"One of the best known legends from York County, Pennsylvania, is Toad Road and the Seven Gates of Hell. What is the real story? Where are the Seven Gates of Hell? Where is Toad Road? Extensive research and on site exploration is combined to dispel urban legends while revealing stranger truths. Journey beyond the Seventh Gate and into other weird places in York, Lancaster, and Adams Counties. Explore Hex Hollow, Chickies Rock, lonely graveyards, and old iron forges. Read true tales of bigfoot creatures, witches, ghosts, werewolves, and flying phantoms. Sometimes they haunt the woods behind you. Sometimes they are in your own back yard." [from the publisher]
Yearbook of German-American studies : Supplemental issues ; 3
Notes
Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.
From the editor -- A Fraktur tribute to Professor Earl C. Haag / Peter V. Fritsch -- A tribute to a friend and fellow scholar / C. Richard Beam -- Ernest Waldo Bechtel (1923-88): the leading Pennsylvania poet of his generation / C. Richard Beam -- The first college course in Pennsylvania German / William W. Donner -- Reverend Howard J. Frey's Pennsylvania German service at Swamps Community Chapel in Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, 29 September 1984 / K.A. "Butch" Reigart -- A letter defining Old Order Mennonite worship in the nineteenth century / Amos B. Hoover -- New directions in a traditional Pennsylvania German healing practice: a twenty-first century powwower / David W. Kriebel -- Language and otherness: popular fiction and the Amish / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner -- An Amish mortuary ritual at the intersection of cultural anthropology and lexicography / Joshua R. Brown -- "Mir schwetze noch die Mudderschprooch!": zur Geschichte und Zukunft des Pennsylvaniadeutschen in den USA / Michael Werner -- Pennsylvania German in Lyndon, Kansas: variation, change, decline / Michael R. DeHaven -- Solving the preacher's dilemma: communication strategies in Old Order Amish sermons / Jörg Meindl -- The comprehensive Pennsylvania German dictionary brings back memories / Jennifer L. Trout -- Kucheheiser: cake and mead shop traditions / Alan G. Keyser -- Der Schtruwwelpitter: Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, dutchified by Earl C. Haag / Walter Sauer -- An 1857 version of the Schnitzelbank-Song from Basel, Switzerland / William D. Keel -- Revisiting Aunt Hannah: African-American folk humor in nineteenth-century Lancaster County / Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Wortfindungsprobleme im Sprachgebrauch von Minderheitensprechern / Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi -- Frühes deutsches Stadtbuch, Landgeschichte, Mundarten: Geistig-religiöse Strömungen in Europa vor der Entdeckung Amerikas / Helmut Protze -- Contributors.
On front of front flyleaf: "Compliments of C. Richard Beam, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University.
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; ser. 2, v. 46
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Illustrated lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285) and indexes.
Contents
Berks County: the center of it all -- Daniel Schumacher: a Fraktur artist of some note -- Henrich Otto, 1784 -- Friederich Krebs, August 4, 1790 -- Johann Valentin Schuller -- The greatest development of Fraktur writing, 1800-1835 -- Johann Ritter: a century of influence -- Conclusion: The last flickering -- Appendix 1. Fraktur artist who routinely made Taussscheine for Berks County families -- Appendix 2. Scriveners who routinely infilled Taussscheine for Berks County families -- Appendix 3. Berks Couny printers of Taussscheine in order by active dates -- Appendix 4. Translations.
Originally published: New York : Paulist Press, c1993.
"48"--Spine.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-298) and index.
Contents
Moses Dissinger : evangelist and patriot / by Thomas R. Brendle -- Parre Schtories : anecdotes / collected by Albert F. Buffington -- Life of Henry Harbaugh / by Linn Harbaugh -- Journey to Pennsylvania / by Gottlieb Mittelberger -- The journal and letters of Johannes Kelpius -- Chronicon Ephratense : the journal of Ephrata Brother Ezechiel Sangmeister -- The music of the Ephrata Clister / by Conrad Beissel -- Mystical sayings of Beissel, 1730 -- Life's description / by Ezechiel Sangmeister -- The red hills / by Cornielius Weygandt -- Christmas in Pennsylvania : a folk-cultural study / by Alfred L. Shoemaker -- The Moravian Christmas -- The long hidden friend / by John Hohman -- Pennsylvania German folk medicine / edited by Thomas R. Brendle -- Beliefs and superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans / edited by Edwin M. Fogel -- Pennsylvania German folk art / by John J. Stoudt -- Folk art of rural Pennsylvania / by Frances Lichten -- The legends of Mountain Mary -- The tale of Regina Hartman -- Poems from Life of the Reverend Henry Harbaugh / by Linn Harbaugh and from Harbaugh's Harfe / edited by B. Bausman -- Rachel Bahn : "The Pennsylvania German poetess" -- Excerpts from Pennsylvania German folk tales, legends, once-upon-a-time stories, maxims and sayings / by Thomas Brendle and William Troxell.
Lancaster County, PA connections : evidence of persons residing in other states or countries with a connection to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : compiled from deeds recorded in Lancaster from 1770 to 1830
Hale Columbia. Columbia, Pa., medical record, 1893-1905: A true and complete study of infectious disease & medicine in a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century
Contains extensive footnotes and citations. Indexed.
Summary
"From 1893 until 1905 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required local municipalities to record vital statistics such as births, deaths, and cases of infectious disease. The record for the community of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., survives in the county archives and is a valuable record of one community's struggle to contain diseases that are seldom encountered today: smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. Within these pages, one can learn about the diseases and the treatments available in that time period and meet the physicians and community leaders who were in the front lines of the sturggle." [book jacket]
Chapters: The Institutions/ The Diseases/ The Cures/ Medical Education in the 1800s/ The Physicians of Columbia/ The Ledger/ Annotations
