Die Gluft : a potpourri of stories of the Pennsylvania German region of the Lebanon Valley /
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Author / Creator: | Zug, John W. |
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Imprint: | Marion, PA : Pennsylvania German Society, 2022 ©2023. |
Description: | 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pennsylvania German Society ; volume 56 Pennsylvania German Society (Series) ; v. 56. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13309312 |
Table of Contents:
- Pennsylvania German dialect
- Early schools
- The good old days
- Almshouse
- Trolleys
- Town life
- Farming, threshing and farm life
- Amusements
- The blacksmith
- Funerals
- Gardening
- Soap making
- Butchering
- Union canal
- Picnic
- Robesonia Furnace
- Barn raising
- Chocolate making
- Recipes
- The Paw Paw tree
- Pow-wow and hexes
- Herbs and medicine
- Medicine show
- The Belsnickel
- Bull-banding
- Halloween
- Da Ewich Yeager
- Conrad Weiser
- Charming Forge
- Ghosts
- Sheetz tragedy
- Gypsies
- The ice man
- Reminiscences
- Baron Henry W. von Siegel
- The old country
- World War II
- Quilting
- Bee keeping
- Old buildings
- The tobacco industry
- Trains
- Water seeking
- The Lechners
- The almanac
- Lime kilns
- Toys and games
- Pottery
- Mailman
- Corn and husking bee
- Whiskey making
- South Mountain Sanitorium and resorts.