Pa Dutch Dialect Program: Busch Knibbel March 21, 2010

Long time readers of the local weekly paper Town and Country most likely recall the Pennsylvania Dutch column called DER BUSCH KNIBBEL. During the seventeen years this column was published, the author's identity remained somewhat of a mystery. Not until after his death in 1966 was it generally known that Rev. William Rupp—at one time a minister at Great Swamp Church, Spinnerstown—was the author who wrote under the pen name DER BUSCH KNIBBEL.
William Rupp was born on a farm in 1911. While he was growing up, he heard the tales older people told each other during their everyday conversations. He later recalled their stories and antics in his weekly columns. Some of his entertaining accounts will be presented during a program at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center. Get your funny bone tickled listening to more Busch Knibbel yarns on the first day of spring, March 21, 2010, at 2:30 p.m

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