COLUMBIA - The Columbia United Church of Christ hosted its 27th-annual "Fastnacht" Tuesday night. The event offers a "German-style" Mardi Gras celebration every year featuring traditional German food: ...

Fastnacht, which refers to the Swabian-Alemannic carnival that takes place mostly in Baden-Württemberg, also has Germanic origins. Fastnacht combines the Old German word fasen, which means to be silly ...

In decades past, the last sleepy-headed youngster climbing out of bed on Fastnacht Day in many local Pennsylvania German families was teased that he or she would not get a fastnacht for breakfast. For ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Venice, Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans — and Oley and Cetronia? The first are fabulous cities. The last are villages deep in Pennsylvania Dutch country. The cities are having one last fling before the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. March 1 is Mardi Gras, National Pancake Day and in Pennsylvania, it's also Fastnacht Day or Fat Tuesday. The tradition of making ...

“They’re only fastnacht today,” Pennsylvania German historian Alan Keyser said during “Fastnachts, Doughnuts and Other Cakes,” a Fasnacht Day noontime talk Tuesday at the Mennonite Heritage Center in ...