Reiff to Riffe family in America. ancestors and descendants of Mennonite Reiff brothers: Hans, John Jacob, & Abraham: Reiff, Reif, Rieff, Rief, Rife, Riffe
This book studies the writings of Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-276) and index.
Summary
"They wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality , they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley .... Susan Sabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience - a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era." [from the dust cover]
Twenty-fifth annual Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, May 12-16, 2004, Harrisburg, Pa.
Includes bibliographic references (p.118-122)
Contents
Pennsylvania Germans & German Speakers, A.G. Roeber--Landscapes, Gabrielle M. Lanier--House types, Charles Bergengren--Domestic outbuildings, Philip E. Pendleton--Barns and agricultural outbuildings, Sally McMurry and J. Ritchie Garrison--Townhouse, Bernard L. Herman, Thomas R. Ryan, and David Schuyler--Commercial architecture, Diane Wenger and J.Ritche Garrison--Religious Landscapes, Jerry Clouse.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v. 110. no. 1 (Spring 2008) .
Notes
Includes examples and designs : American ornamental villa (Home of Aldjah D. Gyger, Old Philadelphia Pike) ; Cemetery entrance (Gate house for the Lancaster Cemetery, East Lemon Street, Lancaster City) ; Suburban residence (Home of the Hon. Christian S. Kauffman, Second and Cherry Streets, Columbia ) ; Model residence (Home of Elizabeth Eshleman, 443 North Duke Street, Lancaster City ) ; American suburban residence (Home of George M. Hambright, 415 West James Street, Lancaster City ) ; Suburban mansion (Home of William M. Weigley, Schaefferstown, Lebanon County ).
Historic structures Survey and Determination of Eligibility Report : East Lampeter, Leacock, Strasburg, Paradise, Salisbury, and Sadsbury Townships, Lancaster County, Pensylvania
"Produced for Rivertownes PA USA in commemoration of the 140th anniversary of the burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge on 28 June 1863, this program narrates the dramatic story of the bridge's destruction and details the valiant attempt of an outnumbered detachment of raw Union militia to halt the advance of Confederate Brigadier General John Gordon's determined veteran infantry."
Also "introduces the poignant, very risky participation of a company of free blacks from Columbia."
