The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets books, manuscripts and artifacts related to the Schwenkfelders, the people of southeastern Pennsylvania in general and the Perkiomen Valley in particular.
Information
- Location:
- Pennsburg, PA, 18073
- Phone:
- 215-679-3103
- Tues - Fri:
- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Sat:
- 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Sun:
- 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Events
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- The Place I Keep: Exhibition O...
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Saturday, November 28 at 2:00pm - Gingerbread Houses
Friday, December 4 at 3:00pm - Christmas Market
Saturday, December 5 at 9:30am - Christmastide Traditions with ...
Wednesday, December 9 at 12:00pm - Studio Art Classes for Homesch...
Tuesday, January 5 at 9:00am - 2010 Studio Art Classes for Ho...
Tuesday, January 5 at 11:15am - 10,000 Years of Native America...
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Wednesday, January 13 at 12:00pm - Car Mechanics in the Upper Per...
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Sunday, January 31 at 2:00pm - 2010 Studio Art Classes for Ho...
Tuesday, March 16 at 9:00am - 2010 Studio Art Classes for Ho...
Tuesday, March 16 at 11:15am
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Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center It's TAKE 5 GIVE 5: Generocity will give $5 in your name to the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (any non profit in the Greater Philadelphia Region) if you're one of the 4,000 individuals that complete their survey. We took 5, now you can! Generocity is a place where you can learn more about the great impact non... profits like us are leaving on the greater Philadelphia region. They'll give up to $2,000 to any one non profit. Choose the SLHC.
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center It's Wednesday! Hope to see you from 12-1pm to meet the artists and view the works of Karl and Mary Jo Gimber as part of our free brown bag lecture series.
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center Join us tomorrow, November11, at noon for a free lecture! From local tavern signs to historical events and folk art designs found within various museum collections, Karl and Mary Jo Gimber's hooked rugs address stories found within America's past. The Gimbers will discuss influences in their work, techniques, and tradi...tions within the art of rug hooking. Free! Open to the public!
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Bring your lunch and join Dr. Allen Viehmeyer and guest lecturers the second Wednesday of each month for a closer look into th SLHC collections, local, and Schwenkfelder history. Lectures are repeated the following Sunday at 2pm.
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center Join us November 29th, 2009 from 2 pm to 4 pm for the opening reception of "The Place I Keep: A Collection of Poems and Pictures" featuring the work of Julie Longacre. Longacre will also be signing copies of her newly published book of the same title. Free and open to the public!
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center Join us this Sunday afternoon, November 8th at 2pm, for a special program to honor local military veterans! Bring friends and family to listen and share stories! Emily Fox Moyer, a local educator, will moderate the program. Light refreshments will be served.
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center Esther Yeakel's Adam and Eve sampler inspires stitchers around the globe. In Ireland, Siobhan, author of the Notes from Blue Hen Hollow blog, recreated Esther Yeakel's sampler this past September. Visit her blog to see her beautiful work! To see the original sampler, stop in at the Heritage Center; it is on display as ...part of our "Adam and Eve in Fraktur and Folk Art" exhibit through November 10th!
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Hello my lovelies! I hope this finds all of you doing well and getting some time in for stitching! I am hoping for some numb keister time this weekend now that all three of my rugrats are settled back at school, books are purchased, uniforms all properly fit, and so on. ...
See MoreSchwenkfelder Library & Heritage center October 31st is Reformation Day. It was on this day in 1517 when Martin Luther posted his 95 thesis on the doors of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg. Luther's actions inspired thousands: including the Silesian reformer Caspar Schwenckfeld. To learn more about Schwenckfeld, his relationship to Martin Luther and what... developed into today's Schwenkfelder church, visit our galleries this Reformation Day weekend.
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center The November 2009 eNewsletter was released today- check your inbox for an email with an update on our education programming. Want to receive updates? Send an email to info@schwenkfelder.com re: subscribe me to the eNewsletter!
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center Did you know we have flexible hours for our homeschool students in German and Latin? You may now come at 10:30am or 1:30pm. Classes are 1.5 hours long, twice a week. For more information, contact Rebecca at the Heritage Center, (215) 679-3103. Or visit our website.
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The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center has an extensive collection of German language books and manuscripts as well as Pennsylvania German art and artifacts. We offer guided tours, family and homeschool workshops and school programs related to the German Language.
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Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles Annual Fall Meeting
October 25, 2009, 2:00 pm
Open to the Public, Light refreshments provided
The Exile Society will conduct its Annual Meeting at 2:00 pm in the Heritage Center Meeting Room on the first floor. Following the Annual Meeting, a program on genealogy wil...l be presented by Bud Gross at 2:30 pm entitled, "Emerging Internet Tools for Finding Our Ancestors and Cousins". The public is welcome to attend.
Featuring a presentation "Emerging Internet Tools for Finding Our Ancestors and Cousins" by Bud Gross
Time:2:00PM Sunday, October 25th
Location:Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center Join us this Sunday afternoon at 2:30 pm for a genealogy program by Bud Gross "Emerging Internet Tools for Finding Our Ancestors and Cousins". Free, Open to the Public. For more information, call (215) 679-3103.
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The Friends of the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center will present a "Back Porch Seminar" with experienced car mechanics on January 31, 2010 from 2pm to 4pm. Local "grease monkeys" will inform the public about their businesses of many years ago. Lawrence Diehl, George Kirkwood and others will talk "Garage talk". W...hat would we do without mechanics? Perhaps you also have a few stories to share. Join us for a fun afternoon of tales from the local garage! Refreshments will be served.
Snow date: February 7, 2010. 2pm-4pm.
Time:2:00PM Sunday, January 31st
Location:Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
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Join us for the exhibition opening of Julie Longacre's exhibit, "The Place I Keep: A Collections of Poems and Pictures by Julie Longacre", on Sunday November 28, 2009 from 2pm to 4pm. Refreshments will be served.
"The Place I Keep: A Collection of Poems and Pictures by Julie Longacre" is sponsored by Harleysville Natio...nal Bank, and runs through March 10, 2010. In addition, her new book, "The Place I Keep" will be available for signing.
Time:2:00PM Saturday, November 28th
Location:Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage center TONIGHT! Stop in at the Goshenhoppen Historians in Green Lane at 7:30pm and hear Curator Candace Perry discuss "Pennsylvania German Garden and Floral Imagery". It's an excellent primer to describing and interpreting PA German folk art! For more information, contact the Goshenhoppen Historians.
www.goschenhoppen.org
Goschenhoppen Historians, Inc., was founded in 1964 in order to preserve the folk culture of the area's earliest immigrant settlers, known as the Pennsylvania Germans.
