The Amish population in North America nearly doubles every 20 years, according to a 2023 study by Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This suggests the number of ...

Facebook brought them in and YouTube helped get them started, as dozens of eastern Pennsylvania residents gathered in Lehigh County for the preservation of something that once belonged to their ...

It is the 21 st century, and college students are learning Pennsylvania Dutch in a one-room, 19 th -century schoolhouse at the state university in Kutztown.For the second year, there apparently has ...

KUTZTOWN — Students sitting on rows of hard benches behind wooden desks face teacher Edward E. Quinter of Allentown, with portraits of Washington and Lincoln hung on a wall behind him above a long ...

MILTON — Learn some Pennsylvania Dutch words, put some stitches in a quilt and feast on ethnic food, all while enjoying the beauty of a local farm. Blue Sparrow Farm will host a Pennsylvania Dutch ...

Lina Grundmann carefully rolled out the clay and shaped it over a mold inside the barn at the Berks County Heritage Center. The 16-year-old exchange student from the Saxony region of Germany near ...

Lillian Geisler, a native of Millersville, Pennsylvania, graduated in 1936 from Millersville State Teachers College where her father was the chef at the college’s dining hall. When she accepted a ...

The holidays are filled with history — from tree cuttings, decorations and gift exchanges to caroling and family gatherings. And, of course, no holiday tradition would be complete without food. Some ...

It’s a language that was a cornerstone of life for European immigrants and is still spoken fluently in thriving Amish and Mennonite communities across North America and beyond. Longtime Lehigh Valley ...