Adult Programs
The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center offers a wide variety of Adult programs including group tours, symposia, lectures, and special events related to the history and culture of the Schwenkfelders, PA Germans, and the local area.
Brown Bag Lunch Lectures
Bring your lunch and join Dr. Allen Viehmeyer and guest lecturers the second Wednesday of each month for a closer look into the SLHC collections, local, and Schwenkfelder history. Lectures are repeated the following Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Upcoming Programs
The Exile Society and the Friends of the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center often host special guest lecturers, groups, and events at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center.
- Dowsing Traditions and Stories
- March 25, 2012, 2:30 p.m.
- Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center begins at 2:00 p.m.
- Free, Open to the Public
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"Did you know that dowsing can be used for water divining, home and garden, archeological searches, earth mysteries, health and wellbeing and much, much more?” - American Society of Dowsers website. Join us for a fascinating afternoon with three dowsers: Keith Schaffer of Exeter Township, John Grubb of Bally, and Leroy Bull, President, American Society of Dowsers who will tell us of their dowsing experiences. Candace Perry will moderate this panel discussion.
- Like Fish In the Sea: The Religious Heritage of the Pennsylvania Germans 1683-1800
- April 21, 2012, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- $40 per person, lunch and refreshments included
- Contact Michelle Pritt, michelle@schwenkfelder.com (215) 679-3103 to register
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The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, PA is offering a one day conference intended for genealogists, researchers, students and anyone generally interested in Pennsylvania German cultural heritage on the colonial history of the German Protestant religious groups that came to the colony of Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Our excellent roster of speakers includes:
Dr. Karl Krueger, of the Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia on Lutherans;
Lucas Kriner, on the German Reformed Church;
Dr. John Ruth, Mennonite historian, on the Anabaptist Groups;
Dr. Paul Peucker, of the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA on the Moravians;
Dr. Allen Viehmeyer, of the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center on Schwenkfelders;
Dr. David Kriebel, author of Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch on the mystical Pietistic groups (i.e. Ephrata and the Woman of the Wilderness). Dr. Kriebel will also serve as moderator, and provide transition between the speakers.
The conference will provide an introduction to this vital aspect of Pennsylvania German heritage for all individuals seeking a better understanding of the culture or their own roots. Any questions? Please contact Michelle Pritt, Administrative Assistant, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, michelle@schwenkfelder.com.
Dialect Conversation Group
- Pa German Dialect Conversation Group
- Upcoming meetings
- 2012: March 15; April 19; May 17; June 21
- 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Open to the Public
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Join members of the PA German community to listen and talk about various subjects in Deitsch. Themes vary month to month. Conversation group meetings are open to the public. The SLHC provides coffee and tea for all participants. Join the conversation! No R.S.V.P is required. If you're interested in leading a discussion in the dialect, contact us!
Workshops and Classes
- German for Reading Knowledge, Adult German Language Course
- Registration is on a month by month basis from September 2011 through May 2012
- $80.00 a month, Thursday evenings, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
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Join our Associate Director of Research, Dr. Allen Viehmeyer, for a month by month course to acquire a reading knowledge of German. Courses cost $80.00 per month, Thursday evenings from 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. in our Library. Interested participants should contact Rebecca Lawrence or Allen Viehmeyer, 215–679–3103 or rebecca@schwenkfelder.com to register and receive information on the required text.