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Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Summer 1972 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 4 Robert A. Barakat Louis Winkler Juliana Roth Robert L. Dluge Jr. Werner Hacker 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 Barakat, Robert A.; Winkler, Louis; Roth, Juliana; Dluge, Robert L. Jr.; Hacker, Werner; and Krebs, Friedrich, "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 4" (1972). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 49. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/49 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 Robert A. Barakat, Louis Winkler, Juliana Roth, Robert L. Dluge Jr., Werner Hacker, and Friedrich Krebs This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/49 SUMMER 1972 Contributors to this Issue ROBERT A. BARAKAT, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is studying for the Ph.D. degree in the Gra duate Folk­ lore and Folklife Department, University of Pennsylva­ nia. A native of Massa husetts, he has taught at Clark University, and has done extensive folk-cultural field work in Italy, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico. In the United States he has worked on traditional a rchitecture and othcr aspects of material culture in New England as well as Pennsylvania. His article in this issu e provides new analysis of two of Pennsylvania's earliest and most significant Germanic houses, the H err House of Lan­ caster County and the Zell er House of Lebanon County. DR. LOUIS WINKLER, State Coll ege, Pennsylvania, is a member of the Department of Astronomy at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Penn­ sylvania. In this iss ue he offers the second installment of his series on Pennsylvani a German concepts of as tronomy and astrology. JULIANA ROTH, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, IS studying for the doctorate in the Graduate Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylva­ nia. H er article in this issue was done in connection with a seminar in Pennsylvania German history and ethnography. ROBERT L. DLUGE, JR., Elysburg, Pennsylvania, is a recent graduate of Bloomsburg State College. His interview with a powwow doctor published in this issue was done in connection with a psychology course at the college. It is a welcome follow-up to other such inter­ views that have appeared in Pennsylvania Folklife. WERNER HACKER, of Frankfurt, West Germany, is a director of the German Federal R ailways. We are privileged in this issue to offer our readers a list of emigrants to America from his book, Auswanderungen aus dem friiheren H ochstift Speyer nach Siidosteuropa und U ebersee im XVIII. Iahrhundert (Speyer, 1969 ). The volume is No. 28 in the series Schriften zur Wan­ derungsgeschichte der Pfiilzer, published by the H eim­ a tstelle Pfalz, K aiserslau tern. DR. FRIEDRICH KREBS, Speyer, West Germany, recently retired from his position as archivist at the Palatine State Archive? in Speyer, has contributed a lengthy series of articles on 18th Century emigration to Pennsylvania and other colonies. His latest, in this issue, gives us details on emigrants from the former Duchy of Zweibriicken, the subject also of several of his earlier publications. EDITOR: SUMMER 1972, Vol. XXI, No. 4 Dr. Don Yoder EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Dr. M ac E . Barrick L eRoy Gensler Dr. H enry GIassie Dr. John A. H ostetler D avid J. Hufford Contents Dr. Phil Jack Dr. Hilda A. Kring Dr. Maurice A. Mook 2 The Herr and Zeller Houses Dr. Earl F. Robacker Dr. Alta Schrock R OBERT A. BARAKAT FOLK FESTIVAL DIRECTOR: Mark R. Eaby, Jr. 23 Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology II: The Moon FOLK FESTIVAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: LOUI WINKLER Peg Zecher SUBSCRIPTIONS: Doris E. Stief 28 Travel Journals as a Folklife Research Tool: Impressions of the Pennsylvania Germans PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLIFE, J ULIANA ROTH Summer 1972, Vol. 21, No.4, pub­ lished five times a year by the Penn­ sylvania Folklife Society, Inc., Lan­ 39 My Interview with a Powwower caster, P e nnsylvania. $1.50 for ROBERT L. DLUGE, JR. sing le copie s; Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. $1.00 for Folk Festival Supplement. Y ear! y sub­ 43 American Emigrants from the Territories of the scription $6.00. Bishropric of Speyer MSS AND PHOTOGRAPHS : WER ER HACKER The Editor will be glad to consider MSS and photographs sent with a 46 Emigrants to America from the Duchy of Zweibrucken view to publication. When unsuit­ able, and if .accompanied by return FRIEDRICH KREBS postage, every care will be exercised toward their return, although no Funeral Customs: responsibility for their safety is as­ Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 24 sumed. (Inside back cover) Editorial correspondence: Dr. Don Yoder, College Hall, Box 36, University of Pennsylvania, Contributors to this Issue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. ( Inside front cover) Folk Festival correspondence: College Blvd. and Vine, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530. Folk Festival public relations: Peg Zecher, 717 . Swarthmore Ave., Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081. COVER: America's pictorial magazines of the 19th Century are a pro­ Subscription, business co rrespondence: Box 1053, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. lific source for folklife illustrations. Our cover picture, a haying scene showing every step of the process from whetting the scythe Contents copyrighted. to hauling the load into the barn, comes from Gleason's Pictorial Entered as second class matter 'at Lancaster, Pa. (Boston), June 17, 1854. The HERR and By ROBERT A. BARAI{AT INTRODUCTION of buildings, and so on. Thus, if hi torieal ar ha ology Histori al I gy is a discipline y t to be is to flourish as a discipli n , those who are actively Icarly d fin d as r gards its scope, a im , and methods. engaged in it must b sUPI ort d with funds and stafT In thi it is in om what th sam' situation as for long-term proj ts, the onl y kind of proj t out of folklife studi s to whi h it b ars som r markable which m aningful data may be gleaned. r s mblanc s, 1 arti ul arl y th ir propos d aim and Folklife studi ,on the th r hand, attempts to study m th d. What hi tori al ar ha ology attempts to ac­ cultur on a regional basis and from fi Id work ane! compli sh is th r on truction of the past history of su bscquent analyscs orne to better understand that a town, vi ll age, or hous - whi h is th n r lated to culture in all of its variou aspe ts. Like historical th a tiviti sand b havior of those individuals and ar ha ology, folklife tudi s brings to b ar much th grou ps who inhabited th m. Unfortunatcly, th his­ same data from pictorial sour es, materi::t1 a pects of tori al ar ha ologi t i all d upon, more often than culture su h as h usc typ s, arrangement of farmsteads, not, to p rform a salvage 01 ration to r s u some of written and print d sources such a diarie, journals, th artifa ts and other featu r s from the bulldoz r. In d eds, wi ll s, and so on, and data from personal inter­ rar instan s is h a tually giv n th 01 p rtunity to views with individuals about folk practices; whether study in d tail th layout of towns, stru tural details those individuals be from higher or lower levels f soci- Plate I Front view of the H ans H err H ouse. Note the offset door) wood-framed windows and door) high pitched roof) central chimney) and holes in corners just left of and above south window. 2 ZELLER HOUSES ety does not matter. The point is simply that each for the historical archaeologist. Although the student person has information about his regional culture which of folklife observes such features on the cultural land­ might prove to be of great value to the investigator. scape as house and fence types, his method and aim is Moreover, both disciplines deal with diachronic as to type these traits, and by doing so better define the well as synchronic reconstructions, a fact that seems to region in which he is working. However, the folklife indicate their relationship to history, cultural anthropol­ student still uses data from the excavations and recon­ ogy, and to sociology. Indeed, it may be said with some structions made by the historical archaeologist to fill defi niteness that both historical archaeology and folk­ out his knowledge. It is, in fact, a requirement of any life studies complement each other in a way that few typology of material cultura l traits not only to chart other disciplines do. One may, for example, use the the distribution of extant items but also to consider other's data and sources to fill in the gaps in knowledge what examples come to light as the result of the ar­ and understanding, for it is only by applying conclusions chaeologist's digging.

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