The Pennsylvania Dutch don’t have one Christmas day meal that is a staple, according to Weaver. Instead, each family may eat something drastically different from another. But all families have ...

DANVILLE, Pa. — We are celebrating Christmas Pennsylvania Dutch style! Shoofly Pie is delicious molasses flavored dessert that is prepared in many PA Dutch homes as a Christmas tradition. We visited ...

CHALFONT, Pa. — Home and Backyard is sharing Christmas traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch! One of the holiday traditions for some PA Dutch is a visit from the Belsnickel. He is the stern faced gift ...

Everyone knows the Christmas lore of Santa Claus. He’s the jolly fellow in the red suit who zips around the world on his flying reindeer-pulled sleigh, sending gifts and goodies down the chimneys of ...

The Belsnickel, a Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas figure, is coming to the Schuylkill County Historical Society. Keith Brintzenhoff, a Pennsylvania Dutch folklorist, will impersonate the venerable ...

The Pennsylvania Dutch or the Pennsylvania Germans are descendants of German speaking people who settled in Pennsylvania. They brought with them many customs, traditions and skills that many people ...

The Belsnickel — wearing furs, smeared in soot and waving a bundle of birch switches — visited children in the schoolhouse during Christmas on the Farm in Kutztown on Saturday, Dec. 7. Held on the ...

Abigail Smith grew up reading books written by her grandmother Mildred Jordan. “I read most of the children’s books, and all of the novels,” Smith said. Smith was far from the only one with a fondness ...