READING – It’s hip to be Deitsch. That’s good news for Pop-Pop, bad news if you bet the farm that Pennsylvania German would disappear from the face of the Earth during your lifetime. But it’s still ...

READING, Pa. — It’s hip to be Deitsch. That’s good news for Pop-Pop, bad news if you bet the farm that Pennsylvania German would disappear from the face of the Earth during your lifetime. But it’s ...

Wann du des lese kannscht, dann wescht Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch. If you can’t understand that previous sentence, then maybe you don’t speak or understand Pennsylvania Dutch. But perhaps you’ve heard ...

Did you hear the one about the politician and what that guy said to him? Oh, wait, to really get this, you have to know the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. That’s what it will take to be able to ...

At one time in the Lehigh Valley, many people spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There were sections of the paper devoted to the dialect, and speakers gathered at Versommlings and Grundsau Lodsch ...

Pennsylvania Dutch is David Adam’s first language. Today, Adam and his wife Jean, both 76 of Orefield, instruct classes on the dialect and put on skits for attendees at the Kutztown Folk Festival.

Bradley K. Smith, assistant director and archivist of the Berks History Center, has been recognized for his work in promoting and helping to preserve the Pennsylvania Dutch language. The center ...

As the Kutztown Folk Festival came to a close Sunday, vendors wrapped up hex signs, finished the last of the apple butter, packed up barrels of birch beer and put fiddles back into their cases. For ...

Dr. C. Richard Beam, Millersville guru of Pennsylvania German, said at the time that the only way to begin to figure the number of Dutch in Lancaster County would be to count the residents who ...

Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Millstream Road, will be hosting two, ten-week courses on the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. A beginner class will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays from Sept ...