The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center celebrated Pennsylvania German Christmas traditions during its annual Christmas on the Farm on Dec. 3. “Our hope for the event is that members of ...

Jacque Schrag/Axios Chinese, Pennsylvania German, and Russian are the three most commonly spoken languages in the the Commonwealth, other than English and Spanish, per new census data. Why it matters: ...

Set in a historic village, she describes the lifestyle of the Pennsylvania Deutsch, descendants of German settlers who sought religious freedom in the 18th century. The film contrasts the ...

There was a turning point in Patrick Donmoyer’s career studying Pennsylvania German culture when his work became more than a quest for knowledge and understanding. That’s when he began to see ...

It is not known when the first Pennsylvania German met an American Indian. Unlike the Pilgrim Fathers of Massachusetts or the Jamestown, Va. English, the local settlers had no William Bradford or ...

The Pennsylvania Dutch — the Census Bureau uses the more precise but less popular "Pennsylvania German" — are descendants of German settlers who came to the United States in the 17th and 18th ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Fassnachts, or fastnachts, depending on your spelling preference, is a PA German tradition baked up at ...

It’s possible to bring back memories of home-style Pennsylvania German cooking without having to leave the Lehigh Valley, according to readers who responded to a question asked in a Grazing ...

N. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - It was a celebration of all things Pennsylvania German, on Friday afternoon in Lehigh County. June 28 is officially designated by the state government to recognize the ...

WHAT: The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society will offer beginning and intermediate courses in Pennsylvania German under “Butch” Reigart's instruction. WHEN: March through May.

Can you trace the first use of the word “Dutch” (instead of Deutsche) when speaking of the Pennsylvania Germans? Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary gives 1824 as the first use date ...