Pennsylvania German Arts and Antiques

Pennsylvania Dutch Club Started at Kutztown University

"As a team, Miller, Delaney and the club’s adviser, Zach Langley, oversee many of the operations within the program and help manage the club’s budget.  The majority of the money that the club will be using will go toward the various trips that the club has decided upon for the coming months, including excursions to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Old Salem, N.C., and a trip to the Palatinate region in Germany."

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Scherenschnitte / Paper Cutting Museum in Somerset, PA

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"You have to travel to Washington, D.C., to see the National Gallery of Art. But it's only a skip up the turnpike to The Guild of American Papercutters National Museum, which opened last fall in Somerset."

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Amish Population Boom

"This rural hamlet is a microcosm of an Amish population boom that has soared nationally by 84 percent, from 1992 to 2008. The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College reports that the population has been doubling every 20 years because of large family sizes and a retention rate of around 90 percent."

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Children's Camp for Pennsylvania German Culture

"In addition to learning about Pennsylvania German culture through crafts, games, music and food, Pennsylvania German vocabulary was also used throughout the day. Children began their day with greetings in Pennsylvania German and learned vocabulary related to their activities. Attendees were even divided into groups that bore Pennsylvania German vocabulary."

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News Anchor Kim Lemon Discovers her Pennsylvania German Heritage

 
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"Kim traced her genealogy with the help of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, and what researchers uncovered shocked even her."

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New Textbook for Learning Pennsylvania Dutch Language

"Douglas J. Madenford and Josh Brown grew up in homes where Pennsylvania Dutch was the second language."

"At a young age, both were mystified by the dialect of their ancestors, and they went on the study the nuances and culture behind it."

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German-American Heritage Museum opens in Washington D. C.

 
Babe Ruth  (George Herman Ruth Jr. from Baltimore)

 

"The German-American Heritage Museum of the US  presents permanent exhibits featuring German immigration and migration across the Unites States and famous German-Americans, as well as smaller, temporary exhibitions. In addition to the exhibition spaces, the auditorium, with seating for up to 60 people, serves as a venue for lectures, multimedia presentations and small conferences"

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German American Heritage Museum to Open in Washington D.C.

"This center will become the first national German museum to focus German immigration in the US and will officially be opened on March 20, 2010."

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The museum's website is under construction Here.

The museum's PDF brochure is Here.

The museum's Facebook page is Here.

New York Times: Rock and Roll in a Lancaster County Village: Lititz

"Lititz, Pa., a small town in Pennsylvania Dutch country, in the midst of cornfields and dairy farms, would seem an unlikely home for a warehouse filled with the detritus of rock concerts past and future — a large section of the stage for the next Black Eyed Peas tour, the sets for an Elton John concert and gigantic lips from the Rolling Stones."

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Pow Wow: Pennsylvania German Alternative Medicine

"Bilardi, 40, is horseshoe bald and sports a neat goatee. He speaks with impeccable grammar and an extensive, college-educated vocabulary in a deep voice that resonates as notes rolling through a cathedral. He has the professionally concerned face of a brain surgeon."

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