Translingual Inheritance by Elizabeth Kimball

Posted by on Mar 14, 2022 in | Comments Off on Translingual Inheritance by Elizabeth Kimball Translingual Inheritance Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia by Elizabeth Kimball University of Pittsburgh Press, 211 pp., hardcover $50 At the beginning of this book’s first chapter, the author poses the question, “What if we imagined a United States of America not in English?” This may call to mind the murky (and unfounded) legend about German and English supposedly competing...
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Painter of the Stars by Lee S. Heffner and Patrick J. Donmoyer

Posted by on Jun 7, 2021 in | Comments Off on Painter of the Stars by Lee S. Heffner and Patrick J. Donmoyer Painter of the Stars The Life and Work of Milton J. Hill (1887–1972) by Lee S. Heffner and Patrick J. Donmoyer Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, 144 pp., hardcover $35 The most familiar visual symbols of Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture are the colorful circular designs known popularly as “hex signs,” which adorn countless items marketed to visitors to Pennsylvania’s Dutch Country,...
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