named two Lancaster County women to co-direct its top-rated fine art and craft show. Tapped to a new position as festival managing director of the 2007 Long’s Park Art & Craft Festival is Amy L. Marberger. Donna Stephan Reinaker has been named festival artistic director.

The 2007 show will be held Labor Day weekend, Friday through Monday, August 31 to September 3.

Reinaker has led the festival as its solo director the past three years. Under her tenure the 27-year-old show has been named the fourth best fine art and craft festival in the nation by The Harris List and the sixth finest by ArtFair SourceBook.

“This marks a natural evolution for the show and an opportunity for me to step back and turn over the extensive, day-to-day management of the festival,” explained Reinaker. “Our plans and dreams for this event have simply outgrown any one volunteer. To maintain our quality and enhance our guest experience year after year requires more time and talent. I’m honored that Amy has agreed to join me in leading next year’s event.”

Amy Marberger has volunteered at the festival for many years, joining the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation board in 2005. She served on the planning group for the Festival’s first Breakfast in the Park benefit in 2006. The Millersville resident is a commercial insurance agent and assistant to the president at the Martin Insurance Agency in Millersville. She graduated from Millersville University in 1993. She has been a member of Lancaster Sertoma Club since 2003 and lives in Millersville.

Donna Reinaker is Lancaster County’s Register of Wills. She is also the owner of Interior Design Consultants. She has served on the Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation board of directors in 2002. She and her husband, Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas judge Dennis Reinaker, reside in Manheim Township in Lancaster County.

The Long’s Park Art & Craft Festival was founded in 1979 as the primary revenue source for the regionally renowned Long’s Park Summer Entertainment Series. Over the years it has grown in size and reputation. An estimated 1,000 artists and craftspeople from across the country now vie to be one of the show’s coveted 200 exhibitors. Approximately 20,000 guests from across the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond make the show a regular part of their Labor Day weekend celebration. The volunteer-driven event is supported by just one paid staff member.

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