William Rittenhouse and Moses Dissinger, two eminent Pennsylvania Germans. William Rittenhouse, America's pioneer paper manufacturer and Mennonite minister
William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library. An exhibition of holograph letters and autograph documents, selected from source materials in the Blumhaven Collection
Faith and works at Middle Octorara since 1727 : a history of Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, R. D. 3, Quarryville, Pa. Edited by Sanders P. McComsey
Chapters: July: Home, sweet home ; Picnics and what they lead to ; Thrashing day ; Sing unto the Lord - August: Speaking of birthdays ; Vanilla pie ; It at first you don't succeed ; Waldeck weekend - September: It's done with mirrors ; The mystery deepens ; Sidetracked ; Another disappointment ; At last a clue! ; The plotthickens ; Dead end - October: Applebutter time ; Knee-deep in Indians ; Auction preview - November: Yankee versus Pennsylvania Dutch ; Til death us do part ; -and still fluttered down the snow - December: A hooked rug is begun ; Twin wood carvers ; Silent night ; Christmas Day - January:More of Mrs. Richards ; Baker-General of the Army ; What price antiques! ; Hexerei - February:The last of the old-time potters ; Old Bethlehem days ; Nemesis on the trail - March:Five-foot bookshelf of the past ; Little red schoolhouse ; Sorrow songs and such - April:Cave diem! ; Midnight alarm ; Mountain Mary - May:Dunker love-feast ; The gun that won the revolution - June:Summer serenade ; "Yes, well-good-night!' ; Year's end.
Summary
A wealth of historical fact & little-known lore, mouth-watering recipes & accounts of bountiful repasts, all given month-by-month for a year; Miss Hark, who was born in the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch country at Lancaster, has a sensitive understanding of her neighbors that has given her a passport into their private lives, their feasts & their ceremonies.
(In Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Yearbook. 24 cm. v. 19 (1954), p. [33]-166)
Notes
Indians, Northwest Ordinance, economics, fur trading, lead mining, farming, timbering, sawmills, doctors and medicine, lawyers, politics, schools, missionaries, women, folklore, old stores and taverns, census, Civil War, place names and landmarks, Pennsylvania German dialect.
