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Kutztown Folk Festival: America’s Oldest Folklife Celebration

Posted by Patrick Donmoyer on Mar 13, 2020 in | Comments Off The Kutztown Folk Festival, originally called the Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival, is a milestone among American community celebrations. Observing 70 years in 2019, it is the first and longest-running folklife festival in the history of the United States. Although many other popular celebrations preceded the Kutztown festival, it has had a national impact as the first festival founded and...
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Lancaster County: Diversity of People, Ideas and Economy

Posted by John Loose on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off When Lancaster County was established on May 10, 1729, it became the prototype for the sixty-three counties to follow. The original three countiesPhiladelphia, Bucks and Chester – were created as copies of typical English shires. The frontier conditions of Chester County’s backwoods, from which Lancaster was formed, presented knotty problems to the civilized Englishmen....
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Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off The descendants of naturalist John Bartram and members of the John Bartram Association will celebrate the centennials of the association and the family reunion during the weekend of June 25-27 [1993]. The event will feature tours of Historic Bartram’s Garden, speakers, bus tours, and a gala picnic on the grounds to commemorate the family’s first reunion in 1893. To obtain...
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Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off The Johnstown Area Heritage Association will host “Johnstown FolkFest ’95” from Friday through Sunday, September 1-3 [1995], in the community’s historic district of Cambria City. The Labor Day weekend event will feature ethnic entertainment, tours of historic buildings, and cultural crafts. For more information, write: Johnstown Area Heritage Association, P. O. Box 1889,...
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Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off “Tricks of the Trade: Apprenticeships in the Traditional Arts,” an exhibition exploring the relationships between master artists and artisans and their apprentices will be shown at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, from Wednesday, January 10, through Friday, February 23, 1996. “Tricks of the Trade” documents more than one hundred partnerships in a...
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David McNeely Stauffer’s Little Known Legacy to Lancaster

Posted by C. Moore on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” A passage from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1818 classic Frankenstein may be a most unlikely source, but these words characterize the equally unlikely life of Lancaster County native David McNeely Stauffer (1845-1913). Born in Richland...
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Portrait of Valentine Blanchard

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off Upon graduating from Lancaster’s Franklin and Marshall College in 1900, Worth B. Stottlemyer settled in Arlington, Virginia, where he prospered in the insurance and real estate businesses. An insatiable collector, he amassed a cache of antiques and works of art, intending to open an antiques shop in Frederick, Maryland, upon retiring. While building his enormous collection, Stottlemyer...
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Meet Don Yoder: Dean of Folklife Scholars

Posted by Kyle Weaver on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off In 1710, Hans Joder, originally from Canton Bern in Switzerland, arrived in Pennsylvania and made a home in the fertile Oley Valley of southeastern Pennsylvania. Twenty-eight years later, Johannes Cronister of Franconia in northern Bavaria, whose grandfather had been a Protestant fugitive from Lower Austria, came to the province and settled in the region that would later become Adams County....
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Pennsylvania Heritage Society Newsletter

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off Topics in the Fall 2008 Newsletter: Membership Value Increases Signature Series: Pennsylvanians and Presidential Elections Gettysburg National Military Park and Visitor Center Tour New Deal Post Office Murals Tour Calendar for October – December 2008 Teaching American History Teacher Professional Development Support in the Field Holiday Marketplace Welcome New PHS Members Coming to an...
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Pennsylvania Heritage Society Newsletter

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off Topics in the Winter 2009 Newsletter: New Deal Post Office Murals Exhibit Opening Signature Series Lecture: The Atom and American Life Calendar for January – March 2009 Dr. G. Terry Madonna: Pennsylvanians and Presidential Elections New Deal Post Office Murals Tour Welcome New PHS Members Environmental Heritage Summit Holiday Marketplace 2008 Annual Appeal 2008-2009 ...
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