{"id":295080,"date":"2026-09-27T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295080\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:00:07","slug":"lancaster-capital-day-celebration-cut-short-after-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295080\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster Capital Day celebration cut short after heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Lancaster County celebrated a unique piece of American history Saturday as the city marked its one-day stint as the nation\u2019s capital in 1777.<\/p>\n

The Second Continental Congress met in Lancaster on Sept. 27, 1777, after British troops occupied Philadelphia. The delegates were in Lancaster for one day and later moved on to York.<\/p>\n

The celebration was cut short because of rain, forcing vendors and attendees to pack up earlier than expected.<\/p>\n

Vipul Araya, owner of Bala Sahas Indian Food Truck from Hershey, said he was disappointed to leave early.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a little bit disappointing and frustrating, but like I said, that\u2019s the nature of the business, and we kind of take the bad with the good,\u201d Araya said.<\/p>\n

\"Crews<\/p>\n

Crews clean up after the Lancaster Capital Day celebration was cut short due to rain in the area. (WHP)<\/p>\n

Araya said he prepared a decent amount of food for the event, but had some product left over after the weather forced him to close.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did prepare a decent amount of chicken, but I do have a little bit of product left over that I will have to get rid of,\u201d Araya said.<\/p>\n

He said the weather also affected his sales.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say about this time for that event, I would be like 100-some sales deep,\u201d Araya said.<\/p>\n

Araya said he came to the event to share his culture and food, including a lamb and rice dish based on his mother\u2019s recipe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a lamb dish, like a rice and lamb dish, that we were really hoping to sell. That was part of our special,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Despite the early end to the celebration, Araya said he hopes to return to Lancaster next year and continue sharing his traditional foods with the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Lancaster County celebrated a unique piece of American history Saturday as the city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-295080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}