Young Jacob Gerhard found a secluded spot halfway up a mountain to build a small log cabin.

Jerusalem Eastern Salisbury’s church records, kept in immaculate German script, suddenly end in 1791.

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

I remember well my mother and grandmother descending below the roadway to pick from the dense thicket of watercress.

This recipe comes from Gram’s family who lived down near Center Valley in Lehigh County.