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Winter Newsletter 2016.Pub Winter 2015/2016 Heritage Headlines Volume 18, Issue 4 INSIDE WALTER EMERSON BAUM: THE SCHWENKFELDER CONNECTION Sellersville native Walter Baum led a storied life. A “celebrity in the art world,” he gained renown as a brilliant painter of the Bucks County landscape school. He Page 2 and 3: became the founding director of the Allentown Art Don Yoder Museum, and helped create the Baum School of Art. A “GR” Sale beloved teacher and historian, he was prolific in both Ongoing Exhibits Pennsylvania German and English. Larry Grim knew him Page 4 and 5: as “a loving grandparent with a perverse sense of humor.” Educational California resident Suzanne Spector, as a paint-spattered Programs seven year old in Allentown, revered him as her first art Page 6 and 7: teacher and mentor. Penn Dry Goods Market But the story of Walter Baum’s Schwenkfelder roots? Page 8: Volunteer Spotlight It all came together at the Heritage Center one recent afternoon in a celebration of the SLHC Visitors life and work of Schwenkfelder descendent and American Impressionist painter Walter Baum. Page 9: Archive and Library “His ancestors were very important to him,” said Additions Larry Grim. “He knew his mother’s Schwenkfelder Heritage Tour 2017 ancestors; he knew his father’s Weiss ancestors.” Living his entire life in Sellersville – from 1884 to his death in Page 10: Brown Bag Lunches 1956 – “he was 100% here.” In honor of his six Friends Program Schwenkfelder ancestors, Walter Baum donated important works of art to the Heritage Center. Page 11: Winter Programs and Exhibits Today owning and presenting more than 25 Walter Baum paintings, the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center is proud be a significant repository of his work, Page 12: joining major institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Ursinus College. Christmas Market Says Baum scholar Kathleen O’Dea: “This museum is a terrific example of his work, and so much more. Here you are preserving all things for future generations." Your Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center is a place of discovery. Here you can return to your roots … research your history … celebrate our amazing collection, or a family birthday, or our five hundred years of history. It is here for you and for every member of the 105 Seminary Street community to cherish and treasure. And yes, Walter Baum’s paintings are on view every day. Pennsburg, PA 18073-1898 Phone: 215.679.3103 Fax: 215.679.8175 Please support this precious legacy with your generous gift today. (If you have already given, thank you! Please share the enclosed envelope with a friend.) [email protected] www.schwenkfelder.com 1 2 Heritage Headlines www.schwenkfelder.com Volume 18, Issue 4 Passing of Don Yoder Dr. Don Yoder, 93, of Devon, Pennsylvania, passed away at his home on Tuesday, August 11, 2015. He was born on August 27, 1921, in Altoona, PA. Dr. Yoder was Emeritus Professor of Folklife Studies, Religious Studies, and American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught for forty years (1956-1996) and directed sixty Ph.D. dissertations. Responsible for introducing of the term “Folklife” to its present academic use in the United States, Dr. Yoder helped found the Center for American Folklife at the Library of Congress. In 1947 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in religious studies, and in his early career taught at Franklin and Marshall College, and later at Muhlenberg College. In 1949 Dr. Yoder co-founded the Pennsylvania Folklife Center with Dr. Alfred L. Shoemaker and J. William Frey. Together they established the Kutztown Folk Festival in 1950, the first ethnic festival of its kind. Dr. Yoder published seventeen books and countless articles on Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture. He was widely known in Europe, and his work was influential to the German composer Paul Hindemith and the compositions of H. L. Mencken. Considered the dean of German-American genealogy and a self-described “incurable Pennsylvanian,” Dr. Yoder devoted his life to the study and cultural preservation of the folkways of his native people. He inspired new generations in reviving and maintaining the spirit of the Pennsylvania Dutch. He was a good friend of the Heritage Center, and we celebrate his life while mourning his passing. GENEALOGICAL RECORD SALE! The Heritage Center gift shop is offering the book, The Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families, by Samuel K. Brecht, published in 1923, at the remarkably low price of $150.00 – half off the normal $300.00 price! We have both single volume and double volume sets available, all in reasonably good condition. The books are in limited supply and available on a first-come-first-served basis. The sale will run from December 1, 2015, through January 31, 2016, or until the current inventory is sold. If you are a Schwenkfelder descendant and have been considering the purchase of this exceptional resource of your family genealogy, now is the time for action. The $150.00 offer is for walk-in customers at the Heritage Shop, shipping is available for an additional $10.95. Pennsylvania sales tax of 6% ($9.00) must be added to all sales. Cash, check, and MC, Visa, and Discover are all accepted for payment. 3 www.schwenkfelder.com Volume 18, Issue 4 Heritage Headlines Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Warm and Bright: Artifacts for Warmth and Healing, Cosmology, and Tradition in the Light from the Heritage Center Collection Through March 31 Dutch Country Fraktur Gallery with guest curator Patrick Donmoyer As the chill and early darkness of the Pennsylvania Art Gallery, through January 31 autumn start to take hold, our thoughts turn to bundling up at home and outdoors. Today we might adjust the The lore of Pennsylvania German folk healing, thermostat or flip a light switch. Yesterday’s options commonly known as powwow in English or Braucherei were a bit more challenging. The Heritage Center has a in the Pennsylvania German dialect, is a topic of great wonderful collection of objects that were used to chase fascination to many individuals – and with that comes a the chill and light the darkness in the 19th century. From great deal of both fact and fiction. Patrick Donmoyer of printed buggy robes and wool quilts to an array of lamps the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at and lanterns for the parlor and the barn, this exhibit Kutztown, a leading expert on the subject with his trans- explores the options available to rural Pennsylvania lation and annotation of A Friend in Need, an early families for keeping warm and bright in their homes Pennsylvania German powwow book, and numerous arti- (and vehicles) in the cold winter months. cles and lectures, will be serving as guest curator. The exhibit presents his personal collection of manuscripts, books, and other materials relating to folk healing in both Europe and Pennsylvania. This very significant collection is supplemented with materials from the Heritage Center and other institutions’ collections. It is one of the first times an exhibit delves into this important – and mysterious – subject matter. The Art of Walter E. Baum – Pennsylvania Painter and Schwenkfelder Descendant Through March 1 Late 19th century Buggy or Sleigh Robe from the Heritage Center Collection Meeting Room Visit the Heritage Center over the winter months and enjoy this special opportunity to view the Heritage Wild and Mild – Christmas Putz 2015 Center’s collection of Walter Emerson Baum paintings. Through March 15 Baum was a wonderful friend to the Schwenkfelder Local History Gallery Library and enabled library officials to acquire an An important component of the Heritage Center’s excellent collection of his work during his lifetime. putz is always the huge collection of animals we have to Thanks to generous donors, we’ve been able to add to draw upon for the display – so this year we’re going to the collection over the intervening years. We are delighted feature them! The theme is “Wild and Mild” to show- to present this retrospective of his work to our guests. case this amazing collection of wild Vintage Christmas Electrical Décor and More and domestic minia- From the Collection of Matthew Roan ture animals from pre-World War II Through February 28 Germany, Austria, Wall Cases and England. Bring This winter our wall cases on the First Floor are the children for a fun filled with vintage holiday cheer, courtesy of Matthew “I Spy” challenge Roan. Stop in for a nostalgic trip down memory lane with that we’ll have avail- this terrific collection of vintage electrics and much more! able to play. 4 Heritage Headlines www.schwenkfelder.com Volume 18, Issue 4 CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS AMERICAN GIRL® TEA AND HISTORY We welcome children either on their own or accompa- At each of our teas we’ll learn about a featured character from American nied by an adult. The cost is $5 per child. ® Girl , what life was like for children in her Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas time, and talk about a famous woman of Tuesday, December 8, 1:30 – 3:00 pm, and the era. We’ll also do a craft and share Saturday, December 12, 1:00 – 2:30 pm snacks of the time period. We welcome boys and girls Everyone’s heard about Santa, but do you know to this is fun, free way for all kids to learn our shared Belsnickel? Better watch out! Come have some fun past. Please note that we will alternate, month to month, and tasty PA Dutch snacks while we learn about him between Thursday and Sunday afternoons for our teas. and other Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas traditions, and We hope this makes it easier for more families’ sched- then we will make our own decoration to take home.
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