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JAMESTOWN, N.D. - Sabrina Hornung comes from a family with a strong German heritage. She is exploring some of that heritage by learning the German art of cut paper called scherenschnitte. Hornung is ...
For some it was a walk down memory lane. For others it was a glimpse at their heritage. And for a few it felt like going home. The Heemet Fescht brought culture to life. Held at the Pennsylvania ...
Pam Hults and her husband John are Lititz-based artists keeping two traditional Pennsylvania German folk art forms alive. They’ve combined Fraktur, an illuminated calligraphic drawing style popular in ...
BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. - One of the first things to greet visitors at the Berks County Heritage Center is once again shining bright. The Distelfink statue, a colorful, stylized bird rooted in Pennsylvania ...
Remember when you were a kid and you used folded pieces of paper and a big pair of scissors to create geometric snowflakes, which your mom always hung on the windows or refrigerator door? Yeah, well, ...
For as long as she can remember it sat in the large, cherry, cabinet tucked into a corner inside her parents’ home. Behind the glass windows, among the sets of china and beside a big, tin coffee pot, ...
Deputy Dr. Haupt, a Nazi Deputy for Hanover, speaking in the Prussian Parliament, accused the Jews of dominating the German theatre, film, radio and painting. The German stage has become a Jewish ...