Your PA Dutch Minute: The 2023 Kutztown Folk Festival Part 2!
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Join Chris and I as we wander around the 2023 Kutztown Folk Festival fairgrounds on day 2 of the annual celebration of all things PA Dutch!
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Great video keep them coming
There are three more similar to this that will drop over the next few weeks.
Awesome man on the street video, Doug!
As a Luxembourger, still impressed how close those two languages are 😍
Doug you are so good with people!
Vunderful goot!
ah I'd love to visit the folk festival at some point. Alas I live in Georgia which is a bit too far away. For me Pa Dutch is an identity thing. Don't really got much else. Family's moved to a different part of the US, usually half to a full continent width, every generation for the last 5 or so depending on the parent (that's how I'm in Georgia) so that makes one kinda feel... empty, in a way.
Learning Pa Dutch, learning about Pa Dutch culture and folk art, has given me something to cling to, fill that void a bit. And I quite like it. Always loved German, my mother learnt it (the Standard language) after regretting never learning Pa Dutch from her mom/granddad (I don't think my grandma was actually fluent but she could speak some), and I grew up reading her college text books about the language, so Pa Dutch as a dialect was and is fascinating to me.
Hilariously my dad's family are old Dutch-Americans, with my Pa Dutch on the mother's side, which I just find funny (definitely isn't confusing, nooo, lol)
Keep the tradition and culture alive. For some reason there is a real push to not honor or respect the local customs. So many outsiders have moved in who take it for granted an so many developers and greedy real estate companys have destroyed the land.
New Yorkers and Hipsters move in and want to change the local environment. It really sucks.
Greetings from the Kurpfalz. I hope I can visit this beautiful Festival one day. Actually I visited Kutztown already, because of their partner town Altrip, which I live nearby. Not knowing about this whole Pennsylvania Dutch Topic back then, I am very curious about it now.
The favorit meal of the former German Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl was Pfälzer Saumagen (stuffed pigs stomach)
My grandparents were PA Dutch and spoke PA Dutch. My 7th great grandfather came to Philadelphia in the 1760s on the Dragon ship and later migrated to NW PA where the rest of my German descendants were born and raised. Over the years, the German language developed into the PA Dutch language. My grandfather spoke PA Dutch a lot but none of us grandchildren learned to speak it. The only phrase I sort of remember is "Go milk the cow." How would you say that in PA Dutch? Hearing you speak PA Dutch in your videos brings back fond memories of listening to my grandparents speak the language.
That phrase would be: Geh un melk die Kuh!
@@PADutch101 Thanks for the translation. My grandfather used to say this (spelling probably isn't right to I'll use a phonetic version)...Ick moush shy geh melk. Does that have any meaning?
@@brichter4669 I must soon go milk.
You look rad in that straw hat looking good 💯
Thanks for showing the Folk Festival from my home town. Great to see the fairgrounds and exhibits. I have been gone from town so long I probably wouldn't run into too many folks I know, but still, I might know some old timers or their parents. I DO know the mayor Jim! Ei-yi, Kutztown High!
Ah, the person saying for them one of the biggest traits of being PA Dutch is not being able to throw anything away made me smile.
Our parents are the same (“I’m sure this will come in handy at some point….let’s put it in the shed!”) and I might have inherited this way of thinking.
Just sitting here in a village near the Pfalz, finding it fascinating that I do understand nearly everything you say in PA Dutch (I grew up surrounded by the local dialect here m). We would love to visit the folk festival one day. So if you have next year’s dates, please post them here at some point. Much appreciated.
That's probably why PA is one of the busiest states in the country for estate auctions. All that stuff that doesn't get thrown away becomes desirable, to someone, eventually.
If you ain’t Dutch ~ you ain’t much!
Keep Pa German culture alive also.
That bovashankle lady that said everbody knows everybodys business...Thats so true they make good neighboor but gossip and nosiness is a bit of a problem and can be annoying
Just food for thought in future episodes. I wish you would translate the PA Dutch that you spoke here, There was a phrase that you asked as an answer and got the response back in PA Dutch and both the answer and response sounded very familiar, but I don't have any idea of what either meant or even how to write what was said. My grandfather was the last fluent PA Dutch speaker in our family, but I heard it often when in the countryside as a kid, so some phrasings are familiar but even if I think I know what's being said, I'm uncertain .
The phrase was: Kannscht du Micke fange? (Can you catch flies?) - The response: Ya, wann sie hocke bleiwe. (Yes, when they sit still.)
@@PADutch101 that one you did translate, but there was another one later. unless the same phrase was in the video twice.
@@vm1776 You mean "Wie bischt (du)?". How are you
Douglas Madenford : 1683 is not entirely correct (!). A few PA Dutch families were actually here before William Penn, I know as I am a descendant from one of them. Heinrich Frey, from Altheim in Wurttemberg came here on the ship Markus in 1680 (!!) with his friend Joseph Plattenbach. They settled in this remote, rural crossroads of two Indian walking-paths and ran a blacksmith shop, inn, and woodworking business that grew up into what is today Germantown Pennsylvania north-west of Philly. It was so-named because they, being the first white people to live there, only spoke German and for the first few generations all the residents were PA Dutch families like Frey, Levering, Leinbach, Boker, etc. At one time, the marriage of Anna Catherine Levering & Heinrich Frey was considered the oldest surviving marriage contract in Pennsylvania (researchers have since found some earlier ones to knock it out of that distinction).
Does Mennonite culture fall under Dutch culture. In my opinion they are similar in customs and that culture should be celebrated too!
Yes, Mennonites are PA Dutch. We share many linguistic and cultural traits. Mennonite and Amish aspects are celebrated at the Folk Festival but interest is on the non-sectarian PA Dutch.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video!TYMUCH
Yes they are. Amish and Mennonites are called the PLAIN Dutch (living simply, speaking PA German at home and school, no electricity, horse and buggies, no phones, etc.), and we who have German ancestors from the same areas of Germany but are more worldly (computers, regular clothes, phones, cars, etc.) are called the FANCY Dutch. So you have plain and fancy. Amish kids usually go to Amish one room schools and end their education by 8th grade; some Mennonites are more worldly, have electricity, but wear less worldly clothes, the girls and women wear white netting caps, and often go to public schools. At Kutztown we had a Mennonite girl in my class in the 1960s. She wore braids and her white cap, and flowery, modest dresses. She was smart and was in the National Honor Society. She was shy, quiet, but friendly with those she knew. A nice girl.
@@virginiasoskin9082 Right on! Thanks for the reply back
@@PADutch101 Gotcha. Thanks for the reply back!