Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Spring 1980 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 29, No. 3 William T. Parsons Ursinus College Mary Shuler Heimburger J. Howard Fenstermacher Amos Long Jr. A. Russell Slagle 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 Parsons, William T.; Heimburger, Mary Shuler; Fenstermacher, J. Howard; Long, Amos Jr.; Slagle, A. Russell; and Costello, John R., "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 29, No. 3" (1980). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 88. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/88 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 William T. Parsons, Mary Shuler Heimburger, J. Howard Fenstermacher, Amos Long Jr., A. Russell Slagle, and John R. Costello This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/88 (£olttril1utor~ A A, - LIZAB TH and SILAS SHUL - R were three off pring of amuel huler of Powder Valley, Lehigh (earlier North ampton) ounty and Frederick Township, Philade lphia (later M ontgomery) ounty. A a and ila migrated to Ohio, from when ce A sa and another brother, Amandu. , went to ali fornia for gold . Silas died a a res ult of the ivil War; - liza beth Shuler Rose nberger lived in Powder Valley until 1917. WILLIAM T . PAR ON i a Profe sor of Hi LOry MARY SHULER H EIMBURG R lives in Long Beach, and Director of the Penn ylva ni a German tudies Pro­ alif. and is a lec turer and writer on California gram at Ur inu ollege . H e ha bee n - ditor of genea logy and pioneer events. She is studying the Penn ylvania Folkllje ince 1978. He ha published peregrination of the Shuler fami ly members, in par­ book and monograph on Penn ylva ni a German and ticular, a biography of A a Shuler with emphas is on th e Quaker and article in Penn ylvania Hi to/y, Gold Ru sh ex peri ence. Sh e maintains active interest Penn ylvania Magazine oj History and Biog raphy, in ali fornia Pi oneer co llec tion and has had ome Quaker Histo/y and Swi s-A lII erican Hi torical ociety co ntact with the Huntington Library. Newslet ter. J . HOWARD ENSTERMA H R ha written loca l epi ode a feature co lumni t for Th e In dependent and MontgomelY Transcript of ollegcvillc under nu­ merou ed itors. He ha long taken a vigorou interest in co n ervation and hi toric pre erva tion and he bring devotion , per onal charm and loca l co lor to hi ub- ject. He erved in Bice ntennial fu nction and i AMO LONG, JR ., i a farmer and teacher in the contributing to the new Hi tory of Montgomery ounty. Lebanon ounty chool. He holds deg ree s from Lebanon Va lley and Temple. H e ha contributed numerou article and photographs to Pennsylvania Fo lkliJe and other regional periodica ls and new papers over th e past two deca de . H e i the author of Th e Pennsylvania German Family Farm and Farm­ stead and Their Buildings, both publi hed in 1972. A . RUS ELL SLAGL i a nati ve of Maryland ; he ea rn ed hi degree from Prince ton Univer ity and ha done pecia l work with Don Yoder in Folk ultura l Studies. Hi work in genea logy i well known and led to a book, The Slag le Family in America, publi hed in 1967 . He wrote "The chlegc l Fam ily and th e Ros icrucian Movement" for Pennsylvania Fo lklije in 1976. JOHN R. CO TELLO i a member of the Department of Lingui tics at New York Univer ity. He ha done field work on Penn ylva nia German in the Go chen­ hoppen area, and on Yiddish in New York City. Art icle by him on Penn ylvania German language and culture have appeared in Lingui tic and New York Folklore. DITOR : SPRING 1980, VOL. XXIX, No.3 William T . Par on DITORIALADVI ORY OMM ITT Mac E. Barrick Monroe H . Fabian CONTENTS John B. Frantz Thomas E. Gallagher, J r. Albert T . Gamon 98 Shuler Family Corre pondence Marie Graeff WILLIAM T . PRO & Howell J. Heaney AR Y HULER HEIMBURGER Heinrich Kelz arl F. Ro backer Karl cherer 114 Vestiges of the Markley Family ntje Sommer J . HOWARD FE TERM CHER FOLK F ESTIVAL DIRECTOR: Mark R. Eaby, Jr. 30 Years of the Kutztown Folk Festival FOLK FESTI VAL P UBLIC R LATION : 120 P eg Zecher - A Photo Essay SUBSCRIPTIO S: Nancy K. Gaugler 124 The Rural Village PE NSYLVA IA FOLKLIFE, AMOS LO G, JR. Spring 1980, Vol. 29, o . 3, pub- lished four times a year by Penn­ sylvania Folklife Society, Inc., P.O. 133 Father of the Fraternity: Christopher Box 92, Collegeville, Pa. 19426. Schlegel and Rosicrucianism $2.00 for single copies, Autumn, A. RUSSELL SLAGLE Winter & Spring. $1.50 for Summer. Yearly subscription $7.00; Back is­ sue, $2.50 each. 138 A Lexical Comparison of Two Sister MSS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: Languages: Pennsylvania Gennan and Yiddish The Editor will be glad to consider JOH R. COSTELLO MSS and photographs sent with a view to publication. When unsuit­ able, and if accompanied by return 143 Aides un Neies postage, care will be exercised to­ ward their return, although no re­ CONTRIBUTORS sponsibility for their safety is as­ (InsideJront cover) sU)11ed. Editorial correspondence: Dr. William T. Parsons COVER: P.O. Box 92, Lillian KauJJman at the Country Church organ. Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426 The charm, value, continuity and real strength oj ub cription, business correspondence: the Folk Festival since 1950 have been the indivi­ P .O. Box 92, dual participants. A Jew oj the many devoted Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426 workers appear in the anniversary story on page Folk Festival correspondence: 120. To all the workers in all the years oj Festival College Blvd . and Vine, we dedicate this issue. Kutztown, Penn ylvania 19530 Layout and Folk Festival public relations: Special Photography: Peg Zecher, 26 E. Knowlton Rd., WILLIAM MU RO Media, Pennsylvania 19063 Contents copyrighted. Entered as second class matter 31 Collegeville, Pa. ISS 003 1-4498 , \,' Shu1ep Rami1y I, eappespanclence ~ I ~ : J~ I By WILLIAM T. PARSONS and MARY SHULER HEIMBURGER 0)-~ L : "Asa in the Mines" from Asa W. Shuler's Cobey Bwook in Cal/afaney, 1849-1851. The two brothers Asa and Amandus Shuler and a re sixteen or seventeen letters to and from family Solomon Yeakel were among the large number of members. Although written in German script, even P ennsylvania Dutchmen who headed west to a nswer a quick peru al reveal that they are urely not com­ the lure of the California gold fields in 1849. H ow­ posed in High German. Indeed , an absolute require­ ever, because of li ghtly earlier move to the west­ ment for reading them i an intimate knowledge of ward on Evangelistic endeavors into Ohio, A a a nd local place a nd family na me and the ear for sound Mandes (the familiar usage of the second brother's that can only come from a lifetime of familiarity name) ventured out of Southern Ohio rather than from with dialect ounds. This is the real Pennsylfaanisch a Lehigh County, Pennsylva nia, location. In fact, one Deitsch which can till be heard in the Pulverdahl any or more of three generations of Shulers had owned warm Summer day. It is also the same A ldi Schprooch land in Northampton, Philadelphia and Lehigh Countie dozen of imilar characters from the Powder Valley from the 1750's to the 1840's. One Samuel Shuler and the territory between the Macoby a nd the Perki­ was born in Powder Valley, Upper Milford Township, omen Creeks bandy about at the annual meetings of Northampton County (later Lehigh County) PA, about Grundsau Lodsch #7 toward the end of April for the 1758. past thirty-odd year . Mary Shuler Heimburger (Mrs. Ray A.) of Long The letters presented here in dia lect Penn ylvania Beach, California, a direct de cendant of Samuel German and in Engli h translation have no plot nor Shuler today, has contributed information regarding any cohesive motif running through them. In a few this collection of major interest: Letters, journals and instance letters, notations or journal pa sage in Engli h papers which involve Asa Shuler, hi s relatives, business associates and friends from 1849 through the Civil War to 1897. She will develop material from those sources in a full- cale biography of Asa Shuler a nd has already lectured to numerous groups on the inci­ dent and personalitie described in the marvelou cache of folk and family lore from the mid-nineteenth century. Of all the most interesting Shuler paraphernalia, the items which are of particular interest to tudents of local folk culture in the form of dialect language, 98 only are appended or inter per ed in order to clarify for eni e in the nion rm), ompan) , 10 th or to fill a gap.