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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement Richard Shaner Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Summer 1978 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement Richard Shaner Tom Ahern Theodore W. Jentsch Mary E. Sise Robert W. Murphy 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 Shaner, Richard; Ahern, Tom; Jentsch, Theodore W.; Sise, Mary E.; Murphy, Robert W.; Stinsmen, John E.; McFarland, Barry; Forster, Paul E.; Denney, Anne E.; Angstadt, Kristen R.; Robacker, Earl F.; and Robacker, Ada, "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement" (1978). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 80. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/80 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 Richard Shaner, Tom Ahern, Theodore W. Jentsch, Mary E. Sise, Robert W. Murphy, John E. Stinsmen, Barry McFarland, Paul E. Forster, Anne E. Denney, Kristen R. Angstadt, Earl F. Robacker, and Ada Robacker This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/80 places to see _. • • • in tht Ptn.nsyluania Dutth Country ~ > ~~ t4e ~~ 1~ 1e4tWat! Birthplace of Daniel o Boone - America's Great Frontiersman. Daniel Boone Homestead , off Rt. 422 , east of Reading. " A museum of the Pa. pioneer. " The story of the Boone family who settled and lived here until Daniel was 16 years old. Restored 18th cen . home, log cabin , bank barn and up-'n-down sawmill. Admin. by The Pa. Historical & Museum Com . - Visitors center. Open wk. dys. 8:30 ~I~!!!:!i;i~::~•• ~ a.m. to 5 p.m. - Sun . 1 :00 to 5 p.m . i €) Cannon for Washington ....---~r.~ and Stoves for Philadelphia. Hopewell Village - 6 mi. s. of Birdsboro on Rt . 345 . Est. in 1770 by Mark Bird, the restored village and furnace presents authentic picture of life in an early iron-making community. Admin. by the U.S. Dept. of Interior, Nat. Park Service - Visitors center. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. €) A Japanese Battle Pagoda on the Skyline of Reading, Pa. Perched on the top of Mt. Penn, overlooking miles of city and county, sits the famous Pagoda. Drive to the top on the winding road Chas. Duryea tested his pioneer hill climbing autos. Giftshop, restaurant, exhibits, scenic look-out. Admin. by the city of Reading,Parks Dept.Open10 a.m .-9 p.m. BERKS COUNTY VOL. XXVII, FOLK FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT, 1978 CONTENTS 2 HEX SIGNS: A LIVI NG TRADITION 1I!ollt 1I!estiual flHrector: by Richard H. Shaner Mark R. Eaby, Jr. 6 DECOYS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM 1I!olk 1I!estiualllfublic ilielations: by Tom Ahern Peg Zecher 8 KUTZTOWN'S PLAIN PEOPLE 1I!olk 1I!estiual ~tuMes flHrector : by Theodore W. Jentsch Prof. Thomas E . Gallager, Jr. 12 THE OLD COUNTRY KITCHEN-WHERE FOOD PREPARATION WAS AN ART f.\la.1I!olklife ~ociett1llfresibent: by Mary E. Sise Dr. Richard P . Richter 16 WOODEN TOYS, GAMES and PUZZLES 1Ebitor: THE DELIGHT OF ALL CHILDREN Dr. Don Yoder by Robert W. Murphy Assistant 1Ebitor &: Arcqiuist: 20 A SKETCH OF THE SEMINAR Dr. William T. Parsons STAGE PROGRAMS by John E. Stin smen 1EMtorial QLommittee: 23126 FESTIVAL FOCUS Dr. Mac E. Barrick Dr. Phil Jack Dr. Henry Glassie Dr. Hilda A. Kring Dr. John A. Hostetler Dr. Earl F. Robacker Dr. David J. Hufford Dr. Alta Schrock 27/30-FOLK FfSTIUAL PROGRAMS Art 1Ebitor: 31134 FESTIV AL FOCUS Richard F. Kurr 35 THE FURNITURE-MAKERS AT THE KUTZTOWN FESTIVAL llfq otograpq er: by Barry McFarland James R. Dissinger 40 THE MUZZLE-LOADING GUNSMITH ~ubs criptions: by Paul E. Forster Doris E. Stief 42 THOSE RARE THINGS CALLED Published five ti mes a year by the Pennsylvania Folkli fe Society, In c., " ANTIQUES!" Lancaster, Pennsylvania . byAnne E. Denney $1. 50 fo r si ngle copies, Autum n, Winter, Spring and Summer. $1.00 fo r Folk 44 MOUTH-WATERING BAKED GOODS, Festival Supplement. Yearly subscription FRESH FROM THE OVENS! $7.00. Folk Festival correspondence: by Kri sten R. Angstadt Coll ege Blvd. and Vine, Kutztown , Pennsylvania 19530. 48 THE ART OF THE POTTER Folk Festival public relations: by Earl F. and Ada F. Robacker 26 E. Kn owlton Rd ., 56 CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Media, Pennsylva nia 19063 Presid ential Correspondence: FRONT COVER - Kathy Mullen, a pretty Pa. Dutch Ursinus Coll ege, Maid, with Hex Signs. (See article on page 2.) Collegeville, Pennsylvania , 19426 . INSIDE FRONT COVER - Other Places to See in Edi torial correspondence: College Hall , the Pa. Dutch Country Box 36, University of Pennsylvania, BACK COVER - Map of the Folk Festival Grounds Philadelphia, Pennsylva ni a 19 104. Subscriptions, business correspondence: Box 1053, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Contents copyrighted. Entered as second class matter at Lancaster, Pa. The Festival and its Sponsorship The Kutztown Folk Festival is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Folklife Society, a nonprofit educational corporation affiliated with URSINUS COllEGE, College­ ville, Pennsylvania. The Society' s purposes are threefold: First, the demonstrating a n d displaying of the lo re and folkways of the Pennsylvania Dutch through the annual .Kutztown Folk Festival; second, the collecting, studying, archiving and publishing the lore of the Dutch Country and Pennsylvania through the publi­ cation of PENNSYLVANIA FOlKLIFE Magazine; and third, using the proceeds for scholarships and general educational purposes at URSINUS COllEGE. by RICHARD H.SHANER A Living Tradition John Claypoole, veteran Kutztown Festival hex-sign painter, works in bold colors. Conjure up an image of the Pennsylvania Dutch and there is bound to be a hex sign-painted barn in poly-chromatic color. Easily made with a compass, the first hex signs were incorporated with folk-art illumination on Pennsylvania Dutch dower chests and birth certificates from the last half of the Eighteenth Century. The Pennsylvania Dutch disposition of decorating or illuminating objects was a direct carryover from earlier European traditions. However, here in America, it flourished anew and took on different dimensions and wider forms. The creators of this art were a simple, agriculturally-oriented people. Yet, they de­ veloped America's finest folk-art, which is found in every major American museum. The Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign's popularity with the American public may be due, in part, to the no­ torious stories that hex signs keep away witches! Thus, from Maine to Georgia, on suburban garages and roadside ice cream stands, we find multi-colored masonite hex amulets, which are protecting humorous 2 Americans' worldly goods. In truth, the colorful rule of symmetry. This rule calls for the balancing beauty 0 f a geometri cally-designed hex sign enhances of decoration; everything painted to the left of center almost everything it adorns. Any occult power the on a barn had to be repeated to the right of center. sign may possess becomes secondary to its esthetic For instance, the artist outlined each of the doors purpose. Most historians agree that hex signs were which were left of center in white. After finishing almost always used in an esthetic sense. They spring that task, he discovered that this barn did not have from the same creative, Pennsylvania Dutch spirit doors which were to the right of center to counter which inspired the fanciful tulip and the outlandish the left doors' positions. Therefore, in order to "bal­ distlefink bird! ance" the barn, the artist would paint imaginary Hex ign-painted barns are not native to all parts doors on the right to match the position of the doors of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country; they seem to be on the left. concentrated in a tri-county area of Lehigh, Berks, and Montgomery. Lancaster County, which was one of the first territories settled by the Pennsylvania Po. Dutch barn with painted "fake" door. Dutch, does not have hex sign-painted barns. The reason for this may be that the early Lancaster County barn had a low forebay and a steep roof. The short­ ness of the forebay height did not allow much oppor­ tunity for folk-art inspiration. By the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, the Pennsylvania Dutch frontier had extended well into Lehigh and Berks Counties from Montgomery County. Here the emergence of the "large," Swiss-bank barn, with an enormous forebay which was twice the height of the Lancaster County barn, took place. With this large, dead-spaced forebay confronting him every day, the early Pennsylvania Dutchman decided that some­ one should bring life to its plain surface with colorful hex signs. By the end of the Nineteenth Century, this tri-county territory contained hundreds of hex sign­ painted barns, many of which are still standing today. Professional hex sign-painters answered the hugh demand for that folk-art. These artists, skilled in elementary principles of folk-art, followed the cardinal William Schuster, Festival hex-sign painter, paints traditional designs. Full view of above "fake" door barn. An unusual barn with many windows and large, bold hex-signs. ® II [II !III I I IliIT!II I [I I I I I fiiD ~ ~i~_~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 In addition to symmetry, the second noticeable aspect of a properly decorated barn is the placement of the hex sign.
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