Settling York County, c. 1730: York County was settled by Europeans around four hearths with predominance by certain nationalities: southeastern York County (Scots-Irish); Codorus/Conewago Valley (German); northern tier, English (Quakers); and Hanover area (German Catholics and Protestants and..…

His mother, the granddaughter of German immigrants, was an American Red Cross worker from Missouri who was serving in Europe at the time. ... Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the former ambassador remains optimistic about the new German-American..…