Monday, January 5, 2009

Oley Valley Pennsylvania Dutch Club - 7pm. Our Pennsylvania German Club meets in the Oley High School (17 Jefferson St Oley, PA 19547)  Rm 123 first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. We sing PA Dutch songs, talk PA Dutch, play games in the dialect, learn about the history of our people, talk over current events, have parties, and we write and translate and perform skits for the Oley Daal fersammling.

 Mount Zion, F.C.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Oley Valley Pennsylvania Dutch Club - 7pm. Our Pennsylvania German Club meets in the Oley High School (17 Jefferson St Oley, PA 19547)  Rm 123 first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. We sing PA Dutch songs, talk PA Dutch, play games in the dialect, learn about the history of our people, talk over current events, have parties, and we write and translate and perform skits for the Oley Daal fersammling.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 8:00am P
Dialect-Kultur

Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 5:00pm  P
P.G. Conversation Group  

H.A.C.C., Lebanon Campus

Friday, January 22, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 4, Fersommling No. 61

Quakertown, PA

Monday, January 26, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 9, Fersommling No. 55

Dublin F.C.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 15, Fersommling No. 43

Kutztown F.C.

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 1, Fersommling No. 73

Germansville F.C.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Family & Homeschool Workshop "A Valentine Workshop"  (repeated Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:30-5:00 p.m.)
Make Cutwork valentines and learn about the Pennsylvania German folk art of Scherenschnitte, (cutwork) and more...  More information (Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center)

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 2, Fersommling No. 72

Tylersport F.C.

Friday, February 6, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 11, Fersommling No. 52

Ashfield,  PA

Oley Valley Pennsylvania Dutch Club - 7pm. Our Pennsylvania German Club meets in the Oley High School (17 Jefferson St Oley, PA 19547)  Rm 123 first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. We sing PA Dutch songs, talk PA Dutch, play games in the dialect, learn about the history of our people, talk over current events, have parties, and we write and translate and perform skits for the Oley Daal fersammling.

Volunteer Tea 3pm (Daniel Boone Homestead)

Oley Valley Pennsylvania Dutch Club - 7pm. Our Pennsylvania German Club meets in the Oley High School (17 Jefferson St Oley, PA 19547)  Rm 123 first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. We sing PA Dutch songs, talk PA Dutch, play games in the dialect, learn about the history of our people, talk over current events, have parties, and we write and translate and perform skits for the Oley Daal fersammling.

Pennsylvania German Friends - 7pm. The Pennsylvania German Friends (Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch Freind) hold a regular meeting on the third Thursday of most months at St Peter's Lutheran Church, 1933
Hanover Avenue, Allentown. The gatherings are free and open to the public.  Various aspects of the heritage and dialect of the Pennsylvania Dutch people in the Lehigh Valley are highlighted. The ability to converse in the dialect is not necessary, although some familiarity is helpful. For further information, call 610-264-2979.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 8:00am P
Dialect-Kultur

Friday, February 20, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 6, Fersommling No. 59

Kresgeville,  PA

H.A.C.C., Lebanon Campus

Monday, March 1, 2009

Oley Valley Pennsylvania Dutch Club - 7pm. Our Pennsylvania German Club meets in the Oley High School (17 Jefferson St Oley, PA 19547)  Rm 123 first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. We sing PA Dutch songs, talk PA Dutch, play games in the dialect, learn about the history of our people, talk over current events, have parties, and we write and translate and perform skits for the Oley Daal fersammling.

Tuesday, March  3, 2009 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Family & Homeschool Workshop "German Fairy Tales and Folklore" repeated Thursday, March 5, 2009 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Discover the German folktales and legends possibly known by the Schwenkfelders featured in our Stacy Clark exhibit.  More information (Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center)

CHARTER DAY - Open House 12-5pm— First Pennsylvania Regiment Flintlock Shoot (Daniel Boone Homestead)

Wednesday and Thursdays, March 11 or 12, 2009  (through May 13 or 14)
Mennonite Historical Society offers Pennsylvania Dutch classes

Learn to speak Pennsylvania Dutch with your Amish and Mennonite neighbors. Recapture a piece of your Pennsylvania German family history. This spring the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society is offering ten-week classes in the Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture. The Society is the only educational institution in Lancaster County to offer these courses. The new class for beginners with no prior background will be held Thursdays, starting March 12. The Part Two beginners’ class, for those with one semester or more prior experience in Pennsylvania Dutch, will be held Wednesdays, starting March 11. Both classes meet from 7-9 pm at Society headquarters, 2215 Millstream Road, just off Route 30, next to Tanger Outlets, across from Starbucks. Cost is $100 for members, $115 for nonmembers. The series culminates with a meal in an Amish home. All are welcome. More information is available at (717) 393-9745. Courses will be taught by Butch Reigart, fluent Pennsylvania Dutch speaker originally from York County, PA, and former foreign language specialist for the U.S. Government. Butch’s interactive teaching style includes dialogues, songs, stories, history and cultural practices of the Plain People, for whom it is a living language.

Friday, March 13, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 18, Om Gross Forelle Grick No. 18

Emerald FC

Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 9:00 to 3:00pm 
WORKSHOP "Three BIG Ts: The Trinity of Text — Tone — Tune" Hedda Durnbaugh, M.A., M.A.L.S.

Young Center, Elizabethtown College
This workshop will examine how the three elements that make up a hymn act upon one another. Participants will first learn to analyze each separately, and then learn to apply this basic understanding to the process of choosing hymns for certain occasions. In keeping with the Young Center's historical and cultural emphases, the material will be taken from both Anglo-American and German-American hymnody, with consideration of the unique natures of the two strains. The workshop will include singing and discussion. Participants are invited to bring a favorite hymn.

Durnbaugh, a native of Austria and longtime resident of the U.S., is a language teacher and translator, and a hymnologist specializing in German and Scandinavian hymnody. In particular, she has studied, lectured, and written about the hymnodies of German immigrant groups to America. Her publications include one monograph, The German Hymnody of the Brethren 1720-1903 (Philadelphia: The Brethren Encyclopedia, Inc., 1986), Praises Resound! (Oslo: Norsk Musikforlag, 1991), chapters in books, and numerous articles in various scholarly journals.

Cost of the workshop, which includes lunch, is $10.00, and registration is required by March 6. For more information contact the Young Center at Elizabethtown College Phone (717) 361-1470; Fax (717) 361-1443 e-mail: youngctr@etown.edu  (The Young Center)
 

Women's History Round Table - "Beyond Beer" presented by Clarissa F. Dillon 2pm (Daniel Boone Homestead)

Monday, March 16, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 16, Fersommling No. 38

North Whitehall Ambulance

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 14, Fersommling No. 47

Lower Milford FC

14th Annual Pennsylvania German Heritage Festival

For more information click to see flyer

Click here for Schedule of Events

 (Pennsylvania German Studies Program, Lebanon Campus, Harrisburg Area Community College)

H.A.C.C., Lebanon Campus

March 26 & 27, 2009

DURNBAUGH LECTURES James W. Lowry, M.A.

Young Center, Elizabethtown College

James W. Lowry is the author of four books, most recently Documents of Brotherly Love: Dutch Mennonite Aid to Swiss Anabaptists 1635-1709 (Ohio Amish Library, 2007). He has also written articles for publications such as Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage and Mennonite Life. Lowry holds a master's degree in Classics from University of Chicago.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:30 p.m.

"Adventures in Research: The Amsterdam Archives Project and Documents of Brotherly Love"

Lowry will discuss his work translating records from the Dutch Mennonite archives related to aid that Mennonites in the Netherlands gave to Swiss and German Mennonite refugees prior to their migration to Pennsylvania and other places. He will also describe the origins of the Amsterdam Archives project and various unexpected occurences during his research.

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Friday, March 27, 2009 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

"Swiss Anabaptists to the Palatinate and on to the New World"

In this seminar, Lowry will describe the course of events of the renewed persecution by the Reformed Church in Switzerland. With refugees swamping the small Mennonite communities in Alsace and the Palatinate, the Dutch Mennonites intervened financially. Ultimately, they aided in the first tricklings of immigration into the New World. The discussion will cover a previously unilluminated period of Anabaptist history from 1635 through 1709.

Cost of the seminar, which includes lunch, is $10.00, and registration is required by March 16. For more information contact the Young Center at Elizabethtown College Phone (717) 361-1470; Fax (717) 361-1443 e-mail: youngctr@etown.edu  (The Young Center)

Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29, 2009
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsman Spring Fine Art & Crafts Festival
The Reading-Berks & Lehigh Valley Chapters of the Guild host their Festival  at Kutztown University Field House**.  Come see a wonderful selection of artisans, music and food. There will also be arts and crafts available for sale. Look for the Heritage Center booth with a varied selection of new and classic books about the culture and history of this area.   More information

Monday, April 6, 2009

Oley Valley Pennsylvania Dutch Club - 7pm. Our Pennsylvania German Club meets in the Oley High School (17 Jefferson St Oley, PA 19547)  Rm 123 first and third Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. We sing PA Dutch songs, talk PA Dutch, play games in the dialect, learn about the history of our people, talk over current events, have parties, and we write and translate and perform skits for the Oley Daal fersammling.

Friday April 10, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 5, Fersommling No. 62  

Masonic Lodge, Pine Grove

Friday April 13, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Baerricks Kounty Fersommling No. 70   

Leesport Farmers Market

A reception for Gibble will follow the lecture.  For more information contact the Young Center at Elizabethtown College Phone (717) 361-1470; Fax (717) 361-1443 e-mail: youngctr@etown.edu  (The Young Center)

Tuesday April 23, 2009 - 6:30pm  P
Grund Sau No. 7, Fersommling No. 58    

E. Greenville FC

April 25-26, 2009 (10 am to 4 pm)
Old Time Plow Boys spring plowing show
Barrel rides, wagon rides around the property, children's games and crafts, food available, NO FEES FOR PARKING OR ADMISSION.

Friday, May 1, 2009 - 10 am
Pennsylvania German Hour (first friday of every month) 60min

Berks Community Television (BCTV)

Hosted and Produced by:Dale Schwoyer Replays on Saturday at 9 pm, Tuesday at 1pm.

CHILDRENS DAY - Open House 12-5pm— First Pennsylvania Regiment Flintlock Shoot (Daniel Boone Homestead)

May 4 through 15, 2009

Heritage Trip to Germany (sponsored by PGCHC and the Pastorius Tours)

This trip includes roundtrip airfare, in-flight meals, all over night accommodations with two meals daily, all scheduled tours and admission fees. We will be touring in a modern German tour coach and your tour escorts will be from Kutztown and Germansville (bi-lingual), Pennsylvania. Click link for downloadable flyer. Contact Darlene Moyer via email at dmoyer@kutztown.edu or call at (484) 646-4172

June

July

Monday through Thursday, July 27-30, 2009 at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center
Pennsylvania German Children’s Cultural Camp in the morning
Pennsylvania German Yunge (Older Children) Cultural Camp in the afternoon

Contact Darlene Moyer 484-646-4172

August

Saturday, August. 1, 2009

Heritage Days.

A celebration of the farm life and culture. 1899 Hans Herr Dr., Willow Street, PA. 717-464-4438.(Hans Herr House)

Saturday and Sunday, August 8-9, 2009 at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center
Old Time Plow Boys plowing show and the Pennsylvania Artist Blacksmith Association Show

September

September 12, 2009

Genealogy Conference 

The Heritage Center Library will be holding a Genealogy Conference with Don Yoder as the Keynote Speaker. For more information contact Lucy Kern (484) 646-4165 or email: pagermanlibary@kutztown.edu

October

October 17-18, 2009
Heritage Harvest Fescht
Come to the Heritage Center to experience Pennsylvania German music, food, crafts and different farm activities. This event is children and family friendly. Local artisans will come to demonstrate their crafts and display their art. Demonstrations will occur daily in the farmhouse museum and at different locations on the heritage center complex. Several non-profit groups will be on site to pass out information. The historical farmhouse will be open for tours and other buildings such as the summer house, the bank barn and one of the log houses will also be open.  Inside the log home will be a carpenter's tool exhibit.  The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center’s mission is to educate and disseminate information to the community on the history and culture of the Pennsylvania Germans and rural life in southeastern Pennsylvania

November

December

Saturday, December 5, 2009
Christmas on the Farm
FREE admission.  PGCHC invites you to Christmas on the Farm to share with us many holiday traditions of the Pennsylvania Germans. There will also be many other activities going on throughout the day.  The Belsnickel will be visiting, and carolers will be roaming the farm singing Christmas carols in the dialect.  For the Kids, there will also be farm animals, and farm equipment demonstrations in the barn.  Our affiliate groups will also be helping make the event a success. The Old Time Plow Boys will also have their kitchen open so be sure to stop by and get a warm bite to eat.  Craftsmen from the Reading Berks Guild of Craftsmen will be selling their wares and demonstrating.  Also, The Pennsylvania German Society will be present to give out information and will be having a member’s only book sale in conjunction with our event.

Saturday, December 6, 2009

A Homestead Christmas (Daniel Boone Homestead)