Document Type
Term Paper
Files
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Date
5-23-1950
Keywords
Amish, holidays, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Shrove Tuesday, Wit Monday, Saint Swithens Day, Easter, Levi Fisher, Good Friday, Thanksgiving Day
Description
A typed term paper completed at Franklin and Marshall College by Thomas M. Campbell, dated May 23, 1950. Within, Campbell recounts his interviews with farmers throughout Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on the various holidays the Amish community celebrates, detailing practices and rituals typically followed on a number of different occasions.
Corresponds to:
Packet 600
City
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Language
English
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Recommended Citation
Campbell, Thomas M., "Folklore Term Paper: Holidays of the Amish, May 23, 1950" (1950). Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents. 46.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/46
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