It’s a language that was a cornerstone of life for European immigrants and is still spoken fluently in thriving Amish and Mennonite communities across North America and beyond. Longtime Lehigh Valley ...
After hundreds of years of disruption, displacement, and colonial violence in Indonesia, I’m learning Dutch. Rudimentary, garbled Dutch, but Dutch nonetheless. Three generations ago, my ...
In these days of online and AI learning, the Dutch Brainwash course is decidedly (and purposefully) old school. Here’s why ...
Many people falsely assume Pennsylvania Dutch was historically spoken only by Old Order Amish and Mennonites, said Bradley K. Smith, archivist and associate director of the Berks History Center.
Calvin College will host an expert on the Dutch and the African slave trade for a public lecture on Monday, April 16 at 7:30 pm. Dr. Willem Klooster, a native of the Netherlands, will speak in the ...
Facebook brought them in and YouTube helped get them started, as dozens of eastern Pennsylvania residents gathered in Lehigh County for the preservation of something that once belonged to their ...