Cloisters To
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) —A special exhibit of rare
manuscripts from the German reli
gious community of Ephrata
Cloister will open on April 21st at
The State Museum of Pennsyl
vania.
The exhibit, “Early American
Illuminated Manuscripts from the
Ephrata Cloister,” has been organ
ized by Smith College Museum of
Art. It reunites many of the origi
nal Ephrata Cloister manuscripts
for the first time since their crea
tion some 2SO years ago and fea
tures a collection of items selected
from museums and libraries
throughout the east coast —
including the Library of Congress
and the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.
“This is a once in a lifetime
opportunity to view the manu-
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scripts in one exhibit,” according
to Michael Showalter, museum
educator. “There are no plans to do
this again anywhere in the
country.”
Scholars of folk art refer to these
manuscript treasures by the Ger
man term Fractur, meaning frac
tured writing, eluding to the open
spaces in the lettering. Members of
the cloister produced manuscripts
in many forms: music books, wall
charts filled with religious sayings,
and book inscriptions.
In conjunction with the opening
of the exhibit, the Ephrata Cloister
chorus will perform a free concert
of music on Sunday, April 23, at 2
p.m. in the museum auditorium.
The chorus, under the direction
of Dr. J. Daryl Hollinger, will pre
sent a program including music
written by Cloister members and
interest are covered in a free leam
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Cooperative Extension for parents
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To request your free copy, of
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gomery County Cooperative
Extension office at (610)
489-4315.
1-800-843-8731
Morgan Way, P.O. Box 527, Morgantown, PA 19543
Manuscripts
other early American composers.
The Friends of the State Museum
are sponsoring a special bus trip
and tour of the Ephrata Cloister on
May IS. On Saturday, May 20, a
beginning calligraphy workshop
will be offered at the State
Museum. Registration and a fee
are required for the trip and work
shop. To register for the trip and
workshop, call (717) 787-6590.
“The Ephrata Cloister repre--
sents one of America’s earliest
communal societies,” said Show
alter. “The Lancaster County com
munity of religious celibates prac
ticed an austere lifestyle which
emphasized spiritual and mystical
goals rather than material
objectives.”
The Ephrata Cloister and the
State Museum operate under the
Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission. The Stale
Museum of Pennsylvania is
located at Third and North Streets.
Harrisburg. Museum hours are
Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m.
to S pjn.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
For more information call (717)
787-4978. Individuals with disa
bilities who need special atten
dance or accommodation should
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nsylvania TDD relay service at
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 1, 1995*89
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
We had enough warm and sun
ny days so that Allen could rototill
the garden. Now the sugar peas
are planted in a 100-foot double
row so that a fence can be put up
to support them. It is a job to drive
posts for a fence but then the six
foot high peas are easy to pick.
Our daughter in Atlanta tells us
that her spring flowers are fin
ished blooming. I’m lucky to have
forsythia blooming in the house as
I forced some blossoms by bring
ing them indoors a week ago.
In regard to our Florida trip. I’d
like to finish telling you about our
journey homeward. We left the
Orlando area and traveled to
Silver Springs. Here the artesian
springs are the world’s largest We
went in a glass-bottom boat and
could see 40 feet below the sur
face. Allen and I had been there
before on our wedding trip and at
that time we saw many more fish.
The same day we had a jeep
safari ride and saw many unusual
animals. This was followed by a
jungle voyage on a larger boat
Some of die giraffes in their zoo
were 18 feet tall. My husband
bought a sign in a gift shop for our
12th and youngest grcndchild—it
said “Bryan Blvd.”
Our next stop was Savannah
where we had a guided tour of the
:ity. One house that we visited
was the “Isaiah Davenport” home
and it was built in the early 1800 s
the same as our farm house in
Lancaster County and it was quite
similar.
All along the way we checked
license plates and at the end of the'
rip we had identified 46 different
anes. We were too well fed and
jecided that we better eat a lot of
grapefruit when we got home.
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