Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

"The purpose of the Pennsylvania Folklife Society, a non-profit corporation, is three-fold: collecting the lore of the Dutch Country and Pennsylvania; studying and archiving it; and making it available to the public both in this country and abroad" [from Pennsylvania Folklife, Vol. XVII, No. 2]. Pennsylvania Folklife, the journal through which the Society communicated its findings to the public, is presented here in digital form in the hopes of achieving the educational purpose of the Society on a global scale.

The issues in this collection (volumes 9-46) cover the final incarnation of the Society's magazine, published in its later years by Ursinus College, through to its completion in 1997. Subjects covered include: architecture, cookery, costume, customs of the year, folk art and antiques, folk dancing, folk medicine, folk literature, folk religion, folk speech, home-making lore, recreation, superstitions, traditional farm and craft practices, transportation lore and numerous others. The contents are copyrighted by the Pennsylvania Folklife Society and are presented here for educational purposes only; they are not to be reproduced or redistributed for commercial gain.

Please note that the Spring 1977 issue was erroneously published as Volume 26, No. 4. The following issue was published as Volume 26, No. 5. No issue was published as Volume 26, No. 3.

Judith E. Fryer's Taufscheine - A New Index for People Hunters was first published in Volume 28, Number 1 (Fall, 1978). Taufscheine - A New Index for People Hunters - Part II was first published in Volume 28, Number 2 (Winter, 1979).

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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 38, No. 4

Ann S. Burrows, Ruthanne Hartung, Stuart Helble, Karen Helble, Frank J. Gallagher, Rae Greiner, William Dean Wright, Wayne Hartzell, Anne Hartzell, Teresa A. Skoog, Mark Osterman, Keith Brintzenhoff, Frederick J. Saul, Beth Kreider, and Richard Thomas

• Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Quintessential Quilts
• The Folk Art of Fraktur
• Molding & Spinning Pewter
• Kaleidoscopes & Unique Stained Glass
• Dolls are Not Just for Children Anymore
• Paint Decorated Chests of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• Tiffany-Style Stained Glass Lamps
• Be Aware of What Might be Hiding in Grandma's Attic
• The Medicine Show
• Pennsylvania Dutch Music & More
• A Poor Damsel's Fate
• Silk Screening
• Long Time Favorite Festival Foods
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 38, No. 3

Amos Long Jr., Robert P. Stevenson, Dale E. Skoff, and William B. Fetterman

• The Wayside Inn
• A Draft Board in World War I
• The Compass Inn: A Stagecoach Era Legacy
• The Pennsylvania German Dialect Playwriting Contests of 1941, 1942, 1983 and 1986
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 38, No. 2

William B. Fetterman, James D. McMahon Jr., Monica Pieper, and Lorett Treese

• Asseba un Sabina: The Flower of Pennsylvania German Folk Theater
• An Elizabeth Furnace Tenant House: A Pennsylvania German Structure in Transition
• A Tribute to Tradition and Necessity: The Schwenkfelder Schools in America
• "Enchanting Prospects": John Penn in Central Pennsylvania
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 38, No. 1

Lorett Treese, Rhoda Horning Denlinger, William B. Fetterman, and Lee C. Hopple

• "Faithful Laborers in this Vineyard of the Lord": The Swedish Mission to America
• Metzler's School, Then and Now
• E. H. Rauch's Formative Influence on Pennsylvania German Folk Theater
• Germanic Origins and Religious-Geographical History of the Mennonites in Europe
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 4

Carl Ned Foltz, Paul Shetrompf, Deborah Shetrompf, Gregory A. Petrick, Patrick Rudolph, Ivan Belac, Loretta Belac, David S. Marks, Lee S. Heffner, Ivan E. Hoyt, J. Ernest Miller, Malcolm Jones, Sheldon Janse, Rachel Janse, Robert Evans, Richard DeWalt, and Sandra Gilpin

• Pennsylvania Redware
• Intaglio
• Silhouette Glass
• Marionettes
• Ceramics
• Fretted Dulcimers
• Satisfying the Hungry
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• Hex Signs
• Dutch Fries
• Metal and Slate Engraving
• Antler Lore
• What are Knobbits?
• Wood Sculpture
• Scherenschnitte and Fraktur
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 3

Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Richard Matthews, William B. Fetterman, Erick D. Slazinski, N. F. Karlins, Leland D. Baldwin, and Edward W. Chester

• Folk Artist Jacob Maentel of Pennsylvania and Indiana
• Up Another River: Fourteen Days on the St. Johns
• An Appreciation of Russell Wieder Gilbert
• Holy Images: A Brief Study of Folk Religious Belief
• Lamont Alfred "Old Ironsides" Pry, Contemporary American Folk Artist
• Synopsis of the Penburne Quintet
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 2

Ned D. Heindel, Linda H. Heindel, Karl J. R. Arndt, Terry G. Jordan, and Lois J. Groff

• The Junior Republic Movement in Pennsylvania: Youth Care in Grove City and Redington
• Brechloch, or Rapp's Harmony Society and the Production of Flax, Hemp, and Linen in Pennsylvania and Indiana
• Some Neglected Swiss Literature on the Forebay Bank Barn
• "Hoping for the Best, Yet Fearing the Worst": An Overview of Civil War Medical Care Until the Battle of Gettysburg
• Aldes un Neies
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 1

Edward W. Chester, Nancy K. Gaugler, Ralph Connor, William T. Parsons, Roger W. Fromm, Hans F. Sennholz, and Guy Graybill

• Franklin in Fact and Fiction: The Double Perspective of Leland Baldwin
• Jost Hite: From the Neckar to the Shenandoah
• The Migration and Settlement of Pennsylvania Germans in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina and Their Effects on the Landscape
• Bethesda Evangelical Church in Farmers Mills: Fact and Folklore
• The Tourist Bureau Shuns Me!
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 36, No. 4

Eric Kvarnes, Peter Schnore, William Becker, Veon Becker, Allan Johnson, Nora Johnson, Stephen C. Breininger, Phillip D. Gottshall, Martin Kessler, Bonnie Kessler, Geoffrey L. Mehl, A. Daniel Valois, Janice Berry, Bruce Stebner, Joseph G. Beck, William R. M. Ritter, and Norman M. Ressler Jr.

• The Art of Glass Blowing
• Portrait Painting
• The Ox Roast
• Herbal Soap-Making
• Fly-Fishing and Fly-Tying
• Chalkware
• Silversmithing
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• Coopering
• Knife Making
• Corn Husk Dolls
• Salt Glaze Pottery
• Blacksmithing and Iron Working
• Bird Carving
• Soft Pretzels
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 36, No. 3

Michael Colby, Donald Graves, Monica Pieper, William T. Parsons, and Helen Urda Smith

• Die Farbarei: Bethlehem's 18th Century Dye House
• Daniel Sudermann, Schwenkfelder Hymn Writer
• The Pernicious Effects of Witness upon Plain-Worldly Relations
• Traditional Slovak Courtship and Wedding Customs
• Aldes un Neies / Old & New
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 36, No. 2

Barbara Knox Homrighaus, Terry G. Jordan, Matti Kaups, Richard M. Lieffort, Ned D. Heindel, Dennis Barone, and A. Day Bradley

• Immigration and Ethnicity in the Anthracite Region: The Peter Kowker Story
• Diamond Notching in America and Europe
• The Centennial of a First-Class Trip on Pennsylvania Canals: The Voyage of the Molly-Polly-Chunker
• Journey Home: Pennsylvania German Ethnicity in Wallace Stevens
• Quakers in the Lancaster Gaol, 1778
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 36, No. 1

Carolyn J. Mattern, Terry G. Jordan, Matti Kaups, Richard M. Lieffort, Hilda Adam Kring, and Helen Bradley Griebel

• A Pennsylvania Dutch Yankee: The Civil War Letters of Private David William Mattern (1862-1863)
• New Evidence on the European Origin of Pennsylvania V Notching
• Sem Kaufman's "Instructions to my Children"
• Worldview on the Landscape: A Regional Yard Art Study
• Aldes un Neies / Old & New
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 4

Ann S. Burrows, Mark R. Eaby Jr., John L. Shultz, Faye Miller, Lester Miller, Allen Folsom, Marilyn K. Wilson-Bast, Mary Eva Redcay, Gail M. Hartmann, Harold C. Moyer, Charles Messner, Walter Gottshall, Richard Shaner, R. H. Piercy, James H. Dawley, Robert Yard, Kathryn DeLaung, Lois Biamon-Sunflower, and Clifford Wright-Sunflower

• America's Pieced Patchwork Quilts
• A Tribute to the Late Dr. Earl F. Robacker
• Sundial Lore
• Square Dancing, Jigging & Hoedowning at the Folk Festival
• Bronze Working at the Festival
• Calico Prints
• The Country Kitchen
• Our Farmers Market
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• The Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect and the One Room School
• Early American Lighting
• Primitive Pennsylvania Dutch Carving
• Heartland Taverns of the Hinterland
• Tinnery
• The Ancient Craft of Flute Making
• Mind Your Own Beeswax
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 3

Karl J. R. Arndt, Donald Graves, Michael Colby, Paul McGill, Nancy K. Gaugler, Harry E. Chrisman, and William T. Parsons

• The First German Broadside and Newspaper Printing of the American Declaration of Independence
• An Overview of Flax and Linen Production in Pennsylvania
• A Civil War Soldier's Tale
• Samuel W. Pennypacker's Translation of the Haslibacher Hymn
• An Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. Sarah Hunter
• In Memoriam: Earl F. Robacker, 1904-1985
• Aldes un Neies / Old & New
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 2

William T. Parsons, Mary Shuler Heimburger, Karen Guenther, Martin W. Wilson, and Robert G. Adams

• Letters and Reports from Pennsylvania Germans in the American West
• Religion in an Iron-Making Community: Bethesda Baptist Church and Hopewell Village
• Delaware Water Gap: Birth and Death of a Resort Town
• The Search for Our German Ancestors III: "The Royal Connection"
• Aldes un Neies
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 1

Mary Laycock Selders, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Priscilla Stevenson Lockard, Guy Graybill, John D. Kendig, and Elda F. Gehris

• Grandmother's Flower Garden: The Quilts of Sadie Ida Christian Laycock
• Our Good Old One-Room School Days
• A Parade from the Past
• The Philip Arndts of Manheim (1797-1888)
• Pennsylvania German Cookery
• Aldes un Neies
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 34, No. 4

William A. Leinbach, Patricia Tinsman, David Gottshall, Marvin A. Dourte, Daniel T. Kohler, Sam Blood, Charles Layland, Margaret Layland, Brenda Wilton, Stephen Day, Richard Shaner, Donna Longenecker, William Weber, Mel Horst, Robert Jensen, and Donald D. Dillon

• Coverlets
• Sign Painting
• Reverse Painting on Glass
• Kites
• Snake Lore
• Horncraft
• Weathervanes and Country Signs
• Festival Focus
• Sheep Shearing & Natural Knits
• Bread Baking Among the Pennsylvania Dutch
• The Craft of Rushing
• Toy Soldier Casting
• Pennsylvania Dutch Humor
• Fireside Brooms and Whirligigs
• Springerle
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 34, No. 3

Earl F. Robacker, Henry J. Kauffman, Mac E. Barrick, and Hilda Adam Kring

• Johann Adam Eyer: "Lost" Fraktur Writer of Hamilton Square
• Aunt Lydia
• The Image of the Jew in South-Central Pennsylvania
• Gertrude Rapp: Harmony Society Abbess
• Aldes un Neies
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 34, No. 2

Burt Feintuch, Jonathan R. Stayer, Lyle L. Rosenberger, B. G. Till, Martha S. Ross, Guy Graybill, and Susan B. Trace

• A Fiddler's Life
• An Interpretation of Some Ritual and Food Elements of the Brethren Love Feast
• Pottery Making in Quakertown: 1800-1879
• Teddy Bears: An Enduring Folk Tradition
• Lucia Day
• Dippy, Son of Puddin'
• Persecution and Genocide: The General Problem as Illustrated by the Anabaptist Experience
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 34, No. 1

Hans Trumpy, William T. Parsons, Marion Lois Huffines, Robert P. Stevenson, and Jane Adams Clarke

• American News in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Swiss Almanacs: An Overview
• The Stuff of Which Folksongs are Made: Dialect Poetry of Lina Somer (1862-1932)
• Word Gain and Loss in the English of the Pennsylvania Germans
• The Autograph Album: A Victorian Girl's Best Friend
• Cobwebs on My Mind: Untangling Family Relationships
• Aldes un Neies
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 4

Mark R. Eaby Jr., Barbara Strawser, Eleanor Dudrear, Albert Dudrear Jr., Edward Eirikis, Gerri Sproesser, Carol Nagel, Vivian Aron, Marie George, Ann S. Burrows, Richard F. Kurr, James K. Beard, Jeanne Reifel, Tom Kloss, Jeffrey M. Fiant, and Ivan E. Hoyt

• I Remember Well: Thirty-Five Years of the Kutztown Folk Festival
• Furniture Graining
• Old Fashioned Clear Toy Candy
• Metal Etching
• Stenciling
• Baskets and Basket Weavers
• Apple Butter: Then and Now
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• 20th Annual Quilting Contest
• Quilts and Quilt Marking
• The Art of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• Music on the Main Stage
• Scratchboard
• Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art in Wood
• The Windsor Chair
• Hex Signs
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 3

Terry G. Jordan, Robert G. Adams, Paul R. Wieand, Karl J. R. Arndt, and Karen Guenther

• Moravian, Schwenkfelder, and American Log Construction
• The Search for Our German Ancestors Continued: The Breunings of Mohringen
• Where the Groundhog is King
• The Louisiana Passport of Pennsylvania's Charles Sealsfield
• A "Garden for the Friends of God": Religious Diversity in the Oley Valley to 1750
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 2

Joseph S. Miller, Hilda Adam Kring, Susan P. Martin, Elizabeth M. Safanda, William T. Parsons, Harold C. Miller, and Amos B. Hoover

• Children of the Spirit, Not of the Law: Themes in Anabaptist Theology
• Religious Symbols in a Symbol-less Society
• Games and Activities of the New Wilmington Amish School Children
• The Amish Quilts of Lancaster County 1860 to 1930
• Francis Daniel Pastorius, Public Servant and Private Citizen
• Life with Grandfather: Growing Up in a Plain Pennsylvania German Community in the 1920s
• A Tear for Jonas Martin: Old Order Mennonite Origins in Lancaster County
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 33, No. 1

Clement Valletta, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Allen G. Noble, and Jean M. Danis

• Ritual and Folklore in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Region: Old to New World Wonder
• Ordinary Architecture of the Pennsylvania Germans: The Turnpike Houses
• "Set thy House in Order": Inheritance Patterns of the Colonial Pennsylvania Germans
• The Literature on Fences, Walls and Hedges as Cultural Landscape Features
• Aldes un Neies
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 4

John F. Harnish Jr., Gladys Sweigard, Richard Shaner, John L. Lakatosh, Karen LeMonnier, Herman A. Danenhower, Dave Ehrig, Thelia Jean Eaby, James Petrucelli, Larry L. Rahn, William Dean Wright, Ronald Kunkel, Cindy Kunkel, Robert Nettleton, Cheryl Nettleton, and Jane Ann Stinsmen

• Frakturs
• Apple Head Dolls are Unique
• Tableware and Dutch Folklore
• The Pipemaker
• Wheat Weaving
• Beekeeping: Past and Present
• The Pennsylvania Longrifle
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• Quilts
• The Country Butcher
• Stained Glass
• Metal Casting in Sand
• Is This Pure Leather?
• The Horse and Carriage
• Marquetry, Parquetry and Intarsia
• Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking