Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
An example of a house blessing can be found here: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/5861
Summary
This book features printed house blessings, a type of Pennsylvania German broadside that is often classified with fraktur because major fraktur artists decorated them. In fact, as God Bless This House points out, few fraktur artists made freehand examples of these blessings, but some artists designed press-printed examples, and many others added color and freehand artwork to printed sheets.
Harrisburg, PA (R.D. 4, Box 925, Harrisburg 17112)
Publisher
O.H. Stroh,
Date of Publication
c1980-c1984.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes indexes.
v. 1 (File 11) includes: Amityville Lutheran Church cemetery, Amity Township, Berks County (p. 47 - 50); Bauerman's Church cemetery, Wayne Township, Dauphin County (p. 26); Belleview United Brethren Church cemetery, North Annville Township, Lebanon Count y.; Bern Church cemetery, Berks County (p. 1 - 6); Bernville cemetery, Berks County (p. 7 - 11); Bindnagle graveyard, North Londonderry Township, Lebanon County (p. 32 - 35); Chambers Hill cemetery, Swatara Township, Dauphin County (p. 36 - 37); Church of the Brethren (Dunkard) cemetery, Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County (p. 50 - 54); Dunkard cemetery, Derry Township, Dauphin County (p. 36); Ebersole farm graveyard, South Hanover Township. Dauphin County (p. 30); Ephrata community graveyard, Ephrata Borough (p. 43 - 47); Fetterhoff Church cemetery, Halifax Township, Dauphin County (p. 24 - 25); Fox cemetery, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (p. 62 - 64); Greiner farm cemetery, Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County (p. 42); Hoover farm cemetery, Derry Township, Dauphin County (p. 35).
v. 2 (File 11) includes: Bashore family cemetery, Bethel Township, Berks County (p. 67); Baumgardner cemetery, West Hanover Township, Dauphin County (p. 47); Bittenbender cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 45); Church of God cemetery, Halifax Township, Dauphin County (p. 47); Crum's cemetery, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County (p. 52); Enders cemetery, Jackson Township, Dauphin County (p. 51); Esterton cemetery, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County (p. 39); Fisherville cemetery, Jackson Township, Dauphin County (p. 53); Huff cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 46); Huff's Union Church, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 43); Klinger's cemetery, Lykens Township, Dauphin County (p. 91); Masteller cemetery, Hereford Township, Berks County (p. 46); Mount Laurel Church of God cemetery, Piketown, Dauphin County (p. 35); Muddy Creek Union cemetery, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County (p. 61); Pleasant Hill cemetery, West Donegal Township, Lancaster County (p. 64); Rutt graveyard, West Donegal Township, Lancaster County (p. 64); St. John's (Host's) Reformed Church, Tulpehocken Township, Berks County (p. 1).
Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans; a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English
Quaint idioms and expressions of the Pennsylvania-Germans : a collection of curious phrases and terms employed by groups of Americans numbering into the millions, that truly flavor their English
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.
Summary
Describes the crafts of Pennsylvania Dutch living in a rural atmosphere. Includes making quilts, pottery, and tin and tole ware. "Eva Costabel introduces the reader to the life of a typical Pennsylvania Dutch farming family of the colony and to the many crafts produced by the German settlers htere, including quilting, pottery-making, tombstone-carving, woodworking, calligraphy, glass-blowing, and gunsmithing, among others. Her full-color drawings, reflecting the style of the Pennsylvania Dutch, illustrate their many contributions to American life, art, and crafts." [dust jacket]
Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-455) and index.
Summary
"While most world languages spoken by minority populations are in serious danger of becoming extinct, Pennsylvania Dutch is thriving. In fact, the number of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers is growing exponentially, although it is spoken by less than one-tenth of one percent of the United States population and has remained for the most part an oral vernacular without official recognition or support. A true sociolinguistic wonder, Pennsylvania Dutch has been spoken continuously since the late eighteenth century, even though it has never been "refreshed" by later waves of immigration from abroad.In this probing study, Mark L. Louden, himself a fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, provides readers with a close look at the place of the language in the life and culture of two major subgroups of speakers: the "Fancy Dutch," whose ancestors were affiliated mainly with Lutheran and German Reformed churches, and conservative Anabaptist sectarians known as the "Plain people"--the Old Order Amish and Mennonites.Drawing on scholarly literature, three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documents--most of which have never before been made accessible to English-speaking readers--this is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at this unlikely linguistic success story"--
