Books By McFarland - Author

Richard L.T. Orth grew up and spent the majority of his life in Berks County, in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country. He brings nearly twenty-five years of experience in museum collections, field research and writing, mostly about the Pennsylvania Dutch culture: their people, history, folk art, folklore, architecture, and folk religious practices from both Plain sects to backwoods Worldly Pennsylvania Dutch. He is the director of the American Folklife Institute and lives near Burlington, Vermont.