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Welcome to York Town Square, 9 years of daily posts about history/journalism, topics that can easily become plodding and self important. My goal is to keep this blog fun and accessible. And I try to say something in each post. I welcome your comments and respond to every one you write. Please contact me at jem@ydr.com.
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Category Archives: The Pennsylvania Dutch
Solomon Meyer founded Die York Gazette, but his newspapering went downhill from there
This May 20, 1796 edition, is the earliest extant version of Die York Gazette, an anti-Federalist publication that also reflected the dry humor of the Pennsylvania Dutch. It tells about brewer Hannes’ bout with an old hermit. Hannes produced a … Continue reading
Posted in All politics is local, Archives, all posts, Books & reading, Explanations/controversy, Genealogy/research, Local journalism & Web, The Pennsylvania Dutch
Tagged Clark Avenue warehouse, Die York Gazette, Gannett Co., Solomon Meyer, Walter Klinefelter, York County Heritage Trust
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First St. John’s Lutheran: Telling this York church’s 140-year-old story in architecture
First St. John’s Lutheran Church is observing its 140th anniversary this year. This is the first of a monthly series in this anniverary year by local architectural expert Terry Downs. Dutchie, as he’s known around social media, undertook a similar … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, all posts, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Genealogy/research, God & York County, Local landmarks, Longtime York families, The Pennsylvania Dutch
Tagged Dempwolf architects, First Moravian Church, First St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, J. Horace Rudy, John A. Dempwolf
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Mention Jacks in York, Pa., and you get memories
Mention Jacks and you get memories. Jane Black captured this scene of the popular downtown York,Pa., retailer Jacks in the late 1970s. Barry Black, a regular commenter on my Facebook page, posted this winsome scene and noted that his wife worked for Jacks. She honed her artist’s skills at York Academy in the 1970s. Judy Bono also commented on Facebook that the Jacks Store, pointing to two connections. Jacks brought her to York for a buying job and later her husband, Richard Bono, served as architect for the building’s restoration.
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Tagged Butch Reigart, Catharine Meyer, Codorus State Park, Eagle Cam, Jacks, National House, Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, Randy Edsall, Richard Bono, Ricki the bear
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Mount Rose’s I-83 Interchange: A ground hog’s look under and a bird’s-eye view over this cloverleaf
Linked in/Neat stuff: York’s dairies remembered/One fortunate groundhog You might have thought that Howard Tunnel was York County, Pa.’s, only railroad tunnel. Then York Daily Record photographer Paul Kuehnel shows another one (kind of) – the old Maryland and Pennsylvania’s … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, all posts, Art & artists, Cliff Satterthwaite, Explanations/controversy, For photo fans, Linked in/neat stuff, Local journalism & Web, Local landmarks, Mail bag, Pets & animals, The Pennsylvania Dutch, Unsung/obscure sites, Wheels of York
Tagged Green's Dairy, Howe's Dairy, Interstate 83, Kutztown Folk Festival, Mount Rose, Mount Rose Interchange, Shrewsbury Township, Sutcliffe Dairy Building
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This York County witch doctor schooled scientists about powwowing in early 1930s
York countian Jacob Zellers spoke to an American University class about ‘charms, cures and curses’ circa 1931. He made a distinction between powwowing and other ‘good influences’ and witchcraft and hexing, both ‘bad influences.’ A reporter sat in on the class, and this story appeared in The Philadelphia Record and other newspapers after the Hex Murder and its subsequent trials in 1928-29.
Posted in Archives, all posts, Books & reading, Explanations/controversy, Hex murder, Local journalism & Web, Longtime York families, People, Small-town life, The Pennsylvania Dutch
Tagged 1969 race riots, Continental Congress, Edwin R. Danner, Hex murder, Jacob R. Danner, race riot trials, The Philadelphia Record, West Manchester Township, York Plan
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York County, Pa. and its New Year’s recipes: Sauerkraut & pork, hog maw – and oysters
Post by York Daily Record/Sunday News. York countians love to eat. Any it’s not just Pennsylvania Dutch Food. Our love for seafood signals our proximity to the Cheasapeake Bay at the Atlantic Ocean. So this mammoth oyster was added in … Continue reading
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Tagged hog maw, oysters, Pennsylvania Dutch, sauerkraut and pork, West York borough, whoopie pies
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