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Author: Alfred L. Shoemaker
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2009-08-11
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0811742660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe return of a bestselling classic with new material. Full-color vintage images for the first time. A new selection of recipes from Pennsylvania's Christmas past.
Author: Calvin George Bachman
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Lewis Shoemaker
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780811703284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1959 and written by a pioneer in American folk-life studies, this classic work examines the folk origins of Christmas in Pennsylvania. Composed of interviews and newspaper reports, it records holiday traditions from the eighteenth century through to the early twentieth century. In this edition, Don Yoder has contributed a new foreword, providing insight into Alfred L. Shoemaker's influential career and the significance of this still vital work, and an afterword, offering a look at recent research on Christmas customs.
Author: Barbara Cameron
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1682997936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since her step-mom brought her a snow globe of the New York City skyline, Annie has wanted to visit the beautiful, big city. Since it's nearing the time of Annie's rumschpringe—the time when Amish youth experience Englisch life to make a decision whether to live in that world or become baptized into the Amish faith—the family decides a visit is a good idea. They watch the Macy's Christmas parade, admire the decorated store windows, skate at the Rockefeller Center rink and— Annie's favorite—get a glimpse of a writer's life while visiting the New York Times building. But others aren't as thrilled with Annie's lure to the Big Apple. Aaron has long been attracted to Annie and is sure he's in love. As he watches her engage in big city life, he grows concerned that she won't want to return to their quieter life. Will Annie follow Aaron back home? Or stay and pursue her dreams? Competing for her attention, Aaron sets out to show Annie that Christmas isn't about the glitz and glamour, but about family, love, and the birth of Jesus.
Author: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 562
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes minutes of the Society's meetings.
Author: Lancaster County (Pa.) Historical Society
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes minutes of the Society's meetings.
Author: Donald B. Kraybill
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2008-02-25
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 0811750620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrimer to understanding Amish life for visitors. Captivating color photography. Insight on recent media events.
Author: Ed Klimuska, Keith Baum, Jerry Irwin
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781610604338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur local experts tell the whole story of this remarkable area.
Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691017211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReexamining the story of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt shows that commercial appropriations of these occasions were actually as religious in form as they were secular. The new rituals of America's holiday bazaar offered a luxuriant merger of the holy and the profane - a heady blend of fashion and faith, merchandising and gift giving, profits and sentiments. In this richly illustrated book that captures both the blessings and ballyhoo of American holiday observances from the mid-eighteenth century through the twentieth, the author offers a reassessment of the "consumer rites" that various social critics have long decried for their spiritual emptiness and banal sentimentality.
Author: Nada Gray
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen in rural Pennsylvania played an important role in family celebrations of Christmas and Easter during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book focuses on that role by examining their crafts related to the tree and the egg. Guided by the editors of ladies magazines, they strove for fashionable holiday decorations created from readily available materials. Through the use of photographs and patterns of period and contemporary decorations, the reader will be able to recreate similar holiday decorations. There are approximately 250 items in full color and black and white with many turn of the century photographs of early trees.
