The Amish population in North America nearly doubles every 20 years, according to a 2023 study by Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This suggests the number of ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — As a youngster growing up with Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking parents, Oscar Crist had little use for the dialect. If he wasn’t learning “bad words,” he tended to tune it out. “I had a ...

What? Celebrating the groundhog? Yes, there was a wonderful Pennsylvania German (Dutch) celebration especially for youth on Saturday, Jan. 31, sponsored by the Pennsylvania German Zammelaaf a 501(c)(3 ...

Facebook brought them in and YouTube helped get them started, as dozens of eastern Pennsylvania residents gathered in Lehigh County for the preservation of something that once belonged to their ...

The Fersommling traditionally held Easter Monday at Leesport Market is the state’s largest annual Pennsylvania Dutch ...

It’s a language that was a cornerstone of life for European immigrants and is still spoken fluently in thriving Amish and Mennonite communities across North America and beyond. Longtime Lehigh Valley ...