Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Spring 1996 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 3 Susan L. F. Isaacs Donald Roan Debora Kodish Lois Fernandez Karen Buchholz 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 Isaacs, Susan L. F.; Roan, Donald; Kodish, Debora; Fernandez, Lois; Buchholz, Karen; Jacob, Susan Fellman; Schlegel, Ron; and Brandt, Mindy, "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 3" (1996). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 147. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/147 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 Susan L. F. Isaacs, Donald Roan, Debora Kodish, Lois Fernandez, Karen Buchholz, Susan Fellman Jacob, Ron Schlegel, and Mindy Brandt This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/147 Spring PENNSYLVANIA ~ 5L.~ Gf'QEKLIFE Contributors MINDY BRANDT, who received her undergraduate degree from Ur inu College in oll egeville, Penn ylvania, i a graduate tudent at Temple Univer ity. Her la t article for Pennsylvania Folklife wa "Touri m and the Old-Order Amish" which appeared in the Winter, 1993-94, i ue. KAR N BU HHOLZ i director of collection at the Afro-American Historical and ultural Mu eum in Philadelphia. She worked on issue related to public u es of pace while a taff member at the Philadelphia Folklore Project. She received her Ph.D. in hi tory from Temple University. LOI FERNANDEZ i a longtime activi t and organizer in Philadelphia. She is the founder of ODUNDE, a gras root cultural organization, and was the director until turning th e po ition over to her daughter thi past year. SUSAN L. F. ISAACS, who hold a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the Univer ity of Pennsy lvania, was a Forman Fellow with the Winterthur Museum and a po tdoctoral Renwick Fellow with the Smith onian Institution. She teache hu­ manitie , writing, communication , and cultural tudie at Beaver College, the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, and the Community College of Phila­ delphia and i an independent cultural diver ity con ultant. SUSAN FELLMAN JACOB, a graduate of Temple Univer ity with a B.A. in hi tory, i a lifelong resident of Bucks County, Penn ylvania; her family's roots th ere go back to the 1730 . An archival historian, her intere t in the iron industry developed from working with her hu band, a prime mover in the restoration of Joanna Furnace. She i currently researching and writing a book on the hi tory of Joanna, and has made numerous pre entation on the research and restoration work being done there. DEBORA KOOT H i the director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project, an independent public folklife organization that documents, support, and interprets the arts and experience of loca l communitie . She received her Ph.D. in folklore from the Univer ity of Texa . DONALD F. ROAN ("Der Abe"), who holds degree from Kutztown and Temple Univer itie , is a freelance folklori t pecializing in the folklife of the Pennsy lvania German , an intere t gained through knowing and working with the late Dr. Alfred Shoemaker who became an informal mentor. Now enjoying retirement after thirty year of teaching, he writes, lecture, and doe fieldwork on such topics as folk architecture, food , farming practice, folk medicine and the occult, a well as folk belief and custom. A member of the Goschenhoppen Historian board of directors and chairman of the Goschenhoppen FolkJife Museum, he and his wife Nancy coauthored Le t J Shall Be Forgotten, a book ummarizing the Montgomery County and Go chenhoppen Folk Region Quilt Documentation Project. RON SCHLEGEL, a graduate of Kutztown State University where he earned both B.S. and M.Ed. degree, teaches studio and computer-generated art at Ephrata Area Senior High School in Ephrata, Lanca ter County, Penn ylvania; he is al 0 district art department chair. A member of the Hay Creek Valley Hi torical Association since 1977, he ha worked in Joanna Furnace archaeology and now erves on the board of director, i chair of the communication committee, and editor of the Association newsletter. Spring 1996 EDITOR: Thomas E. Gallagher, Jr. MANAGING EDITOR: Nancy K. Gaugler EDITORIAL ADVISORS: Simon J. Bronner Hilda Adam Kring Earl C. Haag Monica Mutzbauer David J. Hufford Joh n W. Roberts Terry G. Jordan Evan Snyder Susan Kal~ik Kenneth Thigpen SPRING 1996, VOL. 45, NO. 3 Donald B. Kraybill Don Yoder SUBSCRIPTIONS: Nancy K. Gaugler CONTENTS PENNSYLVANIA FOLKLIFE, Spring 1996, Vol. 45, No.3, 98 Folklife at the Margins: Cultural Conservation for the published three times a year by Schuylkill Heritage Corridor Pennsylvania FolkJife Society, Inc., SUSAN L. F. ISAACS P.O. Box 92, Collegeville, Pa . 19426. $5.00 for single copies, 114 The Goschenhoppen Historians: Preserving and Autumn, Winter & Spring. Yearly Celebrating Pennsylvania German Folk Culture subscription $15.00. Back issues DONALD F. ROAN (v. 21-41), $5.00 each; other prices on request. 126 The African American Festival of ODUNDE: MSS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: Twenty Years on South Street The Editor will be glad to consider DEBORA KODISH, LOIS FERNANDEZ, and MSS and photographs sent with a KAREN BUCHHOLZ view to publication. When unsuit­ able, and if accompained by return 134 Joanna Furnace, Then and Now postage, care will be taken for their SUZANNE FELLMAN JACOB and return, although no responsibility for RON SCHLEGEL their safety i assumed. 141 Port Clinton: A Peek into the Past Editorial co rrespondence: Nancy K. Gaugler MINDY BRANDT P.O. BOX 92, Collegev ille, Pennsy lvania 19426 Subscription, busi ness co rrespo ndence: CONTRIBUTORS P.O. BOX 92, (Inside front cover) Collegeville, Pennsylva nia 19426 Folk Festi val correspo ndence: Festival Associates Layout and Special Photography 461 Vine La ne WILLIAM K. MUNRO Kutztown, PA 19530 Phone; 610/ 683-8707 COVER: Copy right 1996 Located on a tributary of th e Schuylkill, RittenhouseTown­ Entered as third class mailer at Collegevill e. PA. the site of the first paper mill in the American colonies­ ISSN 0031-4498 is just one of many historic places in the Schuylkill Heritage Corridor. As Susan L. F. Isaacs notes, "a heritage corridor is a region recognized for its historical value and cultural legacy. It is not a park in the conven­ tional sense ... According to the Pennsylvania Historica l and Museum Commission, a heritage park harnesse the past to the redevelopment of communities through oppor­ tunism, strategic planning, and interlinked actions through regional partnerships. Ultimately, the goal i to use good history to legitimize both heritage tourism and communi­ ties experiencing self doubt so that they may build a stronger future.'" ""'V[j:J STATE GAME LANDS NO. 132 To me D eUWARe til WfiCH CANAL NATIONAL HeRlTACe CoRR1DOR',j , ,', j " J '-I7 "'. MONTGOMERY Co PHILADELPHIA co Miles 0Cl ~... 2======== 35............ __ 10 ~ 99 FOLKLIFE AT THE MARGINS: Cultural Conservation for the Schuylkill Heritage Corridor by Susan L. F. Isaacs A heritage corridor is a region recognized for its heritage resources in the entire region." 5 The feasibility historical value and cultural legacy. It is not a park in report left the SRGA and its numerous partners still floun­ the conventional sense of a publicly owned recreational dering to understand folklife, cultural conservation, and space with clear boundaries. Heritage parks across the how they were relevant to industrial heritage. In addition, country are designed to address economic problems result­ the Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission (PHAC), ing from deindustrialization, and to some degree they are one of SHC's public partners, felt the emphasis on archi­ expected to ameliorate these problems through cultural tecture offered a highly limited perspective of heritage, tourism. Pennsylvania's Heritage Park plan is among the particularly regarding folklife. Therefore, SRGA con­ most comprehensive in the United States. According to tracted with me to write a report on folklife resources in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, a the five counties-Schuylkill, Berks, Montgomery, Chester, heritage park "harnesses the past to the redevelopment of and Philadelphia-included in the proposed park. In con­ communities through opportunism, strategic planning, and sultation with SRGA and folklorists Amy Skillman, of the interlinked actions through regional partnerships. Ulti­ Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission, and Diane mately, the goal is to use good history to legitimize both Sidener Young of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, heritage tourism and communities experiencing self doubt I developed a document that clarified the meaning folklife so that they may build a stronger future."! and cultural conservation. My report suggested how folklife Numerous state and community groups joined forces and cultural conservation could be applied to long-term to create heritage parks across the country. In Pennsyl­ park planning and programming. The discussion of each vania, the Bureau for Historic Preservation began to examine county's cultural resources in this essay is based on that industry-related historic forces during the late 1980s and report.6 1990s.2 The state's Heritage Parks Program was begun CULTURAL CONSERVATION by an interagency task force interested in community rehabilitation.