Lancaster County tourists can get the true VIP experience the Amish way. The Amish Experience has connected visitors with a ...

Rachel Yoder started painting hex signs as a way to reconnect to her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, and now wants her folk art to help others connect to their culture, too.

All shared information related to the culture and heritage of the PA Dutch. A display of old fashioned toys drew the attention of many and provided challenges for those who attempted to use them, too.

Pennsylvania Dutch is a distant relative of southern German dialects spoken by immigrants in the 1700s. When those dialects were cut off from Europe, they evolved into what is known today as ...

The film features Leanne Mock, who introduces viewers to Pennsylvania Dutch country, highlighting its historical significance and cultural heritage. Set in a historic village, she describes the ...

The roots of the Lancaster County tourist trade, says food historian William Woys Weaver, helped spread both the folklore and “fakelore” of Pennsylvania Dutch cooking.

WHITEHALL TWP. — The old Pennsylvania Dutch word for rain, according to some online dictionaries, is “regga.” But a little drizzle, or “soodle wedder,” as some Pennsyl… ...

A new documentary making its way across the U.S. – “Hiwee wie Driwwe – The Roots of PA Dutch” – was shown to a sold-out audience at the 2019 Kutztown Folk Festival. &#… ...

Pennsylvania German — synonymous to Pennsylvania Dutch, the heritage celebrated by the long-running festival — is one of the ancestries tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community ...

The Pennsylvania Dutch or the Pennsylvania Germans are descendants of German speaking people who settled in Pennsylvania. They brought with them many customs, traditions and skills that many ...

The Easter Bunny, as we know it, might have originated in Schuylkill County. Johann Conrad Gilbert (1734-1812), is credited with drawing one of the first depictions of an Easter rabbit when he live… ...