VOLUME 12 NUMBER 3
-- "Sängerfest in New Glarus celebrates all things Swiss," by Joe Salmons: Photo images: Alder Buebe of Appenzell perform / Alphorn players march in the parade on Sunday, June 15 / Deborah Krauss Smith, the grand concert conductor, and Kurt Müller Klusman, a guest conductor, wave from their parade float (photos courtesy of Deborah Krauss Smith)
-- "Howling with the Wolves in Wisconsin" [Speaking of Language series], by Mark L. Louden: Following a lead in H. L. Mencken's American Language about letters to the editor in the Milwaukee Journal from 1947, the author searched microfilm of the newspaper at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. Shares excerpts from the letters, which discuss linguistic peculiarities of "Wisconsin English."
-- "Klauser Credited for Work Building Ties With Hessen" [Friends Profile] by Nicole Saylor: James Klauser, Secretary of Administration, Wisconsin, MKI Friends Board of Directors, Hessen Medal of Service (Verdienstorden des Landes Hessen).
-- "Books Available on German Jews, Mennonite Low Germans": Announcing the release of two Max Kade Institute publications: German-Jewish Identites in America, edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons, and the Mennonite Low German Dictionary, by Jack Thiessen.
-- German Scholars to Lecture at UW-Madison This Fall: Dr. Helmut Schmahl and Dr. Wolfgang Grams.
-- "Marriage, Love Advice For German Americans" [Collection Feature], by Kevin Kurdylo. Examines advice books from the collections of the Max Kade Institute Library & Archive: Familienglück, ein Büchlein für Jünglinge und Jungfrauen, die sich verheirathen wollen (Ohio Waisenfreund, 1905); Lichtstrahlen für die Gesundheit, oder,
dunkle Stellen beleuchtet (Naperville, Ill.: J. L. Nichols, 1899); and a German translation of A translation of John Ploughman’s Talk, or, Plain Advice for Plain People.
Fall 2003 Newsletter
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