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.
Letter to Elizabeth Keifer detailing his research - Appraisal of Adam Koningmacher's estate - The Gibbons tract, Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster County, Pa. (map and text) - [Indenture:] James Gibbons to Moses Brinton - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congregation, Conestoga, 172?-1732 Foreward - First early English land grants - Pennsylvania granted to William Penn,1681 - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congretation Conestoga, 1721-1732 (map) - Conestoga German Baptist Congregaton (map) - Founding of the Germapn Baptist Sabbatarians at Conestogao 1721-1732 (text) - German Seventh Day Baptist branches: Virginia - Ephrata Borough limits and underlying Penn grants (map and text) - Cloister properties with surrounding properties with date warranted (map) - Disposal of various Cloister properties (map) - Approximate location of all Cloister buildings (map) - Chronology of land in Cloister - Acquisition of 27 1/2 acres and buildings by the state including inventory of personal property - Various names by which theGermanSabbatariaons and site were known.
"This first edition, printed on permanent all-rag paper, is limited to five hundred copies." --Pref.
The region described comprises mainly the counties of Lancaster, York, Berks, and Montgomery and some portions of Bucks and several other counties, without completely covering any county.
The last chapter contains a brief account of the author's maternal great-grandfather, Matthias Helm of Freeburg, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania German and Huguenot antiques; a list of articles giving Pennsylvania "Dutch" and English names and uses as employed by ancestors of many living folk
Compiled as a reference for antiquarians and collectors of elaborate and crude antiques for Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman Pennsylvania Historical commission by Walker Lewis Stephen, PH. G.