You have traced the term “Garden Spot” (Scribbler colums of Feb. 20, March 3). Can you trace the first use of the word “Dutch” (instead of Deutsche) when speaking of the Pennsylvania Germans?

Nau vielleicht hoscht du en Frog, was iss der Unnerschitt zwischich Pennsilfaanisch Deutsch* un Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch? Deel Leit saage Deutsch, un annere Leit saage, Deitsch. Yaahre zerick in die ...

The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University will host a new conference Nov. 14-15, exploring the future of Pennsylvania German folklife, ethnic identity and language ...

Winterthur, coming off a landmark year thanks to last year’s Downton Abbey costume exhibit, hopes that the crowds who discovered the museum last year will return to see their new exhibit: “A Colorful ...

Here's an amazing number. In 2007, an estimated 250,000 Americans could still fluently speak Pennsylvania German, often called Pennsylvania Dutch. And others beside the Amish are counted in that ...

home-backyard Lancaster County: Pennsylvania German (Deutsch) Farming Join Paul Epsom as he learns how the early Pennsylvania German communities farmed in Lancaster County at the picturesque Landis ...

Friends of the Daniel Boone Homestead in Exeter Township hosted “A Homestead Easter” on Saturday, March 31. Visitors to the Homestead learned about Pennsylvania German Easter traditions, many that ...

N. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - It was a celebration of all things Pennsylvania German, on Friday afternoon in Lehigh County. June 28 is officially designated by the state government to recognize the culture ...

Simon Bronner, a Penn State-Harrisburg professor of American studies and folklore, writes about the German and Pennsylvania German preoccupation with manure and how it colors their culture and humor.

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X The Philadelphia Museum of Art calls it “the most comprehensive exhibition to be devoted to fraktur in over 50 years ...