The Pennsylvania Dutch Dialects Project by Rose Fisher

By Saloma Furlong | August 21, 2026 |

Our next video from the Plain Roots conference is by Rose Fisher presenting on her Pennsylvania Dutch Dialects Project. In addition, this video also has another presentation on Teaching People to Write Pennsylvania Dutch by Rose Fisher and Eythana Miller. With a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics and Language Science from Penn State University, Rose joined…

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How an Amish Boy Became a Physicist, Part 3

By Saloma Furlong | February 21, 2026 |

Leon Hostetler graduating from Florida State University Today we bring you the conclusion of Leon Hostetler’s story. I first knew of him when he was writing a blog more than ten years ago before he started college and he was clearly upset, even bitter, that his schooling had been interrupted after the eighth grade. I…

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