"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. 21, No. 4
Robert A. Barakat, Louis Winkler, Juliana Roth, Robert L. Dluge Jr., Werner Hacker, and Friedrich Krebs
• The Herr and Zeller Houses
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology II: The Moon
• Travel Journals as a Folklife Research Tool: Impressions of the Pennsylvania Germans
• My Interview with a Powwower
• American Emigrants from the Territories of the Bishropric of Speyer
• Emigrants to America from the Duchy of Zweibrucken
• Funeral Customs: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 24 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, Folk Festival Supplement
LeRoy Gensler, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Richard C. Gougler, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Richard Shaner, and Wayne F. Cardinalli
• A Look at the Festival
• The Tradition of the Dutch-English Comedian
• We Waste Not
• Amish Barn-Raising
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Quilting Traditions of the Dutch Country
• Recollections of Witchcraft in the Oley Hills
• The Festival Potters
• Herbs and Herb Lore: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 25 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 3
Wasyl O. Luciw, George Wynnysky, Donald M. Hines, Lester Breininger, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, C. Lee Hopple, and Friedrich Krebs
• The Ukrainian Pysanka and Other Decorated Easter Eggs in Pennsylvania
• The Development of Folklife Research in the United Kingdom
• Just a Bone
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology: Almanacs
• Central Pennsylvania Fishing Spears
• Spatial Development of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community to 1970: Part II
• 18th-Century Emigrants from the Palatinate, Lower Alsace, and Rheinhessen
• Tobacco and Tobacco Culture: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 23 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 2
Don Yoder, C. Lee Hopple, Friedrich Krebs, Rufus A. Grider, and Gabriel Hartmann
• The Pennsylvania Germans: A Preliminary Reading List
• Spatial Development of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community to 1970: Part I
• Palatine Emigrants of the 18th Century
• Winter Album
• Emigrants from Dossenheim (Baden) in the 18th Century
• Farm Layouts and Building Plans: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 22 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 1
Earl F. Robacker, Eleanor Fein Reishtein, Ronald L. Michael, C. Frances Berman, Maurice A. Mook, and Don Yoder
• The Fraktur of Monroe County
• Minutes of the West Grove Housekeepers Association as Source Material for Folklife Studies
• The Searight Tavern on the National Road: An Archaeological Study
• The "Brown Sugar" Game in Western Pennsylvania
• Bread Baking in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania: Commentary for the Documentary Film in the "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica"
• Notes and Documents: Literature for the Allegheny Frontier: The Huntingdon Literary Museum and Monthly Miscellany (1810)
• Hunting and Food-Gathering: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 21 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 4
Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Christian B. Newswanger, Wayne E. Homan, Robert I. Schneider, John E. Stinsmen, Martha S. Best, Cecelia Whitman, Edna Eby Heller, David W. Thompson, and Edward S. Gifford Jr.
• Flight of the Distelfink
• The Newswangers, Interpreters of Amish Life
• The Sorrow Song of Susanna Cox
• Country Butcher: An Interview with Newton Bachman
• "Swing Your Partner": Folk Dancing at the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Leaving the Festival with Thoughts of Food
• Spindrift: The Old Dog Churn
• Candy Making in the Dutch Country
• Gee, Haw and Geehaw
• The Evil Eye in Philadelphia
• The Country School: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 20 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 3
Alan G. Keyser, Don Yoder, Gregory Gizelis, and Angus K. Gillespie
• Gardens and Gardening Among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Historical Sources For American Traditional Cookery: Examples from the Pennsylvania German Culture
• The Use of Amulets Among Greek-Philadelphians
• Work and the Farmer: The Almanac as Cultural Index, 1858-1898
• Pennsylvania German and High German: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 19
• Engravings of Western Pennsylvania Scenes -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 2
Carroll Hopf, Gregory Gizelis, Mac E. Barrick, Susan Dwyer Shick, Amos Long Jr., William S. Troxell, and Ruth K. Hagy
• Decorated Folk Furniture
• Foodways Acculturation in the Greek Community of Philadelphia
• David Stoner: Notes on a Neglected Craftsman
• Baptist Autobiography as a Folklife Source
• Bank (Multi-Level) Structures in Rural Pennsylvania
• Der Census Enumerator
• Leisure Time Activities in West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1800-1850
• Local Characters and Originals: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 18 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 1
Robert D. Bethke, Earl F. Robacker, Daniel B. Reibel, Guy Tilghman Hollyday, and William P. Stein
• Chapbook "Gallows-Literature" In Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania
• The Winding Road to Stick Spatter
• The Kunstfest at Old Economy
• The Ephrata Codex: Relationships Between Text and Illustration
• Report of the Living History Seminar, 1969
• Dairy Products: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 17
• Country School Photographs from Pennsylvania -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 4
Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Sioux Baldwin, Edna Eby Heller, Martha S. Best, Dodds Meddock, Mac E. Barrick, Henry Snyder Gehman, and Hilda Adam Kring
• Whittling: Dumb Dutch Pastime
• Amish Plain Costume: A Matter of Choice
• It's Sticky - But We Love It
• The Folk Festival Seminars: Folk Art and Antique Collecting
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• 19th-Century Ballooning Tradition Continues at Kutztown Festival
• Jump-Rope Rhymes
• Ghost Stories and Old Superstitions of Lancaster County
• Mary Goes Over the Mountain
• Children's Games: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 16 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 3
Toni F. Fratto, David C. Winslow, Leslie P. Greenhill, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Don Yoder, and Guy Tilghman Hollyday
• Cooking in Red and White
• Trade Cards, Catalogs, and Invoice Heads
• The Encyclopaedia Cinematographica and Folklife Studies
• The Cheese was Good
• Notes and Documents: Eighteenth-Century Letters from Germany
• The Ephrata Wall-Charts and Their Inscriptions
• Itinerants - Peddlers, Drovers, Wagoners, Gypsies, Tramps: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 15
• Engravings of Pennsylvania Mills -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 2
Marcia Westkott, Fay McAfee Winey, Joseph M. Gray, Amos Long Jr., Angus K. Gillespie, Friedrich Krebs, and Otto Baeumer
• Powwowing in Berks County
• Belsnickling in Paxtonville
• The Folk Tradition of the Sweetheart Tree
• Pigpens and Piglore in Rural Pennsylvania
• Gravestones and Ostentation: A Study of Five Delaware County Cemeteries
• Notes on Eighteenth-Century Emigration to the British Colonies
• A Siegerland Emigrant List of 1738
• Local Place Names: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 14 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 19, No. 1
Vernon H. Nelson, Lothar Madeheim, Mildred Urick, John A. Hostetler, Beulah S. Hostetler, Mac E. Barrick, Arthur J. Lawton, and Don Yoder
• The Moravian Settlements of Pennsylvania in 1757: The Nicholas Garrison Views
• The San Rocco Festival at Aliquippa, Pennsylvania: A Transplanted Tradition
• Amish Genealogy: A Progress Report
• Pulpit Humor in Central Pennsylvania
• The Pre-Metric Foot and its Use in Pennsylvania German Architecture
• Mennonite Contacts Across the Atlantic: The Van der Smissen Letter of 1838
• Bread, Baking, and the Bakeoven: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 13 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 4
Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Martha S. Best, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Carter W. Craigie, Betty Snellenburg, William H. Egle, and Robert C. Bucher
• Discord in the Garden
• The Folk Festival Seminars: Crafts and Customs of the Year
• What to Read on the Amish
• "Soup's On!"
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Folk Festival Geisinger
• Four Interviews with Powwowers
• The First Historian of the Pennsylvania Germans
• The Public Sale Sixty Years Ago
• The Long Shingle
• Quilts and Quilting: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 12 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 3
Harry E. Smith, Donald R. Friary, L. Karen Baldwin, Amos Long Jr., Friedrich Krebs, and Don Yoder
• The End of the Horse and Buggy Era
• Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: A Review
• Humor in a Friendly World
• Chickens and Chicken Houses in Rural Pennsylvania
• Eighteenth-Century Emigrants to America from the Duchy of Zweibrucken and the Germersheim District
• Horse-Drawn Transportation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 11 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 2
Robert C. Bucher, Don Yoder, Harry H. Hiller, Henry Glassie, and Donald F. Durnbaugh
• The Swiss Bank House in Pennsylvania
• Trance-Preaching in the United States
• The Sleeping Preachers: An Historical Study of the Role of Charisma in Amish Society
• A Central Chimney Continental Log House
• The German Journalist and the Dunker Love-Feast
• Christmas Customs: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 10 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 1
Carter W. Craigie, Robert D. Bethke, Mary Ellen Brown Lewis, Clarissa Smith, John D. Milner, George Valentine Massey II, A. P. Body, Don Yoder, Millard E. Gladfelter, Homer L. Kreider, and Charles D. Spotts
• Tanning in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1711-1850
• Chester County Widow Wills (1714-1800), A Folklife Source
• Folk Elements in Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Communities
• The Thomas Massey House
• Passengers on the Ketch "Endeavour"
• The Medical Plants of Berks County, Pennsylvania
• Notes and Documents: A Dunkard Love Feast ; Jacob Graeff's Reminiscences of Reading
• Symposium on the Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect
• Farm Dress: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 9 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 4
Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Henry Snyder Gehman, Mabel Snyder, Phares H. Hertzog, Maurice A. Mook, Lester O. Troyer, Edna Eby Heller, William Jay Bryan, Mac E. Barrick, and Fay McAfee Winey
• Floral Motifs in Dutchland's Art
• What the Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect Has Meant in My Life
• How I Make Soap
• Pennsylvania German Snakelore
• Amish Nicknames
• Amish Nicknames from Holmes County, Ohio
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Highlights
• Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Today and Yesterday
• Folk Medicine in Butler County, Pennsylvania
• Finger Games and Rhymes
• Huckleberry Picking on Shade Mountain
• Mealtimes and Table Settings: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #8 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 3
Martha S. Best, Don Yoder, Clarissa Smith, Donald R. Friary, Amos Long Jr., and Phil R. Jack
• Easter Customs in the Lehigh Valley
• From Paoli to Frederick in 1854: An Anonymous Travel Account
• Jumping Into Spring
• A Welsh Antecedent for St. David's Church, Radnor: Gwydir Uchaf Chapel, Caernarvonshire, Wales
• Pumps, Rams, Windmills and Waterwheels in Rural Pennsylvania
• A Western Pennsylvania Graveyard, 1787-1967
• Baptism and Confirmation: Folk-Culture Questionnaire No. 7 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 2
Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Don Yoder, Monroe H. Fabian, Phares H. Hertzog, William A. Reagan, Claude Unger, Lester O. Troyer, and John Eby Pfautz
• The Far-From-Lonely Heart
• Almanac Album
• Some Moravian Paintings in London
• Snakelore in Pennsylvania German Folk Medicine
• The Blacksmith and his Tools
• "Shouting, Jumping Evangelicals"
• The Old Goschenhoppen Lutheran Burial Register, 1752-1772
• Personalia from the "Amerikanischer Correspondent"
• Regionalism Among the Holmes County Amish
• The Pennsylvania German Churches and Sects (1878)
• Notes and Documents: A Curious People (1877) ; Pokes and Tuts (1964)
• Feather Beds and Chaff Bags: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 6 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 1
Alta Schrock, Mac E. Barrick, Phares H. Hertzog, Ruth Hawthorne, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Robert Boyd, Don Yoder, and Friedrich Krebs
• The Council of the Alleghenies
• Lewis the Robber in Life and Legend
• Snakes and Snakelore of Pennsylvania
• The Folklore Repertory of a Third-Grade Class
• Weather Signs and Calendar Lore from the "Dumb Quarter"
• Hardships of Circuit-Rider Life on the Pennsylvania-Ohio Frontier
• Eighteenth-Century Emigration from the Duchy of Zweibrucken
• Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 5: The Pennsylvania Folk-Dance Tradition -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 4
Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Arthur J. Lawton, Clarence Kulp Jr., Carter W. Craigie, Mabel Fritch, Edna Eby Heller, Sara Grey, Don Yoder, and Mac E. Barrick
• Ancient of Days - Plus Tax!
• Living History
• The Goschenhoppen Historians
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Highlights
• The Tinsmith of Kutztown
• The Chaff Bag and its Preparation
• Traditional Favorites Go Modern
• Children's Games Among Lancaster County Mennonites
• Notes and Documents: Early American Humor in Philadelphia Jokebooks
• Numskull Tales in Cumberland County
• Contributors to this Issue
• Folklife Studies and American History
• Powwowing: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #4 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 3
Lewis Edgar Riegel, Nancy J. McFall, Ruth M. Home, Don Yoder, Jacob Bishop Crist, Susan R. Severs, and Abraham R. Horne
• Reminiscences of a Boyhood in Reading, 1883-1890
• Preserving York's Architectural Heritage
• Jordan Museum of the Twenty
• Pennsylvania Broadsides: II
• Memoirs of a Lutheran Minister, 1850-1881
• Notes and Documents: Nicknames from a Mennonite Family
• The Crafts at Newport
• Anglicizing the Pennsylvania Dutch, 1966 and 1875
• Nicknames: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #3 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 2
Earl F. Robacker, Don Yoder, Friedrich Krebs, Victor C. Dieffenbach, and Amos Long Jr.
• Christmas - Back Along
• Pennsylvania Broadsides: I
• New Materials on 18th-Century Emigration from Wurttemberg
• More Tramp Tales
• Veterinary and Household Recipes from West Cocalico
• The Pennsylvania Sketchbooks of Charles Lesueur
• The Woodshed
• Notes and Documents: Articles on the Amish from the "Reformirte Kirchenzeitung" (1860)
• Prayers, Graces and Home Devotions: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #2 -
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 1
George Peterson III, William Hannan, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Berton E. Beck, Jacob G. Shively, Lester Breininger, Friedrich Krebs, and Don Yoder
• Indian Readers and Healers by Prayer
• Bayard Taylor's Portrait of Pennsylvania Quakerism
• Gypsy Stories from the Swatara Valley
• Stump-Pulling
• Occult Tales from Union County
• Beekeeping and Bee Lore in Pennsylvania
• New Materials on the 18th Century Emigration from the Speyer State Archives
• The Snake-Bitten Dutchman
• Notes and Documents: A Letter to Germany (1806) ; Midwestern Diary of Joel Vale Garretson (1863-1864)
• Questionnaire on Hominy
