Spring/Summer 2020 Newsletter

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--"Pandemics in the German-American Press," by Antje Petty, COVID-19, Der Nordstern, St. Cloud, Minnesota, German American newspaper, advertisement, Peruna, flu, grip, polio, cholera, pandemic, Nord Stern, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Der tägliche Demokrat, Davenport, Iowa, Eastern European immigrants, Russian Jews, New York Times, The Evening World, New York, NY, Brooklyn Edition, Harper’s Weekly, Yiddish-language newspapers, Baltimore Der Deutsche Correspondent, “Spanish Flu Death Chart,” Detroiter Abendpost, New Ulm Post, Hermanner Volksblatt
--"German-American Art in Oshkosh: Gustav Behncke," by Alan Lareau, German American painter, art, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Green Bay, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Ida Heiss, American West, J. Frank Waldo, Moses Hooper House, Oviatt House University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, Manitowoc Herald News, Good-Bye: Fishing Boats off the Cornish Coast, Nile Behncke, Jürgen Behncke
--"A New Database of Emigrants from Thuringia," by Astrid Adler, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, Hesse-Nassau, Bavaria, Kingdom of Prussia, Thuringia, Eisenach, Weimar, Sachsen-Weimar, Sachsen-Meiningen, Sachsen (Saxony), www.tiefenort-emigrants.de, http://www.tiefenort-emigrants.de/contact
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--"Friends Annual Meeting and New Board of Directors," by Antje Petty
--Book Review: "Powwowing: Healing Rituals of the Pennsylvania Dutch," by Dennis Boyer, Patrick J. Donmoyer, Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Braucherei, Pennsylvania Germans,
--"A Pennsylvania Dutch Voice During the 1918–19 Flu Epidemic," by Mark Louden, influenza pandemic of 1918–19, German dialects, DeLong, Solomon, 1849–1925, Obediah Grouthomel, Allentown (Pennsylvania) Morning Call, Prohibition