by Steven L. Akins HEX SIGNS are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition (as opposed to the Amish plain tradition) in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Painted barn motifs, usually in the form of “stars in circles,” began to appear on the central…

by William Ventvogel I WAS LOOKING for antique buildings and infrastructure: canals, railroads, bridges, ruins of the age of horse and steam and before. There were plenty, but unfortunately I lacked enough time to pursue what I wanted. So I pushed on for the mountains, content to read the iron plaques…

by August C. Mahr (1945) ON A GREAT NUMBER of Pennsylvania Dutch barns, there are geometrical ornaments painted on the outside walls; ornaments which, as a rule, show some sort of star within a circular disk (Figs. 1, 2, 8, 10b). The Pennsylvania Dutch barn in question is of the so-called Swiss bank-barn…

American Dissident Voices broadcast of October 29, 2016 by Kevin Alfred Strom IT’S ALL so mysterious. Last week a “group of teenagers” were milling around a Philadelphia-area movie theatre and, for no reason at all, formed into groups of 20 or 30 and began attacking random strangers…

Liberal apparatchik was once “special assistant for civil rights” during the Kennedy administration, helped found the Peace Corps, and claims to have been “an unofficial adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.” Shades of the degenerate latter days of the Roman Empire —…