Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College The Dutchman / The eP nnsylvania Dutchman Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Magazine Spring 1957 The eP nnsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 3 Earl F. Robacker Alfred L. Shoemaker Jim Butterfield Don Yoder Harry Stauffer See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/dutchmanmag 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 Robacker, Earl F.; Shoemaker, Alfred L.; Butterfield, Jim; Yoder, Don; Stauffer, Harry; Heller, Edna Eby; Zehner, Olive G.; Braun, Fritz; Krebs, Friedrich; and Dieffenbach, Victor C., "The eP nnsylvania Dutchman Vol. 8, No. 3" (1957). The Dutchman / The Pennsylvania Dutchman Magazine. 11. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/dutchmanmag/11 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 The Dutchman / The eP nnsylvania Dutchman Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Earl F. Robacker, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Jim Butterfield, Don Yoder, Harry Stauffer, Edna Eby Heller, Olive G. Zehner, Fritz Braun, Friedrich Krebs, and Victor C. Dieffenbach This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/dutchmanmag/11 UBLICATIONS of the ennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, Inc. The PENNSYLVANIA BARN Published by: Th e Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, Inc. Price $2.00 I", elud es 16 essays, 96 pages Edited by: ki~J DR. ALFRED L. '1 I ,: ,SHOEMAKER Artieles by: DR . ALFRED L. SHOEMAKER DR. DON YODER HENRY J. KAUFFMAN J. WILLIAM STAIR VICTOR C. DIEFFENBACH CONTENTS of the PENNSYLVANIA BARN The Pe nnsylvania Barn Thatche d Barn Through the Trave ler's Eye Barn Decorations Barn Types He x Signs The Log Barn Brick.End De corations The Stone Barn Note s on Early Brick Barns The Frame Barn Applique s Barn Raisings Barnscape s Barn Terminology The Barns of 1798 SPRI NG 1957 VOL. 8, NO.3 EDITOR: Managing: Dr. Alfred L. hoemaker Contents Associate: Dr. Don Yoder DEPARTMENT EDITORS: The Dutch Touch 111 Iron . ........ .. 2 Antiques: Dr. Earl F. Robacker EARL F. ROBA CKER Art: Frances Lichten Cra/ts: The Pennsylvania Dutch Village 7 X VIf] Century : Henry J. Kauffman ALFR ED L. HOE MAK ER Contemporary : Olive G. Zehner 3 Design:· LeRoy Gen ler Five June Days .. Folklore : Rev. Thomas R. Brendle On an Ami h Farm 12 Food: Edna Eby Heller JIM B TTERFIELD Genealogy : Frederick Weiser History : Dr. Arthur D. Graeff Traveling Pennsylvanians . ... .. )8 Literature : Walter E. Boyer DON YOD ER Music : Dr. J. William Frey The T rail of the Stone Ar ched Bridges in Berks County . 20 UB CRIPTION RATE : HARRY TA FFER 3.00 a year in the United tate and Canada. El ewhere fifty cents addi­ Di placed Dutchmen Crave Shoo-flies ... 32 ti onal for po tage. Single copies .75. EDNA EBY H ELL ER MSS A D PHOTOGRAPHS: Florence Stan- Taylor . 3,t The Editor will be glad to consider OLIVE G. ZEH ER MS and photographs sent with a view to publication. When unsuit­ Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneers ..... ... 39 able, and if accompanied by return FRITZ BRA UN AI D FRIEDRI CH KR EBS po tage, every care will be exercised (Translated by Do T YODER) toward their return, although no re- ponsibility for their afety i as­ sumed. Zinzendorf and Moravian Research . .. 43 DO N YODER. THE PEN YLVANIA DUTCH­ MA . pring, 1957, Vol. 8, o. 3, Sheep in Dutchland .......... ....... 45 publi hed quarterly by th e Penn yl­ VI T R C. DI EFFE TBA H vania Dutch Folklore Center, Inc., 307-311 West Main t. , Kutztown , Pa. Executive and editorial office Beth el, Pa. Content Copyri ghted. P ress of E nt.eT ed as second cia .. matter at the Post Office CRAFT SM EN, INC. at Kutztown, P ennsylvania, under the Act of Kutztown, Pa. March 3, 1879. The Dutch Touch • In IRON By EARL F. ROB CKER It is an accepted part of today's living that the quality of what one buys i pretty largely determined by what he i willing or able to pay. He may pend fiv e dollar for a pair of hoe -or ten or twenty-but he knows better than to rail at cheapne of merchandise if the purcha e price was in keeping. Equa ll y, if he ha paid well for something, he has a right to expect the quality to be comm en urate with the xpenditure. Thi ystem of quality level and price level wa less accepted in the day of our pioneering ancestor than it i now- not that hoddiness or quality is a creation of contemporar time-. In the da ys wh en timec10ck were unknown, wh en mo t consum ers were on the same eco· nomic level. and wh en most crafts were handcrafts­ then a product was likely to be good. In fact, it had to be good to the point of acceptance or it would have been laughed out of exi tence. Fierce pride in the quality of one' own handiwork is something all but unknown in a conveyor·belt. as embly.line society, but in a day when ever y man's work was kn own to alm ost ever y other man and almost inevitably became a topic of conversa· ti on throughout the community. a sli pshod performance would get exactl y th e attention it merited. Few are the craftsmen. though, who are eq ually gifted or equall y skilled. Some men will emerge from the body·general of worker as superior, whether by rea on of actual talent or I ecau e of painstaking care. but th e fact remain that th ey do emerge. This extra, added omething in craft manshi p i no· where more evident than in the hand·wrought ironwork executed by th e early Pennsylva nia Dutch. For obviou reasons. little iron could be brought to the ew World­ little beyond the cooking pot, in mo t cases-but ever y­ where iron was in prime demand and a oon as the variou indu tries which paved th e way to the mith at th e forge could possibl y be established they came into exi tence. Up and down the seaboard and th en we tward the iron indu try pread ... and yet today, among a mi cellaneo u co llecti on of ironwork survivino- from old times, one ca n ort out certain piece and ay with con­ victi on, "A P ennsylvania Dutchman made th e e." Why? imply because the extra p lus·mark how. It show in the suitability of the piece for th e work for which it was intended. il1 its freedom from hampering re trictions and in it ornamentati on-so apt that it seems inevitable. IIlu trations accompanying thi s article should in th em elve help to make the point clear. Let us take iron hinge for fir t con ideration. Four examples of strap hinge are hOIl'I1. The term "strap" is a general one 1. A beautifully executed hinge bear· us d in the an tiques fraternity to de ignate 10no-, narrow ing the familiar tulip motif· hinges cut from a trip of iron and intended for u e on 2 2. 'arrow hinges decom/;ed with flat heart and tulip. 3. Commonest form in decorated hinges. 4. A mong the rarest of decorated hinges are / hose in the bird pattern. broad, heavy pieces of wood con truction- doors, dower chest lids, and th e like. Any re emblance to a leather strap or to the ordinary long hinge ceas . however. be yo nd th e point of phy ical length , becau e of th e extra plu in design ; th e object lose nothin g of it utilitarian quality, but gain immea urably becau e of mounled in group on panel or di played ingly. it adeptly conceived proportion and fini hing touche. Collector who wi h to put piece on di play, eith r in Tulip ornamentation was a favorite one, but eldom actual con tru tion or a objets d'art, generally face the did th e tulip in iron achieve the perfection of the example probl m of hOI to clean th em up first. They are almo t hown in Illu tration No. 1. It eem obvious lh at lh e alwa y rusty. and om Lim es ru t , grea y, covered with smith chalked out the pattern before he tarted work. paint, and broken. renewing it a he went along when th e nece ary elem nl oaki ng in kero ene will u uall y remove rust, if done of fire and water obliterated it. over a period of time and wilh occa ional li ght appli a­ Hinge in th e bi rd pattern are th e ne plus ultra for ti on of leel , 001. Kerosene will also remove grea e in orne collector , not only for their beauty I ut becausp mo t ease . but if it doe not, denatured wood alcohol of their great rarity. It hould not be too urpri ing to I ill serv the purpo e.