Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Summer 1981 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 30, No. 4 Constantine Kermes Richard Shaner John Pearsall Cyrus Hyde Richard C. Gougler 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 Kermes, Constantine; Shaner, Richard; Pearsall, John; Hyde, Cyrus; Gougler, Richard C.; Robacker, Ada; Robacker, Earl F.; Stone, Mary O.; Adam, Stanley J.; Brumbach, Paul D.; Wable, Jane; and Foust, Barbara K., "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 30, No. 4" (1981). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 93. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/93 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 Constantine Kermes, Richard Shaner, John Pearsall, Cyrus Hyde, Richard C. Gougler, Ada Robacker, Earl F. Robacker, Mary O. Stone, Stanley J. Adam, Paul D. Brumbach, Jane Wable, and Barbara K. Foust This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/93 32nd Annual Pennsylvania Dutcrl --..:::: Summtrlij8f ~tnn~lJ(bania lJ(jffjfe STANLEY J. ADAM was born, rea red and is liv in g in JO H PEARSALL is from Franklin, New Hampshire. Ber ks County, Pennsylva nia. He is an alumnus of the He was graduated from Dartmouth Coll ege in 1967, Kut ztown State Coll ege. After teaching in one-room majoring in English literature. After trying his hand at schools fo r 21 years, and 2 1 years in the Fleetwood seve ral occupations, he gravitated toward crafts and Area Ri chmond Elementary School, he retired in 1976. opened a small goldsmithing and stained glass company He has been assisting at the Funeral lore ex hibit at in 1970. In addition to hi s own business, he worked the Kutztown Folk Festival for the past three years. fu ll time for the fi rm , James Russell Silversmiths and became, informall y, the chi ef designer for the company. In 1978, John left James Russell to devote PA UL D. BRUMBACH lived in Kut ztown from 19 17 fu ll time to hi s own work as a goldsmith and jeweler. to 1980. He received his elementary ed ucation in the He now wo rk s from his farm house-studio where he lives Model School, then a part of Keystone State Normal with his wife, Susa n, and his two you ng children. School, and in 1929 was graduated from the Allen­ This is John's th ird year with the Festival. town Preparatory Sc hool. He att ended Kutztown State Coll ege for o ne year, then entered the Coll ier School of Embalming Technique and was graduated in 1932. ADA F. and EA RL F. ROBACKER, well-known Paul worked with several fu neral ho mes and in 1940 authorities in the field of Pennsylva nia Dutch history, folk art , and antiques, are long-t ime co ntributors to received his undertaking lice nse, then opened hi s own funeral home in Kutztown at 169 W. Main SI. In Pennsylvania Folklife and other magazi nes. Ada's articles o n quilts and quilting have been particularly 1954, he built a funeral home o n College Hill , Kutz­ town . H e is now retired and li ves in Reading, Pa . notable. Earl 's next ve nture (for Associated University Presses) is to be a th orough-going bibliography of articles and books dealing with the fields mentioned BARBARA K. FOUST is a native of Massachusetts, above. Their latest book - the sixth Robacker title - but has been li ving in the Kut ztown area for 25 was SpallerlVare and Sponge: Hardy Perennials of years. She has expanded her spinning-dyeing-weaving Ceramics (A .S. Barnes, Cranbury, .J ., 1979). T hey experi ence into a yea r-round business. She teaches are two of the judges in the annual quilting competition spinning and weaving to se nior ci ti ze ns as we ll as at her at the Kutztown Folk Festi val. home. This year marks her 12th yea r at the Ku tztown Folk Festival. Over the years all of her four children RI CHARD H. SHANER was born and raised in AJlen­ have assisted her. Now daughter Vi rginia and young town, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Allen­ granddaught er, Laurel, have joined her at the Festival. town High School. He received a B.S. in social science from Kutztown State Coll ege . He has been RI CHARD G. GOUGLER, Kempto n, R.D., Pennsyl­ associated with the Kutztown Folk Festival for over va ni a is the author of the main stage presentation, twenty years. He has a Seminar Stage Program each The Shunning. This year marks the eleventh year that aft ernoon and is in charge of the homemade bread he has been associated with the Kut ztown Folk Festi val. stand and bakeoven at the Kutztown Folk Festival. He autho red two o ther plays, We Remain Unchanged He has li ved in the Ku tztown area for the last four- and We Like Our Country, But We Love Our God. teen years and is a teacher at Oley High School, Oley, He also directs and performs the role of the Bishop Pen nsylvania. in both The Shunning and the Amish Wedding. He is a mathematics teacher at Kutztown Area H igh School MAR Y STONE learned her craft of macrame from her for the past 31 years, and has written and directed grandmother and two old merchant seamen. She is numerous plays at the school. a fu ll time macrame designer, working on commiss ion , through craft shows and from her studio. She has wri tten five mac rame instruction books which are being CYRUS HYDE was born a nd raised in a house that distributed nationwide and in South Africa, Australia, was in hi s family for over two hundred yea rs. From England and France . Attending the Kutztown Folk this family was handed down his interest in herbs. Festiva l is like comin g home for Mary and her hus­ Always interested and curious, Cyrus stored this infor­ band, Bob, who own and li ve in Fairview Valley Farm mation about herbs. Later this became a hobby and in Madisonvi ll e, Tenn., because so many of the cus­ eventually developed into a business. Now as pro­ toms of the Pennsy lvani a Dutch are familiar to them . prietor of Well-Sweep Herb Farm, he has o ne of the Bob was born in Pen nsylvania and now raises and larges t coll ections of herbs in the country. These are butchers sheep on his Ten nessee farm. He helps out at displayed in a large formal educational herb garden with the Butcher Shop at the Festival while Mary tends her an adjoining knot garden. Cy rus, his wife Louise, macrame stand. They have been part of the Kutztown and thei r three children li ve on a four and a half Folk Festival for eight years .. acre organic farm in North Wes t New Jersey. JANE WABLE was born and raised in Somerset County, CONSTANTINE KERMES li ves and work s in Landis Pennsylvania. As a child, she attended a one-room Valley, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Paintings school. On the farm on which she spent her child­ and prints by Mr. Kermes, which ex press the simple hood, they always gathered the maple syrup. For charm and dignity of America's rural folk, have been ten years she served as secretary fo r the Somerset exhibited in ten one-man shows in New York, as well County Maple Producers and is still active in that as over 100 such shows throughout the United States. organization. Her husband was Maple King five times; His works can be found in numerous collections here her son, Keith, was king four times. Her daughter, and abroad. In addition, he is li sted in the presti ­ Kathy, was Pennsylvania Maple Queen in 1970, so the gious " Who's Who in American Art. " whole fami ly is involved in the maple busi ness. With An exhibitor at the Kutztown Folk Festival since Keith's help, she still operates the family farm, where 1961, Mr. Kermes has demonstrated block printing at they raise beef cattle and collect the maple syrup. the annual event si nce 1965. She is also the E.F.N.E.P. Nutrition Aide Super­ visor for the Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Extension Service in Somerset County. She and her All the above authors are participants at the family have been demonstrating and telling the story of Kutztown Folk Festival and are available on maple syrup and sugar for the past five years at the the grounds_ Kutztown Folk Festival. SUMMER 1981 FOLK FESTIVAL ISSUE, VOL. XXX, NO. 4 CONTENTS 111 olh 111 estiuaIIJireetor: Mark R. Eaby, Jr. 2 F ARM ANIMALS AT THE KUTZTOWN 1110lh 1I!estiual ,ublie fRdations: 146 FOLK FESTIVAL Peg Zecher by Constantin e Kermes ]loUt 1Ifestiual @ltubies iireetor: 6 OUTDOOR OVENS IN THE DUTCH COUNTRY Prof.