Upcoming Events
For events in the Bucher Meetinghouse, use “450 Campus Road, Elizabethtown, PA” in your navigation app. Although not an actual physical address, it will place you close to the entrance of the Young Center parking lot. Then use the building’s main entrance—beside the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies sign—to access the meetinghouse.
February 8 through April 11, 2024 • Hess Gallery, Zug Memorial Hall
Monday—Friday: 9 am–8 pm • Saturday—Sunday: 1–5 pm
EXHIBIT
Before Baptism: Growing Up Amish
“Before Baptism" showcases the collaborative photography of Gail Nogle and Ellen Sabin and provides a remarkable window into the lives of Nebraska, or “white-topper,” Amish of Central Pennsylvania. Over the past nine years, Nogle and Sabin have documented persistence and change in this highly traditional community. The exhibit features the experiences of Amish children who have not yet joined the church through baptism.
Gail Nogle, of Dallas, Texas, is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and became one of the few women in the world awarded a fellowship from the American Society of Photographers. Ellen Sabin is a professional photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of Truman State University, she counts artists Jay Stock and Gail Nogle as mentors.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 • 7:00 pm • Bucher Meetinghouse
KREIDER LECTURE
Language Patterns among Lancaster County Anabaptists: Do the Amish and Groffdale Conference Mennonites use English and Pennsylvania Dutch Differently?
Rose Fisher explores the language habits of the Amish and Old Order (Groffdale Conference) Mennonites of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She considers how English and Pennsylvania Dutch are used in contrast to one another and the extent to which each is restricted to certain domains (e.g., in the home as opposed to at work). In particular, Fisher discusses how the norms of use for English and Pennsylvania Dutch differ between the Amish and Mennonites of Lancaster County and what impact that has on how the grammar of Pennsylvania Dutch is developing over time.
Rose Fisher is a Ph.D. student in German linguistics whose research focuses on Pennsylvania Dutch. During her time as the Young Center's Kreider Fellow, she will visit Amish and Groffdale Conference Mennonites to collect data for her dissertation project. As a former member of the Amish and as a linguist, Fisher is interested in promoting the Pennsylvania Dutch language by better understanding its grammar, how it interacts with English, and the ways that the rich culture of the Anabaptists shapes it over time.
Tuesday, September 19, 2024 • 7:00 pm • Bucher Meetinghouse
LECTURE
Discovering Fianna Bucher Meyer
Who was Fianna Bucher Meyer? She was an Elizabethtown College student (1907–1908) from a family of Brethren leaders, a young mother, and a victim of tuberculosis. She was also grandmother to Nancy L. Bieber (’67), who discovered her grandmother when she unearthed boxes of letters in the attic a century after Fianna’s death. Bieber will talk about this discovery and how her research uncovered more about Fianna’s life.
Nancy L. Bieber is a spiritual director, writer, and retired psychologist. She is the author of Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment The Sacred Art of Finding Your Way (SkyLight Paths, 2010) and Fianna’s Story: A True Story of Love, Grief, and Faith (Masthof Press, 2020). Copies of Fianna's Story will be available for sale and signing after the lecture.
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