A Pennsylvania Dutch Boy: And The Truth About The Pennsylvania Dutch

This book paints a portrait of how the “Pennsylvania Dutch,” or correctly, the “Pennsylvania German” people are changing.  Originally the predominant ethnic group in Pennsylvania, with a population of hundreds of thousands, they are now losing their Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, their “Dutchified” English accents, and their German cultural traditions.  They are falsely perceived as being the “Plain people,” as symbolized by an Amishman of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  It relates how the influences of the “great depression” of the 1930’s and of World War Two swept through the group and turned their culture upside down.
Through a memoir that chronicles their struggles, triumphs and realizations, and suffused with the zeitgeist of the era, it celebrates, through the life of a real Pennsylvania Dutch Boy, a beautiful heritage, and is an invitation for readers to explore the essence of identity and culture.