Patrick “Porcupine Pat” McKinney, a well-known Schuylkill County naturalist, will discuss Pennsylvania Dutch folk healing at ...

Instead, it is actually an example of Pennsylvania Dutch, a Germanic language that emerged in the 18th Century and is now mostly used by the Amish and Mennonite religious communities. Due to the ...

Young Pennsylvania German women used show towels to display their handiness with a needle in order to entice prospective ...

Every year, a mysterious group of men in top hats and suits summon Punxsutawney Phil from his stump to make his winter weather prediction.

Get yourself to Gobbler’s Knob and prepare to meet Punxsutawney Phil – it’s time for Groundhog Day 2025. If you don’t know what any of that means, have no fear. There’s absolutely no real reason why ...

You say Groundhog Day, I say Grundsaudaag: how German and Swiss settlers in Pennsylvania created a new language – and a much-loved American holiday. So what exactly is Pennsylvania Dutch?