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. 26, Folk Festival Supplement

Nancy A. DeLong, Marie E. DeVerter, John F. Dreibelbis, Robert F. Ulle, LaVerne H. Stevens, Carl Ned Foltz, Robert R. Hoppes, Martha S. Best, Theodore W. Jentsch, Rita Grim, Earl F. Robacker, and Ada Robacker

• Bonnets, Bonnets, Bonnets
• Theorem Painting on Velvet
• Spinning, Weaving and Lace Making
• Mennonites: A Peaceful People
• Special Police Force Directs Traffic
• Candle Dipping and Molding
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Old One-Room School
• The Art of Making Brooms
• Koom Rei, Huck Dich un Essa (Come In, Sit Down and Eat)
• Old Fashioned Apple Butter Making
• Fraktur: An Enduring Art Form
• Covered Bridges: Folk Festival Questionnaire
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 5

Leo Schelbert, Sandra Luebking, Richard H. Hulan, Edith Von Zemenszky, and David A. Rausch

• Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An Annotated Checklist
• The Dogtrot House and its Pennsylvania Associations
• A Letter from Pastor Johann Friedrich Ernst
• Civil War Medicine: A Patient's Account
• Soups, Stews, Broths, and Porridges: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 48
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 4

E. Reginald Good, Gerald L. Pocius, Robert A. Barakat, Louis Winkler, and Don Yoder

• Isaac Ziegler Hunsicker: Ontario Schoolmaster and Fraktur Artist
• Walls and Fences in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
• Glossary of Pennsylvania German Terms Related to Construction and Tobacco Agriculture
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XV: Benjamin Franklin's Almanacs
• Wilhelm Nast and the German Universalists
• Vegetables in the Pennsylvania Cuisine: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 47
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 2

J. Ritchie Garrison, Mac E. Barrick, Miriam Pitchon, Donald E. Taft, Maurice A. Mook, John A. Hostetler, Don Yoder, and Stephanie Farrior

• Battalion Day: Militia Exercise and Frolic in Pennsylvania Before the Civil War
• Folklore in the Library: Cherished Memories of Old Lancaster
• Widows' Wills for Philadelphia County, 1750-1784: A Study of Pennsylvania German Folklife
• Forest County Lore
• The "Big Valley" Amish of Central Pennsylvania: A Community of Cultural Contrasts
• Maurice A. Mook (1904-1973): An Appreciation
• Collectanea: Ore-Mining and Basket-Making in Maxatawny ; The Sharadin Tannery at Kutztown ; Occult Lore Recorded in Cumberland County
• German Immigrants in America as Presented in Travel Accounts
• The Pie and Related Forms in Pennsylvania Cuisine: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 46
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 1

Angus K. Gillespie, Susan Stewart, Mac E. Barrick, Gary D. Hydinger, Leonard Primiano, Louis Winkler, and Gordon C. Baker

• Pennsylvania Folk Festivals in the 1930s
• Rational Powwowing: An Examination of Choice among Medical Alternatives in Rural York County, Pennsylvania
• Memories of a Moonshiner
• The Pennsylvania Germans: Folklife Studies from Autobiographical Sources
• Student Life at a Pennsylvania Dutch College
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy & Astrology XIV: Health and the Heavens
• A Traditional Family Reunion
• Roads, Ferries, Fords and Bridges: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 45
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, Folk Festival Supplement

Gail Eaby Hartmann, Lester Breininger, Lauren B. Augstadt, Robert S. Blanchard, Kenneth P. Lambert, Barbara K. Foust, Richard Shaner, William T. Parsons, Richard C. Gougler, Lynn David Pleet, Ada Robacker, and Earl F. Robacker

• Quilts, Quilts, Quilts
• America's Heritage is Endowed with Contributions of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• The Hospitality Tent: "H" is for Help - That's What it's all About
• Pottery: A Folk Art Expressing the Most in Simplest Terms
• "It Never Rains on our Parade" - On the Fourth of July
• Vegetable Dyeing at the Kutztown Folk Festival
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Foods: The Original Touch of the Dutch
• Ursinus College Studies at the Festival
• Behind the Scenes of "We Like Our Country, But We Love Our God"
• Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting
• Tin, Tole and Independence
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 4

Gerald L. Pocius, Bernard L. Herman, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Wendy Leeds, and Monroe H. Fabian

• Veterinary Folk Medicine in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
• Folk Medical Recipes in Nineteenth-Century American Farm Journals
• A Pictorial Essay on Pennsylvania's Anthracite Mining Heritage
• Fraktur: An Annotated Bibliography
• An Immigrant's Inventory
• Broadsides and Printed Ephemera: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 44
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 3

Don Yoder, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Mac E. Barrick, A. Russell Slagle, Ronald L. Michael, Ronald Carlisle, and William T. Parsons

• The Pennsylvania Germans and the American Revolution
• The Blooming Grove Colony
• The Salebill
• The Schlegel Family and the Rosicrucian Movement
• A Log Settler's Fort/Home
• Pennsylvania Dutch Studies at Ursinus College, 1976
• The Country Sale: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 43
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 2

Marshall Joseph Becker, Robert F. Ulle, and Victor C. Dieffenbach

• Shingle-Making: An Aspect of Early American Carpentry
• Popular Black Music in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia
• Powwowing among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Time in Traditional Culture - The Year Cycle: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 42
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 25, No. 1

Frank E. McDonald, Janet Hodel, Ronald L. Michael, Phil R. Jack, Louis Winkler, Richard Raichelson, and Grant M. Stoltzfus

• Pennsylvania German Tombstone Art of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
• Rain Day in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
• Non-Ordinary Stoneware Pieces from New Geneva and Greensboro, Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XIII: Conjunctions of 1683, 1694, and 1743
• The Social Context of Musical Instruments within the Pennsylvania German Culture
• Tourism and the Amish Way of Life
• Home Brewing Techniques: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 41
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, Folk Festival Supplement

Constantine Kermes, Lillian G. Kauffman, Nancy A. DeLong, Dean Wright, Paul E. Zecher, John Rohrbach, Ada Robacker, Earl F. Robacker, Carl Ned Foltz, Helen Arndt, John E. Stinsmen, and James J. Kelly

• Folk Images of Rural Pennsylvania
• Old Hymns in the Country Church
• The Kutztown Folk Festival is for Children Too
• A Forgotten Art Becoming Popular: Leathercraft
• In the Country Kitchen: Pennsylvania Dutch Dishes are Created by Instinct
• Visible but Unseen: The Festival Service Crews
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Three Times - And Sold!
• Basketmaking at the Festival
• The Christmas House
• Music on the Main Stage
• Metal Casting in Sand at the Festival
• Windmills and Farm Water Supply: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 40
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 4

Michael Moloney, Friedrich Krebs, and Louis Winkler

• Irish Folklife Studies: A Present-Day Appraisal
• Palatine Emigration Materials from the Neckar Valley, 1726-1766
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XII: Contemporary Almanacs
• Cider and Wine Production: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 39
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 3

Paul H. Douglas, Vernon H. Nelson, Carol Wojtowicz, Theodore W. Jentsch, William Woys Weaver, and Louis Winkler

• The Material Culture of the Harmony Society
• German Script Course, 1974
• Play in Philadelphia
• Education, Occupation, and Economics Among Old Order Mennonites of the East Penn Valley
• Pennsylvania German Architecture: Bibliography in European Backgrounds
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XI: Christoph Saur's Almanacs
• Reading Matter in the Pennsylvania Home: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 38
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 2

Hilda Adam Kring, Beulah S. Hostetler, Francis J. Puig, Monroe H. Fabian, Louis Winkler, and Pamela James

• The Cult of St. Walburga in Pennsylvania
• An Old Order River Brethren Love Feast
• The Porches of Quaker Meeting Houses in Chester and Delaware Counties
• John Daniel Eisenbrown, Frakturist
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology X: Christopher Witt's Device
• The American Breakfast, Circa 1873-1973
• Grandparents in Traditional Culture: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 37
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 1

Albert F. Jordan, Theodore W. Jentsch, Carol Shiels Roark, Suzanne Cox, and Louis Winkler

• Some Early Moravian Builders in America
• Old Order Mennonite Family Life in the East Penn Valley
• Historic Yellow Springs: The Restoration of an American Spa
• The Use of Speech at Two Auctions
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology IX: Johann Friederich Schmidt
• Courtship and Marriage: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 36
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 4

Scott Hambly, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Angela Varesano, Elizabeth Mathias, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Berton E. Beck, and Claude K. Deischer

• Cultural Learning Through Game Structure: A Study of Pennsylvania German Children's Games
• "Nipsy": The Ethnography of a Traditional Game of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region
• The Game as Creator of the Group in an Italian-American Community
• Pennsylvania Town Views of a Century Ago
• "The Barber's Ghost": A Legend Becomes a Folktale
• Grain Harvesting in the Nineteenth Century
• My Experience With the Dialect
• Harvest on the Pennsylvania Farm: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 34
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, Folk Festival Supplement

Don Yoder, Martha S. Best, Barbara B. Bomberger, Lester Breininger, Ernest Angstadt, Richard C. Gougler, Marsha DeLong, Dorothy L. Longstreet, Peg Zecher, Earl F. Robacker, and Ada Robacker

• Twenty-Five Years of the Folk Festival
• Our Farmer's Market
• Simple Basics of Egg Decorating
• The Folk Festival's Bookstore
• Setting Up the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Behind the Scenes of "We Remain Unchanged"
• Granges at the Kutztown Folk Festival
• How to Design Pressed Flower Pictures
• There is This Place - And These People
• Metalcrafting at the Festival
• Hex Signs and Magical Protection of House and Barn: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 35
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 3

Earl F. Robacker, Louis Winkler, Susan Stewart, Eleanor Yoder, W. Ray Sauers, and Mac E. Barrick

• Victorian Wall Mottoes
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology VIII: David Rittenhouse
• Sociological Aspects of Quilting in Three Brethren Churches of Southeastern Pennsylvania
• Nicknaming in an Amish-Mennonite Community
• Fruit Harvesting and Preservation in Early Pennsylvania
• Folklore in the Library: Old Schuylkill Tales
• Mills and Milling in Pennsylvania: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 33
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 2

Jane Spencer Edwards, Carol Kessler, Ronald L. Michael, and Heinrich Rembe

• Wills and Inventories of the First Purchasers of the Welsh Tract
• Ten Tulpehocken Inventories: What Do They Reveal About a Pennsylvania German Community?
• Wagon Taverns as Seen Through Local Source Material
• Emigration Materials From Lambsheim in the Palatinate
• Household Furnishings: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 32
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 1

Louis Winkler, Arthur J. Lawton, Robert Thomas Teske, Ronald L. Michael, Ronald Carlisle, and Don Yoder

• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology VII: Carl Friederich Egelmann (1782-1860)
• The Ground Rules of Folk Architecture
• The Eikonostasi Among Greek-Philadelphians
• The Peter Colley Tavern, 1801-1854
• The Wilderness and the City
• The Rural Marketing System: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 31
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 4

Earl F. Robacker, Guy Tilghman Hollyday, William Woys Weaver, Louis Winkler, Phil R. Jack, Ronald L. Michael, and Albert Cappel

• Let's Talk About Slate
• Ephrata Cloister Wills
• A Blacksmith's "Summerkich"
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology VI: Astrological Philosophy
• Stoneware from New Geneva and Greensboro, Pennsylvania
• American Emigration Materials from Pfeddersheim
• Folk Medicine - Home Remedies: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 29
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, Folk Festival Supplement

John E. Stinsmen, Louise Hyde, Cyrus Hyde, Richard C. Gougler, Martha S. Best, Richard Shaner, Lester Breininger, Earl F. Robacker, and Ada Robacker

• Sounds of the Folk Festival: A Visitor's Walking Tour
• Herbs at Kutztown
• Amish Weddings
• Food Varieties at the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Taverns and Tavern Lore of Dutchland
• The Lure of Tinsmithing
• Folk Whittling in Pennsylvania
• The Dance in Pennsylvania - Current Status: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 30
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 3

Burt Feintuch, Susan J. Ellis, Waln K. Brown, Louis Winkler, and Friedrich Krebs

• Frank Boccardo: Toward an Ethnography of a Chairmaker
• Traditional Food on the Commercial Market: The History of Pennsylvania Scrapple
• The Pennsylvania Dutch Carriage Trade
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology V: Religion and Astronomy
• American Emigration from Baden-Durlach in the Years 1749-1751
• The House - External and Internal Orientation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 28
• Pennsylvania Emigrants from Friedrichstal
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 2

Monroe H. Fabian, Martha S. Best, Karen M. Spitulnik, Louis Winkler, and Friedrich Krebs

• The Easton Bible Artist Identified
• Christmas Customs in the Lehigh Valley
• The Inn Crowd: The American Inn, 1730-1830
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology IV: Tombstones
• Emigrants of the 18th Century from the Northern Palatinate
• Butchering on the Pennsylvania Farm: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 27
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 22, No. 1

Carroll Hopf, Ellen J. Gehret, Alan G. Keyser, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, and Friedrich Krebs

• 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