Singing lifts Richard Nuss' spirits. "We all go through times when we feel a little low," Nuss says. "When I'm low, I start humming a song." And for Nuss, a Berks County farmer, singing praises to God ...
Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...