My family moved to Mt. Holly because my dad got a job working at the Camp Hill prison. When I was toddler, my parents moved to Carlisle; our neighbors took us to church at St Paul’s and I was baptized there. I enjoyed growing up in Carlisle.  I went away to college and lived in Washington, DC in my twenties, but when I was in my thirties I moved back, along with my husband Adam. Adam also grew up in Carlisle and moved to Washington, DC in his twenties. We came back to Carlisle because we love the community; with my job I can live anywhere as long as I have access to an airport. It was easy choice for us to move back to Carlisle.

My husband and I have two children, Amelia (age 11) and Cole (age 6) and enjoy all sorts of local activities and the benefits of raising our family here:

• I help run a Facebook page (Carlisle Kids 17013) that promotes activities for families in Carlisle.
• I teach children’s Sunday School at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Carlisle.
• I coach Carlisle Diamonds girls fast-pitch softball.
• I run half-marathons with my neighbor Jen Clements. We enjoyed a half-marathon last fall through the Gettysburg battlefields.

We love shopping and eating downtown; biking on rails to trails/Carlisle bike path; all the parks; all the sports and music activities; we love taking advantage of Dickinson college – and most importantly we enjoy all our friends and neighbors. We have met so many friends Dickinson College, the law school,  and the US Army War College. One of the reasons that we like Carlisle so much is within 1 mile of our house we have access to Rails to Trails, so I can ride my bike past a bunch of farms. And a mile in the other direction my kids are in a great school. We can go hear famous speakers; we got to hear the man who ran Hotel Rwanda another mile from our house. We feel like we have access to so many resources for our family just within one or 2 miles.

I’ve seen Carlisle change and grow for the better. Our community is more diverse and more welcoming of diversity than when I was a child.  There is a sense of hope and optimism and growth. We still need to do more to address poverty in our community and make sure that all our children and safe and have access to high-quality education and recreation opportunities. – Lindsay Hough, Carlisle Resident