The Pennsylvania Dutch have a long tradition of folk medicine, also referred to as “braucherei” or powwowing. To many outside of the culture, those practices are perhaps best known because of ...

For Douglas Madenford, who has spoken Pennsylvania Dutch all his life ... of immigrating in the hopes of assimilating to American culture and society. My forefathers decided that yes, assimilation ...

"Heemet Fescht is a fall celebration exploring the traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the folk culture of the broader region. We emphasize the idea of 'Heemet' (pronounced HAY-met), meaning ...

'America's Newsroom' co-anchor Bill Hemmer breaks down the latest polling in the presidential race. James Blair, the RNC and ...

If home is where the heart is, it may be beneficial to have a blessing carved in stone on the front. While date stones ...

The Belsnickel tradition began somewhere in this region. "When you talk about the Pennsylvania Dutch culture, you have the south central Pennsylvania from Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading ...

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As the holiday season approaches and darkness settles in earlier each evening, the soft glow of candles placed in wind ...

Republicans could see a boost in Pennsylvania from a demographic rarely seen at the polls: the Amish. The state’s famed “Pennsylvania Dutch” registered to vote in “unprecedented numbers ...

Eleven people were hospitalized after they ate wild and apparently toxic mushrooms last week, a fire agency that serves Pennsylvania Dutch Country said. The patients in Peach Bottom Township were ...

“The spotlight the case put on both powwowing and Pennsylvania Dutch culture as backward and even dangerous,” Higgins writes, “changed the contours of powwowing forever.” But it hasn’t ...