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Contents

• Calligraphic Drawings and Pennsylvania German Fraktur
• Flax Processing in Pennsylvania: From Seed to Fiber
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology III: Comets and Meteors
• Rural Economics in Central Pennsylvania, 1850-1867
• Palatine Emigrants to America from the Oppenheim Area, 1742-1749
• Fruit Harvesting and Preservation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 26

Publication Date

Fall 1972

City

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Publisher

Pennsylvania Folklife Society, Inc.

Keywords

Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, fraktur, calligraphy, flax, spinning, cultivation, sowing, harvesting, threshing, flax seed, retting, braking, scutching, hackling, bleaching, astronomy, astrology, comets, meteors, Leonids, Halley's comet, account books, Reverend Daniel Stock, emigrants, genealogy, emigration, Oppenheim, fruit, harvesting, preservation

Language

English

Disciplines

American Art and Architecture | American Material Culture | American Studies | Christian Denominations and Sects | Cultural History | Ethnic Studies | Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts | Folklore | Genealogy | German Language and Literature | Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Religion | Linguistics | Social and Cultural Anthropology

Comments

EDITOR: Dr. Don Yoder

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Dr. Mac E. Barrick, LeRoy Gensler, Dr. Henry Glassie, Dr. John A. Hostetler, David J. Hufford, Dr. Phil Jack, Dr. Hilda A. Kring, Dr. Maurice A. Mook, Dr. Earl F. Robacker, Dr. Alta Schrock

FOLK FESTIVAL DIRECTOR: Mark R. Eaby, Jr.

FOLK FESTIVAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: Peg Zecher

SUBSCRIPTIONS: Doris E. Stief

Rights Statement

This publication is in copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ It may be used for educational purposes only.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 1

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