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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticBeam, C. Richard
Title, AnalyticErnest Waldo Bechtel (1923-88): The Leading Pennsylvania German Poet of His Generation
Journal TitleYearbook of German-American Studies
Date of PublicationSupplemental Issue, vol. 3, 2010
Location in Work3-14
AbstractErnie Bechtel, 'Der Buschgnibbel,' lived his entire life in the same house in Reinholds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. . . . [His] literary output consisted of approximately sixty-seven Pennsylvania German poems, twelve dialect plays and . . . eighteen years of weekly Pennsylvania German columns in the Ephrata Review. Six poems are presented here.
NotesThe Language and Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: A Festschrift for Earl C. Haag. Edited by William D. Keel and C. Richard Beam.
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsPennsylvania-German dialect/ Dialects/ Poetry/ Language, German (US) -- Dialects/ Humor & Satire/ Bechtel, Ernest Waldo, 1923-1988