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R.I.P. wintry picture from Lutheran church graveyard in northern Bucks County |
there are thousands and thousands of these German language gravestones in southeastern Pennsylvania. Drive up north of Doylestown, find a towering, Lutheran looking church, and discover these found photo opportunities. |
They aren't Amish or Anabaptist, just good old fashioned protestants. Eventually their descendents got chewed up and spit out by the voracious US-Amerikanisch assimilation machine. |
Auf Wiedersehen, Jacob Scholl |
There was a cultural/linguistic divide between the English-speaking Quakers and the Swiss/German Mennonites and Lutherans in the nineteenth century. |
from a location near Kutztown, PA., where the Pennsylvania German Society publishes folklore, quilt, and barn folios in addition to their annual summer fun fair. |
from a location in Montgomery County, PA |
| Mercer Museum, Doylestown PA |
Henry Mercer collected their artifacts which can be seen in the Mercer museum, Doylestown PA |
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matcrazy1 Mon Sep 28, 2009 16:56 UTC
How have you been up? Happy, happy birthday to you + smiles from Poland: :-)))). We miss you here on VT! | craic Fri Oct 24, 2008 03:28 UTC
still missing you | Darby2 Thu Nov 1, 2007 11:38 UTC
Best wishes on your birthday, Bill!! and nice insight into travel in Ukraine | ATLC Fri Sep 28, 2007 01:31 UTC
Happy birthday! and to remind you to keep some stale bread and erwtensoep to celebrate! Or maybe a bit of nasi goreng? Keep in touch! :-) |
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