Writings of Ernest Waldo Bechtel Vol. 4: Weekly Dialect Columns Part 2: 1974-1977 Traditional Craft This book is ideal for

This book is ideal for all those with a passion for history or a curiosity about objects used in America in the mid-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Landisville Mennonite Meeting House

Herald Press/Menno Media

Edited by Steve Heinrichs

Writings of Ernest Waldo Bechtel Vol. 4: Weekly Dialect Columns Part 2: 1974-1977 Traditional Craft This book is ideal forCo editor: Jennifer L. Trout. Ernest Waldo Bechtel wrote a weekly Pennsylvania German dialect column from 1970 1988 in the "Ephrata Review" in Ephrata, Pa. In his columns, he writes about his barbering experiences and what he sees when he observes people. He also writes his columns about holidays, such as "Gedechtnisdaag" and "Grischtdaag." This volume presents the years 1974 1977 of Bechtel's "Dummheide" columns in the original Pennsylvania German