Author: Philip Columbus CrollPublisher:
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Category : Conrad Weiser Memorial Park (Berks County, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Conrad Weiser and His Memorial Park
Author: Philip Columbus CrollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conrad Weiser Memorial Park (Berks County, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Memorial to Col. Conrad Weiser
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Weiser Family
Author: John Conrad Weiser Family AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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The Conrad Weiser Area
Author: Carl GansterPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439651620
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In 1729, John Conrad Weiser, the most famous citizen of the area, joined his fellow Germans and built his homestead just east of present-day Womelsdorf. The settlement grew in the 1800s with a turnpike, a canal, a railroad, and more highways. Villages were started, and three became boroughs. Womelsdorf is the oldest borough in the western part of Berks County, while Robesonia and Wernersville were railroad towns laid out in the 1850s. Some remain villages to this day. Stouchsburg grew up around the turnpike and the canal. Charming Forge was the first industry in the area, and the village still looks like it did 200 years ago. The remaining parts of the area are rural, and some of the best growing soil is found in the Conrad Weiser area. In 1954, seven municipalities joined to form the Conrad Weiser Area School District. This book covers photographs from 1900 until the 1960s and includes all municipalities.
The National Register of Historic Places
Author: The National Register of Historic Places, 1972
Author: Colonials and Patriots
Author: Frank B. SarlesPublisher: Washington : U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Report
Author: Pennsylvania Historical CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Serious Nonsense
Author: William W. DonnerPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Versammlinge—community events filled with songs, performances, speeches, and skits that celebrate Pennsylvania German heritage and culture—are held entirely in the Pennsylvania German Deitsch language. Some, the “groundhog lodges,” feature a ceremony honoring the groundhog, while others do not. These unique meetings, expressions of a distinctive ethnic identity in the context of a rapidly changing society, have become a traditional mainstay among Pennsylvania Germans who have worked to preserve their language and culture into the twenty-first century. Serious Nonsense introduces readers to Pennsylvania German cultural practices that tourists rarely see and that outsiders, including most scholars, rarely learn about. The book explores the origins of the versammlinge and details the practice’s significance since the 1930s, when the first meetings of the Pennsylvania German groundhog lodges were held. Much as they did then, versammlinge today follow a pattern of prayers, patriotism, and speeches extolling values associated with Pennsylvania German identity, as well as theatrical and oral events that humorously contrast a simpler past with a more complex and confusing present. And the groundhog lodges feature one Pennsylvania German tradition that has become familiar in popular culture: groundhog weather prognostication.
Bulletin
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Reference BureauPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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