Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Summer 1983 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 4 John F. Harnish Jr. Gladys Sweigard Richard Shaner John L. Lakatosh Karen LeMonnier 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 Harnish, John F. Jr.; Sweigard, Gladys; Shaner, Richard; Lakatosh, John L.; LeMonnier, Karen; Danenhower, Herman A.; Ehrig, Dave; Eaby, Thelia Jean; Petrucelli, James; Rahn, Larry L.; Wright, William Dean; Kunkel, Ronald; Kunkel, Cindy; Nettleton, Robert; Nettleton, Cheryl; and Stinsmen, Jane Ann, "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 32, No. 4" (1983). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 101. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/101 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 John F. Harnish Jr., Gladys Sweigard, Richard Shaner, John L. Lakatosh, Karen LeMonnier, Herman A. Danenhower, Dave Ehrig, Thelia Jean Eaby, James Petrucelli, Larry L. Rahn, William Dean Wright, Ronald Kunkel, Cindy Kunkel, Robert Nettleton, Cheryl Nettleton, and Jane Ann Stinsmen This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/101 34th Annual Pennsylvania Dutch RONALD AND C INDY KUNKEL live in rural Berks LARRY L. RAHN was born and raised in Berks County about 20 miles west of Kutztown. Both are County, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Kutz­ graduates of Kutztown State Coll ege. Ron is an engineer town Area High School in 1968. He served his mold­ with Bell Telephone Laboratory and has a business ing and coremaking apprenticeship at the Kutztown interest in carriage restoration besides practicing the Foundry, Kut ztown, Pennsylvania. He worked there farrier's craft. Cindy, a former art teacher, is now a for five years. He received his teaching credits from full-time carriage restorer, operating Cin-Ron Carriage Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsyl vania. He Shop. They and their fami ly have been with the now teaches the foundry course at the Berks Vocational­ Kut ztown Folk Festival fo r the past three years. Technical School, West Center. This course is one of only two foundry courses offered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has been on the Commons demonstrating his skill for the past five years. JOHN LAKATOSH was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He is now residing in New Columbia, Union County, Pennsylvania. John attended Cummins Diesel School and worked as a shop superviso r in the trucking in­ RI C HARD H . SHANER was born and raised in dustry. He studied the pipemaking craft as an apprentice Allentown, Pa. He was graduated from Allentown to a master European pipemaker. He has been making Hig h School and received a B.S. in social science from pipes for 16 years, learning the trade and mastering Kutztown State Coll ege. He has been associated with the the craft of designing and repairing pipes. He has Kutztown Folk Festival for over 22 years. He conducts HERMAN A. DANENHOWER is a graduate of Kutz­ been with the Kutztown Folk Festival for the past three a Seminar Stage Program and is in charge of the home­ town Area High School and the Thaddeus Stevens years. He is a juried member of the Pennsylvania made bread stand and bake oven at the Kutztown Folk Festival. He has lived in the Kutztown area for the Trade School in Lancaster, Pa. He has lived in the Guild of Craftsman and has won many awards for his last 16 years, and is a teacher at Oley High School, Kutztown area all his life. He has kept bees for 10 designs. This is now his profession. years. While auending the Stevens Trade School to Oley, Pa. learn the machine trade, a mathmatics teacher got him interested in bees, a ll owing him to help with his hives KAREN LeMONNIER was born in Bethlehem, Pa. but and teaching him many things about beekeeping. He was raised in South Florida. She was a Fine Arts Major JANE ANN STINSMEN is a native of the Kutztown studies beekeeping all the time and currently operates at Ringling School of Art in Sarasota Florida. There area. She was born and rai sed in Maxatawny Town­ about 75 hives in addition to his· job as a toolmaker in she married her husband Larry and moved to a farm in ship and was graduated from Kutztown Area High a machine shop in Northampton, Pa. He li ves at the Lehigh Valley where they live with their three children . School and also from Temple University, Philadelphia. R.D. #3, Kutztown with his wife and twO children. She organized and taught homestead craft workshops for Before the birth of her young son, Jason, she taught the Rodale Experimental Farm in Maxatawny. There, cosmetology in the Lehigh County Vocational Technical Schools. She and her husband have handled the THELIA JEAN EABY was born and raised in Lancaster whi le experimenting with homespun crafts she became Seminar Stage programs for many years, and for the County, Pennsylvania. She was graduated from Con­ fascinated with the unusual craft of wheat weaving. past four, Jane has conducted a food program on the estoga Valley High School. She received her Bachelor Main Stage at the Festi val. She is currently a resident of Science degree in animal production from Pennsyl­ of Allentown, Pa. vania State Coll ege, University Park, Pennsylvania. She plans to enter law school this fa ll . She has worked ROBERT AND C HERYL NETTLETON live in Glen in the Folk Festival Press Office for the past fi ve Aubrey, N.Y. , in the Southern Tier, with their son, years. Adam. They were graduated from the State University GLADYS SWEIGARD was born in Clearfie ld County, of New York in Oswego; Robert studied psychology but grew up o n a farm in Dauphin County, Pa. She and Cheryl studied German. Rob and Cheryl are cur­ was graduated from Halifax High School and attended DA VE EH RI G, grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvani a . rently self-supporting craftspersons exhibiting their Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa. She and her He was graduated from L.E. Dieruff High Schobl, woodworking throughout the Northeast at various art husband, Russell, operated a general store in Matamoras, Allentown, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of and craft exhibits. They have been active in the art Halifax Township, for 29 years. Gladys is now a Science and a Masters in Education from Ku tztown and crafts industry for the past several years and are substitute teacher in the Halifax Area Schools and State College. His classes at Muhlenberg Coll ege en­ state columnists for a natio nal art and craft publication Russell is a rural mail carrier. Russell has assisted able participants to study the art and history of this call ed Sunshine Artists, U. S.A . his wife at her apple head doll stand in the Festival's Pennsylva nia German legacy, while they build their own Arts and Craft Building I for the past four years. rifles in the Eighteenth Century tradition. In 1979, The Art 01 Building the Pennsylvania LongriJle was published and is now in its fo urth printing. He is the JAMES PETRUCELLI became interested in stai ned WILLIAM DEAN WRIGHT was born in Philadelphia Black Powder columnist for the Pennsylvania Sportsman glass eight years ago. It first started as a hobby, but and reared in Montgomery County. He studied at Magazine and is currently the executive director of the soon became his business. This is the third year he Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and received his Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association. He and has participated in the Kutztown Folk Festival, although B.F.A. degree in painting at Kutztown State Coll ege. his family now li ve in Berks County, Pennsylvania. he has been involved in craft shows for six years. He Dean lived in the Kutztown and Fleetwood area for He has been the Folk Festival Gunsmith for the past is a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Crafts­ 12 years and now lives at his family homestead in three years. men and has participated in juried craft shows in Penn­ sylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Mardela Springs, Md. He has actively researched His business consists both of wholesale and retail early American leather items for The National Colonial JOHN F. HARNISH , JR., was born and raised in trade. Mr. Petrucelli lives in the country near Hamp­ Farm and has participated at the Kutztown Folk Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from J. P . ton, N.J . Festival for 13 years. McCaskey High School, Lancaster, Pennsylvani a, and served fo ur years in the United States Air Force. Then, he received a degree in advertising design from the York Academy of Art . Through Creatus, he has been a A ll (he above authors are partiripanrs at lhe Kut ztown Folk Festival and are available 011 fraktur artist since 1973 . He and his wife, Stephanie, lhe grounds. li ve in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He has been one of the fraktur artists at the Kutztown Folk Festi val for the past four years.