At the turn of the twentieth century, American popular literary magazines and journals pulsed with local color fiction, seeking to satisfy a national hunger for American identity. Anxiety over increasing numbers of new stock immigrantsa??and the changing face of an industrializing Americaa??gave rise to greater popular interest in stories with a simple focus on localized folk culture and old stock immigrant tradition. In the footsteps of writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Sarah Orne Jewett, the Pennsylvania German writings of Elsie Singmaster emerged to great popularity and acclaim.Born and raised in the Pennsylvania German tradition, Elsie Singmaster wrote extensively over the first half of the twentieth century. Through her intimate knowledge of the community, Singmaster exposed the nation s expanding readership to Pennsylvania German beliefs, culture, and distinct dialect without denigrating the community or resorting to stereotypes. She believed that the Pennsylvania Germans...

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