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Developers of the former home of Rolling Hills Country Club will have another shot Wednesday at approval to build suburban homes and businesses in its place.
If you live in Manheim Township or Millersville, you may find this difficult to believe: Up to 10% of Lancaster County residents speak Pennsylvania Dutch. Many also speak English, but at home they generally speak Deitsch.
This is a finding of Frank Kessler, a Pennsylvania Dutch dialect enthusiast who lives in Belgium. He has a particular interest in Lancaster County because the largest Amish settlement in the world is located here. He often visits the area.
Of the estimated 40,525 Amish residents of the Lancaster settlement in 2020, about 36,000 to 37,000 live in Lancaster County. The others live in neighboring counties. They all speak Dutch.
The letter to Gladys Jones arrived without fanfare - and probably without much hope of a reply.
It had been sent by a family she’d met just once on a Danube riverboat in Vienna five years earlier.
A little boy’s shoe had threatened to muddy her skirt as he’d knelt up to get a better view, but she’d laughed it off and accepted his father’s invitation for coffee and a slice of Sachertorte (a rich Austrian chocolate cake) by way of apology.
On Gladys’s return to England, she’d sent a note thanking him for his hospitality. Then, one imagines, this middle aged wife of a Chester dentist considered the encounter no more than a souvenir of her 1934 holiday.