Roots of Legend
LAMAR BUMBAUGH knew where the ginseng grew—but he wasn’t telling. This portly herbalist, rare bookseller and pure Pennsylvania Dutchman was known locally as Mountain Bummy. His antiquarian store on the main street in Kutztown was a trove of Pennsylvania German culture.
The Pennsylvania Dutch aren’t Dutch—they’re Deutsch, the German name for Germans. Most originally emigrated from Swabia in southwest Germany, near Munich. So no wooden shoes or windmills, but plenty of southern German accent. If you visit the Pennsylvania Dutch country today, you can still see folks driving horses and
