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. 15, No. 4

Constantine Kermes, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Henry Glassie, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Victor C. Dieffenbach, and Tyrone Power

• Amish Album
• Look Back, Once!
• The Pennsylvania Barn in the South: Part II
• Folk Festival Program
• Contributors to this Issue
• Festival Highlights
• Twenty Questions on Powwowing
• Moon-Signs in Cumberland County
• Reminiscences of "Des Dumm Fattel"
• Notes and Documents: Two Documents from the First World War
• The Dutch and Irish Colonies of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 3

Earl F. Robacker, Frank Brown, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Marion Ball Wilson, and Fritz Braun

• Stitching for Pretty
• New Light on "Mountain Mary"
• The Newspaper and Folklife Studies
• Pennsylvania Limekilns
• Mennonite Maids
• The Eighteenth-Century Emigration from the Palatinate: New Documentation
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 2

Earl F. Robacker, Henry Glassie, Berton E. Beck, and Don Yoder

• Dutch Country Burls and Bowls
• The Pennsylvania Barn in the South
• Tales of the Block House
• Official Religion Versus Folk Religion
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 1

Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Amos Long Jr., Synnove Haughom, Don Yoder, John A. Burrison, and Clement Valletta

• The Year of the Rupjonjim
• Pennsylvania Summer-Houses and Summer-Kitchens
• Religious and Educational References in Lancaster County Wills
• Genealogy and Folk-Culture
• Pennsylvania German Folktales: An Annotated Bibliography
• Italian Immigrant Life in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1890-1915 Part II
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 14, No. 4

Don Yoder, Alliene DeChant, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Richard Shaner, Amos Long Jr., and Evelyn Benson

• Kutztown and America
• Sixteen Years of the Folk Festival
• Like the One Grandma Had!
• Kutztown's Mennonites
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Highlights
• The Ice-House in Pennsylvania
• The Conestoga Wagon
• Folklife Studies Bibliography 1964
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 14, No. 3

Earl F. Robacker, Don Yoder, Berton E. Beck, William H. Kenney III, Clement Valletta, and Richard Shaner

• Buckwheat Music
• The "Domestic Encyclopaedia" of 1803-1804
• Taming the Land
• Jacob Taylor and His Almanacs
• Italian Immigrant Life in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1890-1915
• Uni Day's Herb Garden
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 14, No. 2

Don Yoder, Earl F. Robacker, Amos Long Jr., Donald Roan, Lewis Edgar Riegel, and Jerrie Gressle

• Christmas Fraktur, Christmas Broadsides
• The Shape of Food That Was
• Bakeovens in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Deivels-Dreck (Asafoetida) Yesterday and Today
• Reminiscences of Centerport, 1876-1885
• Ohio School Children Study the Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 14, No. 1

Richard Shaner, Earl F. Robacker, Amos Long Jr., Berton E. Beck, Paul D. Brumbach, Phil R. Jack, and Victor C. Dieffenbach

• The Oley Valley Basketmaker
• The Sheen of Copper
• Pennsylvania Corncribs
• Land-Clearing in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
• Funerals in My Childhood Days
• Folk Medicine from Western Pennsylvania
• Peddlers I Remember
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 4

Earl F. Robacker, Alexander Marshall, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Susanna Brinton, Edna Eby Heller, George L. Moore, and Phil R. Jack

• Stoneware: Stepchild of Early Pottery
• The Days of Auld Lang Syne
• Grout-Kootch, Coldframe, and Hotbed
• Memories of Three Spring Farm
• Folk Festival Program
• Saffron Cookery
• My Childhood Games
• Western Pennsylvania Epitaphs
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 3

Earl F. Robacker, Don Yoder, Leo H. Bixler, Edna Eby Heller, Amos Long Jr., and Richard Shaner

• Piece-Patch Artistry
• The Horse and Buggy Dutch
• Pine Tar and its Uses
• Much Ado About Cookies
• Folk Festival Program
• Outdoor Privies in the Dutch Country
• Distillation and Distilleries Among the Dutch
• The Folklife Studies Movement
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 2

Earl F. Robacker, Robert C. Bucher, Amos Long Jr., Richard Shaner, and Don Yoder

• Pennsylvania Pewter and Pewterers
• Grain in the Attic
• Dryhouses in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• The Amish Barn Dance
• Pennsylvanians Called it Mush
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 1

Earl F. Robacker, George L. Moore, Russell S. Baver, Amos Long Jr., Edna Eby Heller, and Florence Baver

• The Paint-Decorated Furniture of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• My Mother's Kitchen
• "H" is for Hinkle
• An Album of Chester County Farmhouses
• Smokehouses in the Lebanon Valley
• Morning Glory Cake
• Five Years of Folk Festivaling
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 4

Don Yoder, Earl F. Robacker, Alan G. Keyser, Robert C. Bucher, Richard Shaner, and Alma B. Meade

• Pennsylvania's Plain Garb
• Ai, Ai, Ai, and a Bottle of Whatever
• Eagle Date Boards
• The Continental Log House
• Waffles and Wafers
• Folk Festival Program
• Witch Tales from Adams County
• Fianna the Dunkard
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 3

Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, J. William Frey, Vincent R. Tortora, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Alfred L. Shoemaker, John A. Hostetler, Laura Huyett, Andrew S. Berky, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Alan G. Keyser, Richard Shaner, and Alliene DeChant

• Antiques in Dutchland
• Antique or Folk Art: Which?
• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Amish Barn Raisings
• Building a Pennsylvania Barn
• Water Witching
• Amish Family Life: A Sociologist's Analysis
• Straw Hat Making Among the Old Order Amish
• Bread and Apple-Butter Day
• Schnitz in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Dutch Country Scarecrows
• The Man Who Was Buried Standing Up
• Living Occult Practices in Dutch Pennsylvania
• Farewell to Ollie
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 2

Earl F. Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora, Don Yoder, Robert C. Bucher, Paul R. Wieand, Amos Long Jr., Clarence Kulp Jr., Gary S. Dunbar, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Alan G. Keyser, Christ Geiger, Victor C. Dieffenbach, and Richard Shaner

• The Township Weavers of Pennsylvania
• Amish Funerals
• The Bush-Meeting Dutch
• Steep Roofs and Red Tiles
• Carpet Rag Parties
• Fences in Rural Pennsylvania
• Folk Festival Program
• A Study of the Dialect Terminology of the Plain Sects of Montgomery County, Pa.
• Henry Chapman Mercer, Pennsylvania Folklife Pioneer
• The "Glingelsock"
• Sauerkraut in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Collectanea
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 1

Earl F. Robacker, Alan G. Keyser, George L. Moore, Edith Patterson, Nicholas Bervinchak, Russell S. Baver, Edna Eby Heller, Mary C. Kreider, and E. Estyn Evans

• Tin: With Holes In
• Nineteenth Century Shooting Matches
• Dunkard Life in Lebanon Valley Sixty Years Ago
• Nicholas Bervinchak
• An Album of Etchings of the Pennsylvania Coal Region
• Corn Culture in Pennsylvania
• Rye Bread Lehigh County Style
• "Dutchified-English": Some Lebanon Valley Examples
• The Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival: A European Report
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 11, No. 2

Samuel Preston Bayard, Walter E. Boyer, Robert C. Bucher, Edna Eby Heller, Amos Long Jr., Vincent R. Tortora, and Alfred L. Shoemaker

• Walter Ellsworth Boyer (1911-1960)
• The Meaning of Human Figures in Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art
• Meadow Irrigation in Pennsylvania
• Receipt Books-New and Old
• Pennsylvania Cave and Ground Cellars
• The Amish in Their One-Room Schoolhouses
• Collectanea
Pennsylvania Folklife Special 1960 Festival Issue

Don Yoder, J. William Frey, Edna Eby Heller, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Martha Ross Swope, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, and Vincent R. Tortora

• Plain Dutch and Gay Dutch: Two Worlds in the Dutch Country
• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Displaced Dutchmen Crave Shoo-flies
• Hex Signs: A Myth
• Lebanon Valley Date Stones
• Antiques in Dutchland
• Antique or Folk Art: Which?
• Folk Festival Program
• Religious Patterns of the Dutch Country
• The Costumes of the Plain Dutch
• "Love Feasts"
• "Horse-and-Buggy" Mennonites
• The Courtship and Wedding Practices of the Old Order Amish
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 11, No. 1

Clarence Kulp Jr., Earl F. Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Roy C. Kulp, John R. Mumaw, Amos Long Jr., John Cummings, Jane Keplinger Burris, and Thomas R. Brendle

• A Dunker Weekend Love Feast of 100 Years Ago
• The Peacock in Pennsylvania
• The Get-Togethers of the Young Amish Folk
• Church and Meetinghouse Stables and Sheds
• Abraham Harley Cassel - Dunkard Bibliophile
• Mennonite Folklore
• Springs and Springhouses
• Finishing Wooden Surfaces
• Early Funeral Notices
• Collecting Dialect Folk Songs
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 10, No. 2

Earl F. Robacker, Samuel P. Bayard, Don Yoder, Ralph S. Funk, Phil R. Jack, Russell S. Baver, and Walter E. Boyer

• Cutting-Up for Fancy
• English-Language Folk Culture in Pennsylvania
• The Bench Versus the Catechism: Revivalism and Pennsylvania's Lutheran and Reformed Churches
• Collecting and Indexing Dialect Poetry
• Folk Amusements in Western Pennsylvania
• Of Plows and Ploughing
• The New Year Wish of the Pennsylvania Dutch Broadside
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 10, No. 1

Frances Lichten, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Walter E. Boyer, Earl F. Robacker, Edna Eby Heller, John A. Hostetler, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Jeremiah W. Andreas, Jacob G. Shively, John Butz Bowman, Elsie Smith, and Florence Baver

• "Tramp Work": Penknife Plus Cigar Boxes
• Tramps of My Youth
• The German Broadside Songs of Pennsylvania
• The Rise of Interest in Folk Art
• Dutch Treats for Breakfast
• The Amish, Citizens of Heaven and America
• Collectanea
• My Great-Grandmother
• Old Sweitzer's Ghost
• Pastimes of My Youth
• Battalion Day
• Seven Days Make One Week
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 4

Alfred L. Shoemaker, Don Yoder, Russell S. Baver, Ellen Shaffer, John Cummings, Martha S. Cummings, Earl F. Robacker, Marian Ludwig Wilson, and David H. Rapp

• Dry Houses
• Harvest Home
• Golden Fields in the Golden Years
• Illuminators, Scribes and Printers
• John Drissel and His Boxes
• Tick-Tock Time in Old Pennsylvania
• About the Authors
• Present Day Food Habits of the Pennsylvania Dutch
• The Attitude of the Early Reformed Church Fathers Toward Worldly Amusements
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 3

Earl F. Robacker, Frances Lichten, William H. Newell, John Cummings, Mary Jane Hershey, and Don Yoder

• Pennsylvania Chalkware
• John Landis: "Author and Artist and Oriental Tourist"
• Schuylkill Folktales
• Painted Chests from Bucks County
• A Study of the Dress of the (Old) Mennonites of the Franconia Conference 1700-1953
• Research Needs in Pennsylvania Church History
• About the Authors
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 2

Alfred L. Shoemaker, Vincent R. Tortora, John F. Morman, Earl F. Robacker, Howard H. Brinton, John Cummings, Edna Eby Heller, Phil R. Jack, and Andrew S. Berky

• Barracks
• The Courtship and Wedding Practices of the Old Order Amish
• Rufus A. Grider
• Knife, Fork and Spoon: A Collector's Problem
• Quaker Meeting-Houses
• The Bannister-back Chair
• Pies in Dutchland
• Amusements in Rural Homes Around the Big and Little Mahoning Creeks, 1870-1912
• About the Authors
• Buckskin or Sackcloth? A Glance at the Clothing Once Worn by the Schwenkfelders in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 1

William J. Murtagh, Don Yoder, John Butz Bowman, Charles E. Welch Jr., Alfred L. Shoemaker, Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer, Jane Keplinger Burris, and Earl F. Robacker

• Half-Timbering in American Architecture
• The Strouse Dance
• Schuylkill Boatmen and Their Ways
• Some Early Phases of the Philadelphia Mummers' Parade
• Fantasticals
• Joseph Henry Dubbs as a Folklorist
• About the Authors
• Horse Companies in Montgomery County
• Books Not for Burning