It was Julie Kresge’s lucky day. Kresge, as she often does, was keeping an eye on the March online auction held by Richard L. Dotta Auction Company of Nazareth. It was no casual thing for her. Julie ...

During the 100 years between 1720 and 1820, well over 100,000 German-speaking immigrants entered Pennsylvania, most of them through the port of Philadelphia. In just the five years between 1749 and ...

Pennsylvania German fraktur has enchanted fraktur expert Lisa Minardi for decades. “Initially it was the artwork and the incredible colors and whimsy of these angels and tulips and mermaids,” Minardi ...

A rare 18 th-century Lancaster County fraktur, which a man found in a suitcase in a dump more than 30 years ago, was appraised at $25,000 to $35,000 on the episode of the “Antiques Roadshow” ...

A fraktur by Daniel Peterman sold recently at Wehrly's Auction in Codorus Township for $9,680, according to Scott Wehrly. Fraktur is a style of lettering and an elaborate illuminated folk art created ...

If you’re a week-in and week-out reader of “Roots & Branches,” you’ll remember the name Lisa Minardi. Minardi’s the human dynamo who has turned Historic Trappe and its Center for Pennsylvania German ...

While I knew next to nothing about fraktur art, I knew it seemed familiar. Between the extraordinary calligraphy and the eye-catching images, the artwork scattered around Lancaster County just has ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X The Philadelphia Museum of Art calls it “the most comprehensive exhibition to be devoted to fraktur in over 50 years ...

HARLEYSVILLE — The Mennonite Heritage Center will hold a Fraktur Valentine workshop on February 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 565 Yoder Road in Harleysville. At the three-hour workshop, instructor ...