SPRING 2019

Center schedules multidisciplinary conference on the “HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN AMISH SOCIETY” TO BE HELD JUNE 6–8, 2019

Registration is now open for “Health and of the presumptions of biomedicine. King is health care, hospice care, alternative medi- Well-Being in Amish Society.” Hosted by a teaching assistant professor in the depart- cine, and barriers to care. the Young Center, cosponsored by WellSpan ment of anthropology at the University of Three pre-conference tour options— Health, and open to the public, the confer- North Carolina at Chapel Hill. health care, business, and agriculture—are ence focuses on health, healing, health care, Melissa will discuss the cultural available to attendees for an additional fee. and individual and community welfare and components of successful public health out- Highlights of the health care tour include a well-being in Amish life. reach efforts in “Understanding the Why: visit to a health care center for Plain people, Joseph B. Martin, Edward R. and Anne Engaging Amish and Plain Communities in a stop at a center for women’s health that G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology, Emeri- Addressing Health Disparities.” Thomas is serves women from Plain communities as tus at Harvard Medical School, will deliver an assistant professor in the family medicine well as women in the broader Lancaster the keynote address, “Ancestral Antecedents department at the Ohio University Heri- County area, and conversation with a physi- of Illness: Opportunities for Assessment tage College of Osteopathic Medicine. She cian who uses some alternative health thera- and Amelioration.” Martin, whose research has worked on addressing health disparities pies. Participants on the business tour will was instrumental in identifying the genetic through community-engaged research and visit with Amish entrepreneurs, including underpinning of Huntington’s disease and outreach models for over 20 years, with a the owner of a metal fabrication shop and a other disorders, will describe today’s rapidly specific emphasis in rural and Appalachia snack food vendor. The agriculture tour will developing landscape of medical genetics, Ohio. include Amish farms with traditional or in- focusing on the power of genetics to identify In addition, scholars and researchers will novative ventures, including a dairy farm inherited disorders and the promise of new present their work during paper sessions; and an herb farm. Each tour’s itinerary in- treatments. seminar speakers from the Clinic for Special cludes lunch in an Amish home. The conference will include three ple- Children and the University of Maryland For more information and to register, nary sessions. In “The Amish as Healthcare Amish Research Clinic will discuss recent visit www.etown.edu/amish2019, call 717- Consumers,” Katherine Hempstead will dis- findings and ways patient care is affected by 361-1470, or send an e-mail to amish2019@ cuss the unique role of the Plain community genomic advances; and workshop presenters etown.edu. Register by May 1 to receive a as health care consumers: they shop for care, will address practical issues related to mental discount. negotiate directly with providers, and engage in medical tourism. Further, they receive ex- tremely transparent information about health care service prices, the very type of informa- tion that providers generally take great pains not to release. Hempstead is a senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Founda- tion, where she works on health care issues, mostly related to coverage, cost, and access. Martha King will present “Medicine and the Modern Amish,” a discussion of how Amish group identity, understandings of the body, and bodily practice contrast with many Joseph B. Martin Katherine Hempstead Martha King Melissa Thomas

1 From the Director Christopher Herbert to serve as this year’s Durnbaugh Lecturer This semester we begin our second The Young Center is pleased to announce Herbert worked with Young Center di- full year in our expanded building with that Christopher Dylan Herbert will deliver rector Jeff Bach in summer 2017 to research several new events. We have already the Durnbaugh lecture and seminar on Thurs- Ephrata music for his dissertation. His pre- welcomed our new administrative day and Friday, March 14 and 15. sentation on that music will be held on assistant, Rose Fisher. We will celebrate the renovated building and Herbert holds a B.A. in music from Yale March 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Leffler Chapel. The new Bowers Interpretive Gallery with University, an M.A. in Middle Eastern stud- Durnbaugh seminar will be held on Friday, a dedication event on March 14. ies from Harvard University, and a D.M.A. March 15, 10:00 a.m. to noon, in the Young in voice from the Juilliard School. He is an Center’s Bucher Meetinghouse. We have some other new experiences assistant professor at William Paterson Uni- Herbert will also be in the area on Febru- this semester. Our Amish conference versity, where he heads the voice program. ary 17 and 18, when New York Polyphony features a new hybrid pattern of presentations that includes a forum As a vocalist, Herbert performs through- presents Gregory Spears’ The Bitter Good, for more presentations by and for out the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He has based on the earliest hymn tunes in America health care practitioners who work soloed with the San Francisco Symphony, from the Ephrata community, at the Trust with the Amish. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Performing Arts Center in Lancaster. Visit International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Trust’s website for tickets and details. Another new enterprise is a course that I am team teaching with Susan the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and regularly The Durnbaugh lecture series was estab- Asbury, who works in our residence presents Winterize, an outdoor adaptation of lished in 1993 to commemorate the scholar- life office and is a candidate for a Winterreise with transistor radios. Herbert is ship of Don and Hedda Durnbaugh. It brings Ph.D. in American Studies. The course also the baritone in the critically acclaimed a noted scholar of Anabaptist or Pietist stud- is supported by the Mellon grant the ensemble New York Polyphony. ies to campus annually. college received. We will work with the artifacts of the Young Center’s special collections, assisted by college archivist Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh. Students will practice creating curatorial files and interpretive essays Center welcomes new staff member similar to what they might do if they worked in small museums or archives. In October, the Young Center welcomed Fisher’s background was a large part of Rose Fisher as its new administrative as- the job’s appeal for her, given the nature of In another new venture, Steve Nolt, sistant. Fisher graduated from Millersville the center’s work. “I have found the Young Edsel Burdge, and I are developing University in May 2018 with a bachelor’s Center to be an extremely warm and wel- a training unit for government employees working in conservation degree in German and psychology and a mi- coming atmosphere, Fisher said. “I enjoy who interact with farmers in Plain nor in history. She was born into an Amish what I do, and I enjoy interacting with peo- communities. The unit gives the family—her parents chose to leave when she ple who share many of my interests. Most conservation workers more insight into was eleven years old—and is a native Penn- of all, I enjoy learning more about my own values of people in Plain communities sylvania Dutch speaker. Anabaptist background.” related to family life and farming.

This year’s Durnbaugh Lectures feature a new format. The Elizabethtown College concert choir will assist Christopher Herbert by New publication performing some of Herbert’s new transcriptions of music from the Simply Amish, by senior fellow emeritus Don- historic Ephrata community. Herbert ald Kraybill, was published by Herald Press will combine spoken word with the last summer. A small volume intended to be choir’s performance to interpret new an introduction to the sect, the book explains research about music composed about Amish history, theol- 250 years ago. ogy, and culture in We are thankful for the support short sections using that has made our expanded facility plain language. Kray- and our new programing possible. bill also addresses Details about our events appear in growth and diversity this newsletter and on our website. I as well as popular hope that you can join us for our new misconceptions and adventures! common questions Jeff Bach the “English” have Director about the Amish. 2 Brethren Historical Committee meeting The Brethren Historical Committee held its annual meeting at the Young Center on No- vember 2, 3, and 4. The committee, which serves an advisory function to the direc- tor of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives (BHLA), chose to meet in Elizabeth- town in order to see the newly expanded Young Center and the Hess Archives. The weekend meeting included a visit to Breth- ren sites in Germantown and worship with the Germantown Church of the Brethren congregation. The committee members and associated visitors are, from left, Terry Bark- ley, Maddie McKeever (BHLA archival intern), Kelley Brenneman, Bill Kostlevy (archivist at BHLA), and Dawne Dewey. (Committee member Jeff Bach is not pictured.)

Pennsylvania Dutch receives Brown Book Award

The Dale W. Brown are sure to delight.” And Michael T. Putnam, Kade Institute for German-American Studies Book Award, named of State University, called the at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He for noted author book a seminal work, saying, “Louden suc- holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral de- and theologian Dale cessfully weaves a complex tapestry that pro- grees from Cornell University. Louden will Brown, is given an- vides an exhaustive historical account of this present a lecture about his work in fall 2019 nually to an outstand- language and its speakers and is easily acces- at the Young Center. ing book in Anabap- sible to multiple audiences.” Nominations for the 2020 book award tist and Pietist studies The book award judges selected Penn- will be accepted until December 10, 2019. published during the sylvania Dutch from a pool of 22 nominees. Visit www.etown.edu/youngctr for details. previous three years. They praised its originality and creativity, : organization and clarity, and significance and The Story of an American Language by Mark importance. One noted that “new understand- L. Louden is the 2017 recipient. ings emerge from the primary sources in prac- The book was published by Johns Hop- tically every chapter.” Another said, “Louden kins University Press in 2016, and has been makes an important contribution not only to commended by reviewers. Writing in the Anabaptist Studies, but to our understanding Journal of American History, Kate Burridge of the relationship between language, culture, of Monash University, Clayton, Australia, religion, and lived faith.” said, “This book abounds in marvelous his- Mark Louden is the Alfred L. Shoemaker, torical and cultural details, together with lan- J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of guage examples and linguistic curiosities that Germanic Linguistics and director of the Max

Work underway on interpretive gallery The Young Center’s new peace pole, David Heltzel and Dick Hoff from Phoenixx that explain the origins, characteristics, and a gift from the Peace Studies Institute Design are working steadily with Young Cen- spread of Anabaptist and Pietist groups, with and Religious Life Program at Manches- ter staff and college archivist Rachel Grove a special focus on the Amish. Rare books ter University (Ind.), was installed in Rohrbaugh to create text and select photos and clothing items related to Anabaptist and September 2018. The text reads “May and artifacts that will go into the new Bow- Pietist groups will be among the objects on peace prevail on earth” in English, Ger- ers Interpretive Gallery. Made possible by display, and the gallery will include an area man, Hausa, and Chinese. It was given in gratitude for the center’s help with a generous donation from Ken and Rosa- where visitors can listen to portions of music visitors from Manchester last January. lie Bowers, the gallery will feature exhibits from selected Anabaptist and Pietist groups.

3 Heritage Festival and reopening events Josh Brown Crafts, food, musical performances, quilt- and music in the Bucher Meetinghouse. A named Kreider ing, ribbon cutting, and presentation of gifts: ribbon-cutting ceremony took place at 1:30 Saturday afternoon, October 20, was a busy near the new front entrance, and special gifts Fellow for 2019 time at the Young Center! given to the center and the college by Chi- Joshua R. Brown, associate professor of The Brethren Heritage Festival kicked nese artists were unveiled at 3:00. German and linguistics at the University of off at noon with children’s crafts under the Throughout the afternoon, visitors had Wisconsin–Eau Claire, has been named the tents by the Lake Placida entrance, popcorn, the opportunity to tour the building, learn Young Center’s Kreider Fellow for 2019. homemade apple butter, bread, and bicycle- about the college’s Brethren heritage and the Brown received his Ph.D. in German churned ice cream under the tent by the peace center’s history, listen to more music, and from the Pennsylvania State University in pole, a quilting demonstration in the lobby, chat with Young Center staff. 2011 and has been teaching at UW–Eau Claire since that time. He recently coedited Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive En- cyclopedia with Simon Bronner, a volume in the Young Center’s series with Johns Hop- kins University Press. Brown’s current re- search interests are linguistic change among settlements, language shift among Amish- and Mennonites, and preserving heritage language letters and diaries for open access research. During his semester as the Kreider Fel- low, Brown will revisit his dissertation work among the Amish-Mennonite groups in Kishacoquillas “Big” Valley, Pennsylvania. He also plans to look at daughter and grand- daughter settlements from Big Valley to see patterns of cultural and linguistic change. “I’m excited to have access to the collec- tions at the Young Center as well as onsite experts in the field to bounce ideas off of. It’s also great to use the center as a ‘home base’ while I set out for fieldwork across Pennsyl- vania,” Brown says. He will present a talk about his work on March 28 in the Bucher Meetinghouse. The Kreider fellowship and lecture are named for Ken and Carroll Kreider, whose generous gift endowed them. Visit www. etown.edu/youngctr for information about the Young Center’s fellows programs.

Doctoral research

Simon H. Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in Ameri- Top left: Children create cornhusk figures, one of several craft activities at the festival. can Studies at Harvard University, will Top right: Days of Old, a country gospel music group, performs in the Bucher Meetinghouse. spend a month at the Young Center in late Bottom, from left: Jim Shreiner, chair of the college’s Be More Inspired campaign; John summer. Sun’s dissertation project is titled Holsinger and Janice Holsinger, cochairs of the Young Center campaign committee (Janice is “Thomas Jefferson’s Hau Kiou Choaan: also a trustee); Kristi Kneas, dean for academic affairs and faculty development; Jeff Bach, Rethinking Early America in Chinese Per- director of the Young Center; Erin Kelley, High Construction project manager who oversaw spective.” While at the center, Sun plans to the expansion project; Carl Strikwerda, president of Elizabethtown College; Bonnie Martin, look at whether Anabaptists and Pietists in director of church relations; Barry Shaw, supporter and donor; Robert Dolan, president of the college’s board of trustees; Steve Nolt, senior scholar at the Young Center; Bob Wallett, eighteenth-century Pennsylvania consumed vice president for administration and finance; Rick Barton, architect from Marshall Craft Chinese commodities (tea and porcelains) or Associates, the firm that designed the expansion. read about China.

4 UPCOMING EVENTS

LECTURE DURNBAUGH SEMINAR “I Just Want a Red Convertible”: Voices in the Pennsylvania Wilderness: An Surprising Stories from 30 Years of Examination of the Music Manuscripts, Music Research and Publishing Amish Life Theory, Composition, and (Female) Composers of DONALD KRAYBILL the Eighteenth-Century Ephrata Cloister Thursday, February 7, 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 15, 10:00 a.m.–noon Bucher Meetinghouse Bucher Meetinghouse

Donald Kraybill will share untold stories, back- Founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel, the Ephrata Cloister was a stage dramas, and humorous events from his 30 years of fieldwork celibate, ascetic, German-speaking, Sabbatarian in the among the Amish. He will also describe working with publishers wilderness of Pennsylvania. Its residents produced a large corpus and the media. of hymns and motets, and also published the third music treatise Kraybill is senior fellow emeritus at the Young Center. He is the written in what is today the of America. Christopher founding editor of Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Herbert’s presentation will focus on the music theory and compo- Studies and the author or coauthor of numerous books on Anabap- sition practices of the community, examining specific manuscripts tist groups. held in various collections throughout the Northeast.

DEDICATION CEREMONY KREIDER LECTURE Thursday, March 14, 4:00 p.m. Amish Identities in Changing Bucher Meetinghouse Context JOSHUA R. BROWN The dedication ceremony for the expanded Young Center will Thursday, March 28, 7:30 p.m. feature a presentation by Jonathan Stayer, supervisor of reference Bucher Meetinghouse services at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Elizabethtown College president Carl Strikwerda and Young Center director Jeff Bach Kreider Fellow Josh Brown will discuss how will also give remarks. An open house will precede the dedication, various aspects of Amish identities are changed beginning at 3:00 p.m. as groups move to daughter and granddaughter settlements. Much is known about diversity among the Amish, but the links of those diverse changes within related groups are not studied much. RECEPTION Brown is an associate professor of German and linguistics at the Thursday, March 14, 5:00–6:30 p.m. University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. 2nd floor of Leffler Chapel

A reception featuring light fare will follow the dedication SNOWDEN LECTURE ceremony. Mental Health Treatment in the Plain Communities CHARLES JANTZI DURNBAUGH LECTURE Forgotten Sounds: Researching, Thursday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. Transcribing, Performing, and Bucher Meetinghouse Reimagining the Music of the Eighteenth-Century Ephrata Cloister Charles Jantzi will explore the current think- ing about mental health issues and treatment CHRISTOPHER HERBERT approaches within the Plain communities. His Thursday, March 14, 7:30 p.m. exploration will include both outside professional and Plain com- Musser Auditorium, Leffler Chapel munity peer-to-peer treatment approaches. Jantzi, who was the Young Center’s 2018 Snowden Fellow, is a During the past two years, Christopher Herbert has worked with professor of psychology at Messiah College. This talk was resched- Ephrata music manuscripts. In collaboration with the Elizabethtown uled from last November due to inclement weather. College concert choir, he will present this music, heard for one of the first times since the American colonial period. Herbert holds a doctorate from the Juilliard School. He is an as- sistant professor at William Paterson University and the baritone in the critically acclaimed ensemble New York Polyphony.

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Special gifts from China SPRING 2019

Several pieces of artwork from Pingding, the group for the college as a gift of friendship China, were unveiled at the reopening cel- with wishes for peace. And Mr. Sun, another ebration for the expanded Young Center in Pingding artist, presented the group with a DIRECTOR October. The pieces were given to the study painted scroll depicting peonies (not pictured). Jeff Bach, Ph.D. tour group of Elizabethtown College students SENIOR SCHOLAR and Church of the Brethren members led by Steve Nolt, Ph.D. Jeff Bach and David Kenley in May 2018. SENIOR FELLOW EMERITUS Zhang Xiuyun used the traditional Chi- Donald Kraybill, Ph.D. nese art form of paper cutting to create the RESEARCH STAFF Liao Chou Church of the Brethren (right), Edsel Burdge Jr. the only building left in China that was built Cynthia Nolt by the Brethren. It was presented to the tour ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT group by Hongqing Liu. Artist Guo Xiufeng Rose Fisher presented “Lotus Pond in Summer” (below) to Young Center News is published twice each year for those interested in the work and events of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. For e-mail notification and a link to each new issue of Young Center News, send an e-mail message to [email protected]. Please direct comments and suggestions to: Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Elizabethtown College One Alpha Drive Elizabethtown, PA 17022-2298 Phone: 717-361-1470 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.etown.edu/youngctr 6