Hello from Lititz, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
I hope you will visit my pages here often, to see what's happening in the world of Pennsylvania German folk art, antiques, and folklife.
Come back again, soon. I will leave the porch light on.
P.S. That fraktur above was made in 1799 by Mennonite farmer Hans Jacob Brubacher of Lancaster County, PA .
P.S. P.S. ...you can send email to me Here.
Clarke Hess
"For 60 years, the Kutztown Folk Festival has been a part of the Lehigh Valley's summer. Old and young alike have enjoyed eating buttery cobs of corn and steaming ox roast sandwiches, listening to brass bands, watching the nimble fingers of quilters work their magic and watching a traditional Amish wedding."
"The course is designed as a start to reading, writing, and talking this dialect. Local instructors Vernon Frederick and Richard Stoudt will teach."
"Workshop instructor Jim King has a B.A. in art from Goshen College, Goshen, Ind., and is a Ten Thousand Villages store designer. He currently sells his work at craft shows in the east, including the Pennsylvania German Folk Art Sale at the Mennonite Heritage Center."
Image: Pennsylvania Folklife Society, Ursinus College
"More than 50 years later, the fate of perhaps the most important force in the post-World War II revival of Pennsylvania Dutch culture remains shrouded in mystery."
"Sixty years ago, the same year East and West Germany were established as nations, three professors from Kutztown University had an idea to introduce people to the German heritage of the local Pennsylvania Dutch. That idea — the Kutztown Folk Festival — is now the oldest, continuously operated folklife festival in America."
"The Tuesday Bridge Club met every week for eight years to restore the Martin-Negley house, a log building that is a fine example of the Pennsylvania German three-room plan. Last year, local Boy Scouts laid old bricks atop sand in the cellar and built the bins that would have served as the place where Germans kept roots, vegetables and sauerkraut."
