Pennsylvania German Arts and Antiques

Pennsylvania Dutch Market in Hagerstown

"You say potato, I say Amish potato salad."

"Can we say authentic?"

"It's delicious to walk around the Pennsylvania Dutch Market in Hagerstown and see elaborate quilts hanging on walls, barrels of candy, women in bonnets."

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Robert Reynolds: Director of Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center

"He oversees the 21-acre preserve on the edge of the Kutztown University campus."

"On display at the center are a farmhouse, a barn, a one-room schoolhouse and log cabins that date to the 18th century."

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Kutztown Folk Festival in California Newspaper

"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."

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Emmaum Library Offers Pennsylvania German Language Classes

"The course is designed as a start to reading, writing, and talking this dialect. Local instructors Vernon Frederick and Richard Stoudt will teach."

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Paint Decoration Workshop at Mennonite Heritage Center in Franconia

"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."

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The Triumphs and Tragedies of Alfred Shoemaker, Founder of the Kutztown Folk Festival

 

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."

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