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Landis Valley Museum, a complex of more than twenty-five buildings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, founded in the 1920s by brothers Henry K. and George D. Landis, preserves Pennsylvania Dutch rural life from the mid-eighteenth century to the early-twentieth century. The guidebook surveys the Pennsylvania Dutch culture, profiles the brothers who amassed more than 75,000 objects relating to Dutch heritage, and concludes with a tour of the buildings and the grounds.
About the Author
Elizabeth Johnson was formerly the museum educator at Landis Valley Museum. She currently lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and is museum educator at Fort Hunter Museum.
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Starting in the late 1600s, chaos in Germanic Europe propelled the first wave of immigrants to Pennsylvania, attracted to the idea of greater freedom and greater prosperity for their families in the New World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Pennsylvania Dutch, Landis Valley, Lancaster County, Brick Farmstead, New York, Drover Henry, Heirloom Seed Project, Reading Road, Isaac Landis House, Long Rifle, Nettie May, Stackpole Books, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Good Books New!
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Starting in the late 1600s, chaos in Germanic Europe propelled the first wave of immigrants to Pennsylvania, attracted to the idea of greater freedom and greater prosperity for their families in the New World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Pennsylvania Dutch, Landis Valley, Lancaster County, Brick Farmstead, New York, Drover Henry, Heirloom Seed Project, Reading Road, Isaac Landis House, Long Rifle, Nettie May, Stackpole Books, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Good Books New!
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- American Folklife by Don Yoder on page 42
- Modest Mennonite Home by Steve Friesen on page 42
- Sauerkraut Yankees: Pennsylvania Dutch Foods & Foodways (The Islands series) by William Woys Weaver on page 42
- Mennonite Arts (Schiffer Book for Collectors) by Clarke Hess on page 42
- Pennsylvania German Collection (Handbooks in American Art, No. 2) by Beatrice B. Garvan on page 42
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