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September 2014 Heritage Headlines Volume 17, Issue 3 INSIDE Page 2 and 3: A VERY GOOD YEAR Upcoming Exhibits Last year was a very good year for the Candace Honored Heritage Center thanks to the warm support of Exhibit Workshop Wish List item our friends, Board members, volunteers, and guests. In 2013 more than 7,000 visitors came Page 4 and 5: to the Heritage Center to see our exhibits, Homeschool Workshops research their genealogy, and learn about local Adult and Children’s Education Programs history. Our collections grew as people donated treasured objects to be saved and shared with Page 6: future generations. Our educational programs Exile Meeting engaged children in understanding their heritage Friends Program Heritage Tour through fun activities. And our annual fund campaign achieved success, enabling the Heritage Center to maintain qualified staff and a Page 7: beautiful building to house our important collection, present our excellent programs, and Christmas Market welcome you! New Intern Public Speaking Program This summer, our Brown Bag Lunch series on Schwenkfelder and local history related topics was very popular. John P. Diefenderfer’s colorful paintings of Amish life in Lancaster Page 8: County can be enjoyed through September 28. Common Threads, our dazzling textile exhibition, in Day of Remembrance PA State Senate Honor collaboration with the Goschenhoppen Historians and the Mennonite Heritage Center, closes Buy a Brick! October 31 – don’t miss it! While you are here, enjoy a tour of historic architecture, captured in turn-of-the-century photographs by H. Winslow Fegley. Here, images of our Pennsylvania Page 9: German past have been preserved for posterity. Yeakel Cemetery Library and Archives New Additions This year continues to be an exciting one! Our 2014 Heritage Tour to historic Schwenkfelder sites in Germany and Poland departs September 24, fully subscribed. In Page 10: November, an exhibition of the popular Susan Feller’s works entitled Brown Bag Lunches Luz and Viehmeyer From Garden to Table opens. Expect wonderful fabric art among at Polish Seminar other pieces! Our Children's Book Club inaugurates this fall. And, based on the sellout success of this year’s event, we are planning our Page 11: third annual Penn Dry Goods Market, to take place May 15 – 16, 2015. Fall Programs and Exhibits Mark your calendars! Page 12: We are pleased to welcome Rachel Osborn, CFRE, as our new Annual Fund Development Officer. Having joined us in May, Rachel brings a wealth of fundraising expertise to this new position. “The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage 105 Seminary Street Center is the product of astounding dedication by a remarkable group of people. It deserves Pennsburg, PA 18073-1898 to be broadly known and appreciated. I look forward to working with our friends and donors Phone: 215.679.3103 to promote the work of the Heritage Center, its collections, its legacy, and its future.” Fax: 215.679.8175 [email protected] The Montgomery County countryside is particularly beautiful this year. We www.schwenkfelder.com are proud to preserve the heritage of this community. Plan to visit the Heritage Center soon! 1 2 Heritage Headlines www.schwenkfelder.com Volume 17, Issue 3 COMMON THREADS: SELECTIONS FROM THE TEXTILE COLLECTIONS OF THE GOSCHENHOPPEN HISTORIANS MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTER SCHWENKFELDER LIBRARY & HERITAGE CENTER Fraktur Gallery, Through October 31 Visitors to the Heritage Center will experience the rich variety of textiles that each institution holds in its collections – from amazing and seldom-seen quilts of the Goschenhoppen Historians, to clothing and personal accessories from all three institutions, to decorated hand towels, samplers, and all types of extraordinary needlework that was produced by Pennsylvania German women from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. You will be dazzled at the variety, the color, and the beauty of our textiles and the skillfulness of our local women and men. THE THE ART OF JOHN P. DIEFENDERFER PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH Meeting Room, Through September 28 HISTORIC LANDSCAPE: SELECTIONS Painter and historian Diefenderfer is sharing his FROM THE colorful depictions of Amish life in Lancaster County SCHWENKFELDER LIBRARY with our visitors in this vibrant special exhibit. & HERITAGE CENTER’S PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION Art Gallery, Through March 1, 2015 This photographic tour of southeastern and central Pennsylvania highlights historic architecture that may still be in existence but also many structures that have disappeared or been altered which, through the foresight of H. Winslow Fegley and other photographers, was preserved for perpetuity. This exhibit is sponsored through a generous grant from The Shelley Pennsylva- nia German Heritage Fund. THE WOODLAND COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS First Floor Galleries, November 15 – March 1, 2015 CHRISTMAS PUTZ 2014 Schwenkfelder descendants and friends of the Heritage Center, Gloria and Kevin Woodland, have A PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH FARM collected antique and vintage Christmas decorations for First Floor Galleries, November 1 – March 1, 2015 decades. Now they have consented to share a bit of For our annual Christmas Putz this year we’re their amazing collection with our visitors. If you are a reviving a popular theme – the Pennsylvania Dutch fan of the whimsical glass European ornaments and other Farm – which will incorporate all the wonderful hand- holiday embellishments of years past, or want to learn made farm buildings from our Putz collection and all of more about them, this is an excellent opportunity to the animals, people, vehicles and activities you might view a superb and well-curated collection of rare pieces. have found on an early 20th century farm. It’s a great Combined with our annual Christmas Putz, it is a display complement to our Pennsylvania Dutch Historic Land- sure to put even the biggest Scrooge in the mood to scape exhibit, even if our Putz landscape is imaginary deck the halls! and fanciful, and sometimes the animals are much larg- er than the people! 3 www.schwenkfelder.com Volume 17, Issue 3 Heritage Headlines FROM GARDEN TO TABLE: A HARVEST OF CONTEMPORARY HOOKED RUGS AND FOLK ART FROM THE HERITAGE CENTER COLLECTION Fraktur Gallery, November 15 – March 1, 2015 This winter season we will be partnering with our good friend Susan Feller, artist and hooked rug designer, on an exhibit titled “From Garden to Table,” which will feature contemporary hooked rugs with fruit and vegetable themes and a wonderful group of Thomas Gerhart, Pennsylvania German Society related objects from our collection. (PGS) Chairman, presents Certificate of Merit to Candace You’ve never seen so much wax Kintzer Perry for her extraordinary work in preserving fruit in one location! Come and the Pennsylvania German heritage as Curator of partake of a bit of summer’s bounty Collections at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage when the winter cold is upon us. Center, at the Annual meeting of the PGS, Saturday, June 7, 2014, at St. John’s (Hain’s) Church, Wernersville, PA. Photo by Jenn Glosser. CREATE A MINI SEWN AND EMBROIDERED FLOWER MAT With Artist Susan Feller Saturday, November 15, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm A WISH LIST NEED FOR $25.00 per person COLLECTION REFERENCE In conjunction with our “From Garden to Table” Our Curator of Collections, Candace Perry, has exhibit, join us for a fun workshop to make your mat or brought to our attention her needlework picture designed after one of the rugs wish for the book: Wearable featured in the exhibit. Attendees will be using quilting, Prints 1760-1860, by Susan hooking, and embroidery techniques. Basic sewing Greene, to be added to the ability is necessary, but understanding rug hooking is Heritage Center Library optional. Please bring your own needles and thread and collection for research and a brown bag lunch; all other supplies will be provided. The reference. Purchase of the fee is just $25 and seating is limited. To register, contact book is $85. However, if Joanne at [email protected] or at 215-679-3103. you would like to donate a copy of the book, this would be gratefully appre- ciated VALLEY FORGE RUG BRAIDERS EXHIBIT November 8 – February 7, 2015 Meeting Room Join us this winter for a special exhibit of the work of the Valley Forge Rug Braiders. These are NOT your grandmother’s braided rugs! The charming warmth of these creations is the perfect antidote for a cold winter’s day. Heart with Multistrand Border by Christine Manges 4 Heritage Headlines www.schwenkfelder.com Volume 17, Issue 3 HOMESCHOOL WORKSHOPS Family and homeschool workshops resume in September. Themes and activities are based on temporary and permanent Pennsylvania Landscapes exhibition topics, gallery discussions, and related Pennsylva- Tuesday, September 16, 1:30 – 3:00 pm nia history. Each workshop is $5 per participant. Parents are View the vibrant paintings of John P. Diefenderfer. welcome to participate in the activities. Most lessons and His paintings of Pennsylvania agricultural scenes show the activities are designed for the elementary and middle level, daily lives of Amish life as well as Pennsylvania German but some exceptions apply. Please register for workshops by countryside scenes. After viewing these vibrant works of art, calling Museum Educator Laura Price at 215-679-3103. we will paint our own countryside scenes of Pennsylvania. Bring in a picture of Pennsylvania’s landscape or pictures will be Roads Leading to the Revolutionary War available to choose from to base your painting on. You will Tuesday, November 11, 1:30 – 3:00 pm have a beautiful piece of artwork to take home! Day of Remembrance, Gedächtnistag “No Taxation without Representa- tion!” Learn about the causes that led Tuesday, September 23, 1:30 – 3:00 pm colonists down the road to the Revolutionary When Schwenkfelders first War. Join us for crafts and activities and landed in Pennsylvania in 1734, they enjoy our own version of a tea party.