At one time in the Lehigh Valley, many people spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There were sections of the paper devoted to the dialect, and speakers gathered at Versommlings and Grundsau Lodsch ...

This is an excerpt from a January 16, 2019 article. If you’re looking for a different way to usher in a sense of renewal for the new year, put aside the halfhearted resolutions, fad diets and grueling ...

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 ...

The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts is piloting a program to get native Pennsylvania Dutch speakers certified as court interpreters. For the first time, Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking ...

If you heave, you leave. That's the rule at the inaugural Eating Contest at this year's Reading Fair, which runs Aug. 7 through Aug. 13. Contestants will eat Berks County's signature foods as fast as ...

The historic buildings of Berks County and the surrounding region are positively rife with early markings left behind by previous generations of inhabitants. Examples of graffiti lie hidden, often in ...

Bruce Wilson of Upper Saucon Township can’t claim Dutch ancestry. He’s Jewish and grew up in Philadelphia. But his wife’s family is rooted in Pennsylvania Dutch culture and heritage and that’s where ...

Situated on a grassy hill in East Earl, a small township about an hour and a half northwest of Philadelphia, the scale of the Shady Maple Smorgasbord takes a while to sink in. From the expansive ...