A Lehigh Valley woman got more than a winning bid on a rare piece of Pennsylvania German artwork. She uncovered an 18th-century piece of her family history.

one of which is the notion that fraktur art moved in a steady evolution from being completely hand produced (text, art and coloring) to full printed except for in-fill. Like most everything ...

Close-up showing detail on Kresge's fraktur Fraktur as a folk art had its roots in German Europe, or as it then was known, the Holy Roman Empire. Most of it was made up of hodge podges of small ...

But before I get to Bender’s comments, I need to follow up on the original column, which focused on Lisa Minardi’s “Fraktur A to Z” presentation at Historic Trappe in Montgomery County ...