LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) -- One of the Midstate's best events opened Friday with a major change.

Every Labor Day weekend, hundreds of artists take over a part of Lancaster for the Long's Park Art Festival. Organizers expect 12,000 people to visit this year.

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Tickets are $15 except for young people.

"This year for the first time, anyone 25 years or younger can get in for free," said Rick Faulkner, festival co-chair and artistic director. "Rest of us, we're going to pay because it is a fundraiser for the organization, but we want to encourage that next generation of people to fall in love with the art and buy it and decorate their homes with it."

Proceeds from the festival benefit the park's Amphitheater Foundation, which pu

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