Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

== Culture ==
[[File:Caledonia State Park 3.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Caledonia State Park]]
[[Image:Capitol Theater Chambersburg.JPG|upright=1.1|thumb|Capitol Theatre]]
Chambersburg is part of [[small town]] America. Recreation includes hunting, sports events such as baseball games at [[Henninger Field]], and high school football games. The town also hosts a professional football team, the [[Chambersburg Cardinals]], that plays in the Gridiron Developmental Football League. People in the area speak in [[Pittsburgh English]] or with a [[Central Pennsylvania accent]], over-pronouncing "O's" and "I's". [[Caledonia State Park]] provides an area for outdoor activities, with the park especially busy on July 4.

The [[Capitol Theatre Center|Capitol Theatre]] was opened as a movie palace on Main Street in 1927. In 2003, it reopened as the Capitol Theatre Center and is home to the Capitol Theatre Main Stage and Auditorium, Chambersburg Council for the Arts, Caledonia Theatre Company, Chambersburg Ballet Theatre School, and Chambersburg Community Theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inchambersburg.com/content.asp?page=articleDetail&pg=curr&id=390 |title=A Cultural Centerpiece: Chambersburg's Capitol Theatre |publisher=Hagarstown Magazine |access-date=2008-03-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713023020/http://www.inchambersburg.com/content.asp?page=articleDetail&pg=curr&id=390 |archive-date=July 13, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref>

Wilson College is home to the Cumberland Valley School of Music, a local school offering private instruction on various musical instruments. It offers a wide range of lessons, classes, workshops, and summer camps, as well as presenting numerous recitals and concerts in Thomson Hall. CVSM sponsors a children's chorus (the Cumberbunds), a community band, a community orchestra, a concert jazz band, and the New Horizons Band, for adults age 50 or older.

Journalist [[David Brooks (journalist)|David Brooks]] in 2001 used Chambersburg and Franklin County to typify Republican "[[Red states and blue states|Red America]]". According to Brooks, there is little obvious income inequality and people don't define their place in society by their income level.  They value the work ethic and are anti-union, [[anti-welfare]], pro-free market, and religious social conservatives.

{{Blockquote|The joke that Pennsylvanians tell about their state is that it has Philadelphia on one end, Pittsburgh on the other, and Alabama in the middle. Franklin County is in the Alabama part . . . . The local culture owes more to Nashville, Houston, and Daytona than to Washington, Philadelphia, or New York . . .

The conservatism I found in Franklin County is not an ideological or a reactionary conservatism. It is a temperamental conservatism. People place tremendous value on being agreeable, civil, and kind . . . They value continuity and revere the past.<ref>David Brooks, [https://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/brooks.htm One Nation, Slightly Divisible], The Atlantic Monthly, December 2001.</ref>}}