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Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Spring 1972 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 3 Wasyl O. Luciw George Wynnysky Donald M. Hines Lester Breininger Louis Winkler See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag Part of the American Art and Architecture Commons, American Material Culture Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Cultural History Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Folklore Commons, Genealogy Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, History of Religion Commons, Linguistics Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Luciw, Wasyl O.; Wynnysky, George; Hines, Donald M.; Breininger, Lester; Winkler, Louis; Barrick, Mac E.; Hopple, C. Lee; and Krebs, Friedrich, "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 3" (1972). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 48. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/48 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Wasyl O. Luciw, George Wynnysky, Donald M. Hines, Lester Breininger, Louis Winkler, Mac E. Barrick, C. Lee Hopple, and Friedrich Krebs This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/48 SPRING 1 Contributors to this Issue DR. WASYL O . LUCIW, State College, Pennsylvania, native of New Jersey, he received his B.A. degree from is the Sl avic Bibliographer, Pattee Library, The Penn Rutgers University, the M .A. from Adelphi University, sylvania State University. After receiving his Ph.D. Long Island, and the Ph.D. from the University of degree from the University of Ottawa in 1954 he Pennsylvania. His research on Pennsylvania German served as Slavic Librarian at Yale University and astronomical and astrological ideas was sponsored by taught at St. Basil's College, Stamford, Connecticut, a grant from the CoIlege of Science, the Pennsylvania before coming to the Pennsylvania State University. State University. H e has published widely in the fi eld of Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American history and culture. Full DR. MAC E. BARRICK, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is biographical data on Dr. Luciw can be found in the Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Ship Dictionary of International Biography, 1971. pensburg State College, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. His article on fishing spears of Central Pennsylvania is GEORGE WYNNYSKY, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the latest in Dr. Barrick's series on the material folk was born of Ukrainian parentage in Germany, and culture of his home area, the Cumberland Valley. emigrated to the United States in 1949, settling in White H aven, Pennsylvania. From 1968 to 1972 he DR. LEE CHARLES HOPPLE, Bloomsburg, Penn was a student in the D epartment of Psychology, The sylvania, is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Penn now teaching geography at Bloomsburg State College. sylvania. We conclude in this issue his chapter on the geograph DR. DONALD M . HINES, Pullman, Washington, is ical spread of the plain sects in Southeastern Penn a member of the D epartment of English at the Wash sylvani a, from his doctoral dissertation, Spatial Devel ington State University. A graduate of Indiana Univer o jJment and I nternal Spatial Organization of the S outh sity, he co ntributes to this issue the survey of the history eastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community, Ph.D . of the development of folklife studies in the British Isles. dissertation in Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 1971. In our Winter issue (XXI: 2) we LESTER P. BREININGER, JR., Robesonia, Penn published his findings on the Amish and the M ennonites; sylvania, is a high school teacher in Berks County and in this iss ue we add those dealing with the Dunkards student of Pennsylvania German material culture. H e and the Schwenkfelders. is Editor of a new journal with the dialect title Die Shilgrut fun der Tulpehock (The Tulpehocken Turtle), DR. FRIEDRICH KREBS, Speyer, West Germany, was published annuall y by the Tulpehocken Settlement His recently retired as archivist at the Palatine State Ar torical Society at Womelsdorf, of which two issues have chives in Speyer. H e has contributed many articles to appeared, Volumes I-II (1970-1971). our journal dealing with 18th Century emigration to the New World, based on his researches in the archives DR. LOUIS WINKLER, State College, Pennsylvania, of West Germany. His article in this issue continues has been a member of the Department of Astronomy his se ries on 18th Century emigrants from the Rhine at the Pennsylvania State University since 1964. A land provinces. The Scottish photographs in the Hines article are re printed by courtesy of the National Museum of Antiq uities of Scotland, Edinburgh. Those on pages 8, 17, 18, and 19 were taken by Al exander Fenton in 1969, that on page 13 by J. Baldwin in 1971. The pho tographs from Yorkshire-a strong area for Quaker emigration to Pennsylvania- were furnished by Profes sor Stewart F. Sanderson, D irector, Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, The University, Leeds, England. SPRING 1972, Vol. XXI, No.3 EDITOR: Dr. Don Yoder EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Contents Dr. Mac E. Barrick LeRoy Gensler 2 The Ukrainian Py anka and Other Dr. H enry Glassie Decorated Easter Eggs in Penn ylvania WASYL LUCIW and GEORGE WYNNYSKY Dr. John A. H ostetler o. D avid J. Hufford 8 The Development of Folklife Research Dr. Phil J ack In the United Kingdom Dr. Hilda A. Kring D ONALD M . HINES Dr. Maurice A. M ook Dr. Earl F. Robacker 21 Just a Bone D r. Alta Schrock L ESTER P. BREININGE R,JR. SUB SCRIPTION RATES: 24 Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology: 1. Almanacs $6.00 a yea r in the U nited States LOUIS WINKLER and Canada. Single copie $1.50. 32 Central Pennsylvania Fishing Spears MSS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: MAC E. BARRICK The Editor will be glad to consider MSS and photographs sent with a 36 Spatial Development of the Southeastern view to publication. When unsuit Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community to 1970: Part II able, and if accomp~ ni e d by return postage, every care will be exer C. LEE HOPPLE ci ed toward their return, although 46 18th-Century Emigrants from the Palatinate, no responsibility for their safety is Lower Alsace, and Rheinhessen assumed. F RI EDRICH KREBS PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLIFE, Tobacco and Tobacco Culture: Spring 1972, Vol. 21 , o. 3, pub Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 23 lished fiv e times yearly by the Penn ( I nside Back Cover) ylvania Folklife Society, Inc., Lan- caster, Pennsylvania. Subscriptions Contributors to this Issue and bus i n e s s correspondence: Box (Inside Front Cover) 1053, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Ed itorial correspond e n ce: Dr. Don COVER: Yoder, College H all, Box 36, Uni Easter, the second most popular festival in the Christian world, versity of Pennsylvania, Philadel has produced a wide variety of folk forms. In this issue we fea phia, Pennsylvania 19104. Contents ture the Ukrainian Easter tradition in Pennsylvania. For compara copyrighted. tive materials, see Alfred L. Shoemaker, "Scr,atch-Carved Easter Eggs," The Dutchman, VI:4 (Spring 1955), 20-23, and Martha Entered as second class matter S. Best, "Easter Customs in the Lehigh Valley," Pennsylvania at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Fo1klife, XVll:3 (Spring 1968), 2-13. Lines of wax are applied by Mrs. Patrica Wynnysky of Bethlehem, Pennsyl vania. Sbe has also taken part in tours giving demonstrations on how to make the " pysanka." ./ / / Some of the dyes, wax pens, and other tools used to make the "pysanka."·/ All the pens, except for the first on the extreme left, are homemade. These are some basic lines used to section the egg. 2 Pysanli.a and Other DECORATED EASTER EGGS In Pennsylvania By WASYL O. LUCIW and GEORGE WYNNYSKY The Easter egg of the Slavic commumtles in Penn bear a similarity with Persian designs on carpets and sylvani a has come down to us from the Ukraine and mosaics. Not only each region, but each vi ll age, even other Slavic countries . In this article will be presented each family had its own particular motif or pattern in the background, symbolism, and techniques of the dec the execu tion of design ; no two were alike, yet all were orated Easter egg. One hopes that through this brief traditional, handed down from generation to generation. sketch this type of Slavic art will be better understood, Evolution of this art was not only limited to the appreciated, adopted and continued as part of Penn establishment of recognizable patterns, but also resulted sylvania's mosaic culture. in new methods of application of design to egg. Besides The making of pysanky (Easter eggs) is an old tradi simple colori ng, the oldest form of decorating eggs is tion. In the Ukraine, the egg has had a special signif call ed drapanky (scratchings). The name is fitting icance from ancient times. In the beginning it sym since the method is to color the egg and then scratch bolized the sun and the perpetuation of life. Even to away part of the coloring to impose a design. Another day, an exchange of eggs at Eas ter is an expression of form developed is krapanky. The name comes from the greeting. In another custom they are buried with the Ukrainian word for "drops." T o execute this method dead and serve as a symbol of resurrection.