Fall 2012 Newsletter

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-- "Grottos of the Midwest: Religion and Patriotism in Stone," by Peyton Smith, Grotto of Christ, the King, and Mary, His Mother, Dickeyville, Wisconsin, religious structures, cemeteries, churches, German Catholics, 19th century, 20th century, Paul Dobberstein, St. Francis Seminary, Father Mathias Wernerus, Rudolph Grotto Gardens and Wonder Cave, Grotto of the Redemption
-- "Pommerscher Verein Unveils Immigrant Memorial Marker," by Kevin Kurdylo, ceremony, Town of Berlin, Marathon County, Wisconsin, Pomeranian immigration, low German, Platt,
-- "Ein deutscher Osage-Häuptling (A German Osage Chief)," Translated by Kevin Kurdylo
-- "Teaching the U. S. Civil War in Germany," by Nicole Konopka, Bamberg University, “Germans and the American Civil War,” German American mass migration,
-- Book Review: "An Other American Dialect: Pennsylvania German in the American Midwest," by Joel Stark, "Pennsylvania German in the American Midwest," By Steven Hartman
Keiser, Old Order Amish, Old Order Mennonite, linguistics, regional varieties, sociolinguistic variation, bilingualism