Joshua Brown Joshua Brown

Tambour Yockel, Part 2

The church records, kept in immaculate German script, suddenly end in 1791. For more than half a century, the congregation vanished, only to appear once more in 1847

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Joshua Brown Joshua Brown

Tambour Yockel, Part 1

In the years after the Revolutionary War, fear gripped tightly around the small Salzbarrick (Salisbury) area nestled on the slope of Lehigh Mountain.

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Joshua Brown Joshua Brown

The Wall at God’s Acre

On a bitterly cold day in February 1784, General Peter Muhlenberg, enroute to Ohio, stayed at the Kucher homestead near present-day Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

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