111 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
"This work is a revised and much expanded version of At the instance of Benjamin Franklin, by Edwin Wolf 2nd published ... in 1976 ... the new edition also contains passages from The Wolf years ... by Marie E. Korey published in 1984. The sections on the more recent history ... were written by John C. Van Horne and James Green ..."--Page [112].
The colonies and their churches -- The libertarians: Jefferson and Madison -- The icons: Franklin and Washington -- The philosophies: Adams and Jefferson -- The churches and the people.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-314) 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.
Colloquium on Schwenckfeld and the Schwenkfelders (1984 : Pennsburg, Pa.)
Place of Publication
Pennsburg, Pa
Publisher
Schwenkfelder Library,
Date of Publication
c1987.
Physical Description
274 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The Emigration of the Schwenkfelders from Silesia to America / Horst Weigelt -- The Geography of Schwenkfeldianism / Lee C. Hopple -- Eighteenth-Century Schwenkfelders: a demographic interpretation / Rodger C. Henderson -- Schwenkfelder indentures, 1754-1846 / William T. Parsons -- Domestic architecture of the Schwenkfelders in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania / Alan G. Keyser -- Schwenkfelders and Moravians in America / John B. Frantz -- The Schwenkfelder-Quaker connection: two centuries of interdenominational friendship / Don Yoder -- Mennonite reflections on Schwenkfelders / John L. Ruth -- Sudermann in America / Monica Pieper -- Schwenkfelders and the preservation of tradition / Peter C. Erb & W. Kyrel Meschter -- Eighteenth-century Schwenkfelder hymnology / L. Allen Viehmeyer -- The Krauss organ builders / Thomas S. Eader -- Schwenkfelder textiles / Elizabeth R. Gamon -- Schwenkfelder dairy farming in the early twentieth century / Kathleen Manolescu.
