Lancaster is a small town with big city ambitions is how I would put it I think laughter still got kind of the old town feel if everybody knows everybody and everybody gets along there's a good community in this area it's larger than just a small little town on a country drive but it still has that small feeling well I've been here my whole life my claim to fame here is my next door neighbor walked on the moon I'm a sculptor and owner of bob duster's backstreet studio my father had a sculpture studio for a while and he let me play with a blowtorch when I was eight years old the first piece I ever sold I sold it to a bank president here in Lancaster when I was probably about 12 years old it's not just copyrighted 1961. it's two ducks I got five dollars for if you think of an oak tree each limb being a series I may work on one 10 years ago a series and then I may come back to it and then that limb will get bigger and as I go up the more limbs come on the tree and at my age now i've got a pretty full tree you know my work is generally it'd be some sort of abstraction although we do do some realistic stuff too i'll see a piece of scrap laying somewhere and that'll inspire me to do a 20-foot sculpture and you know if i'm working with the school kids now what we do is we go into the schools and we'll do hand sculptures and we traced all the children's hands on a piece of stainless and then they with hand over hand me helping them they cut it out with a plasma cutter so they get to experience actually cutting the steel of course you're young and you're full of optimism you know like I was and still am you know you can go literally to the moon and everything in between I worked up town on main street at a clothing store when the whole main street just bustled and then i've seen it you know basically the downtown collapse and then now it's it's coming back which is a good thing the native American center I think is a good catalyst for that the Native American studies center is a 15,000 square foot facility in the heart of historic downtown Lancaster we're part of the university we offer classes we have about 10 different classes a semester that are taught here we teach other classes on main campus which is a mile and a half away we're open from Tuesday through Saturday free of charge and galleries rotate on about a six or twelve month rotation our main emphasis here is on catawba pottery the Catawbas have been practicing a folk tradition of pottery for almost 5,000 years and our collection is the largest in the world it's about 1,200 pieces and it's largely from about 1970 forward we do have some late 1800's pieces in the collection we also have baskets we have jewelry we have feather art we have a large collection of both clay and stone pipes in the archaeological collections we have about 50,000 artifacts from Lancaster Kershaw county the local area that date from the last ice age about 11,000 years ago on up to European contact our goal is to collect as much possible from the documentary record we know that Native Americans have been in this area since the last ice age so maybe as much as 12 - 13,000 years and one of my projects has sort of been documenting this over time on up to the arrival of europeans and this area saw a number of European explorers and there's documentary evidence of those travels and so we get a kind of a snapshot of what's going on here prior to European arrival there's a lot of support in the local community for what we do it's a very welcoming place I think what makes Lancaster unique is all of the really neat stuff is behind closed doors okay this racetrack's been around for I think it's 67 years or so I think it's the longest consecutive running dirt track in the Carolinas it's been kind of a way of life for people around Lancaster a lot of families have grown up here but people in this area is what they do uh racing is fun it's just something that everybody says you can't never get out of your blood once you do it one time you hooked on it you know you just can't get away from it we quit for a little bit but you can't get away from it this track is probably the biggest form of entertainment in Lancaster county as far as attendance and stuff like that it's a half mile high bank dirt track racing every Saturday night from pretty much March through September there's a lot of the same families growing up here pretty much you know everybody up here everybody helps each other out sometimes the people that don't get along they'll let each other borrow parts so it's just a bunch of good people up here you know the town's pretty close knit too oh people are nice in Lancaster there's a lot a lot of stuff to do there we are a production brewery designated in South Carolina by the department of agriculture as the only agricultural destination brewery in the state the brewery started as a hobby and it matured itself into a full-time opportunity we're not downtown on a corner of a major street corner so we don't get the high traffic we are a destination you have to want to come out here and so our customers are not just random people they research this place they want to come here and we get a very diverse group of people from bikers to families when people get here they decompress and they start chilling out and so it becomes more than a place to come have a beer it becomes a whole experience fermentation is a very interesting process it's basically four simple ingredients water barley to malted products it could be oatmeal or corn or whatever hops is what is bitters the beer in yeast and basically we're making a sweet tea tincture pulling the sugars out of the malts and we are feeding the yeast and the yeast eats the sugars and creates the alcohol we don't make beer yeast makes beer so we give the ingredients the recipe for the yeast to do their job and there's no other way it could happen the city of Lancaster they've been very supportive of what we do here my wife was from Indian land I bounced around from Charleston to Greenville lived in Concord, North Carolina I've basically seen all these cities grow and explode and um the growth is coming this way and it's going to change this town a little bit probably for the the better for all industries and businesses but that small town feeling is still still here this is our town Lancaster South Carolina this is our town Lancaster South Carolina this is our town Lancaster South Carolina this is our town Lancaster South Carolina we're proud of it