READING, Pa. — It’s hip to be Deitsch. That’s good news for Pop-Pop, bad news if you bet the farm that Pennsylvania German would disappear from the face of the Earth during your lifetime. But it’s ...

Pennsylvania Dutch is David Adam’s first language. Today, Adam and his wife Jean, both 76 of Orefield, instruct classes on the dialect and put on skits for attendees at the Kutztown Folk Festival.

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 ...

About 245 people, most of Pennsylvania German ancestry, celebrated the Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture during the 84th annual Pennsylvania Dutch Gathering of Berks County held at the Leesport ...

The 83rd Baerricks Kaundy Pennsylfawnisch Deitsch Fersommling (Berks County Pennsylvania German Gathering) celebrated the Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture. About 250 people enjoyed an ...

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 ...

Dr. C. Richard Beam, Millersville guru of Pennsylvania German, said at the time that the only way to begin to figure the number of Dutch in Lancaster County would be to count the residents who ...

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 ...

When I wrote a while back about the importance of local journalism, I was rewarded with lots of support and the following great story. It came from Bill Cameron, a former Morning Call employee whose ...

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 ...