The Pennsylvania German Zammelaaf nonprofit organization hosted its annual Grundsau Daag fer Yunge, which translates as Groundhog Day for Youth. While geared for ages 5-12, the event was open to all ...

Winterthur, coming off a landmark year thanks to last year’s Downton Abbey costume exhibit, hopes that the crowds who discovered the museum last year will return to see their new exhibit: “A Colorful ...

Nau vielleicht hoscht du en Frog, was iss der Unnerschitt zwischich Pennsilfaanisch Deutsch* un Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch? Deel Leit saage Deutsch, un annere Leit saage, Deitsch. Yaahre zerick in die ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Philadelphia Museum of Art calls it “the most comprehensive exhibition to be devoted to ...

One of the most charming forms of two-dimensional American folk art is the distinctive Pennsylvania German style of drawing and calligraphy known as fraktur, more properly called fraktur schriften, or ...

C. Richard Beam and Jennifer L. Trout have edited a new book memorializing a late contributor to the study of the regional dialect: “Dorathy V. Eberly Fry: Pennsylvania German Teacher and Storyteller.

Friends of the Daniel Boone Homestead in Exeter Township hosted “A Homestead Easter” on Saturday, March 31. Visitors to the Homestead learned about Pennsylvania German Easter traditions, many that ...

The venerable stone houses, mills, churches and shops built by local Teutonic immigrants were in large part homegrown American inventions. So contend Sally McMurry and Nancy Van Dolsen, editors of a ...

German Americans make up one of the nation’s largest ancestry groups, with nearly 45 million people claiming German roots. But if you want to see where that heritage runs deepest, the latest Census ...