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2023 Featured Speaker
Robert Douglas “Dutch” Moyer
“Dutch” Moyer is a twenty-five-year German teacher, “Best of Europe” Tour Travel Guide and a leading Pennsylvania German historian who has contributed to promoting German-American friendship and cultural understanding.
2023 Topic: “What is your Kulp Family Legacy?”
Join us as we explore our amazing Kulp Family Legacy with jaw dropping documentary videos and photos detailing the incredible true-life Anabaptist journey of our Kulp family ancestors to America and the personal sacrifices they made on our behalf to give each of us a chance at a better life.
In 1535 Mennonites and other Anabaptist Protestants were cruelly executed by Catholics under imperial law (not church law) and their corpses were hung in iron cages on the St Lamberti Catholic Parish church tower in Munster, Germany, to deter others from joining Anabaptist Protestant Reformation. These iron cages still hang at St Lamberti Catholic Parish Church in Munster, Germany today and serve as an important reminder of why our Kulp Family Anabaptist/Mennonite Ancestors gladly accepted William Penn’s offer of religious freedom and farmland in Pennsylvania to escape their religious persecution in Germany and Switzerland.
On October 6th, 1683, the first German settlers to America arrived in Philadelphia on the boat the Concord.
They were twelve Mennonite families from Krefeld, Germany. Today, we celebrate German-American Day on October 6th as a national holiday in honor of these first German immigrants arriving in America. Since they touched down and created Germantown in Pennsylvania, German immigrants and their descendants have had a massive impact on American culture and history. This is part of our Kulp Family Legacy.
Every man every hour of his life, whether consciously or unconsciously, is making history, and that history either is to his credit, or it is not. This year’s Kulp Family Reunion Topic: “What is your Kulp Family Legacy?” will reflect on our Kulp Family Ancestors and the valuable life lessons they instilled our immediate forebearers passed on to us, our children and of future generations.
