Ancestral towns
The hospitality was bounteous, if not terribly personalized. A short visit with the mayor and his wife, then they handed…
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The stout, kerchiefed woman took one look at the Americans appearing in her village and whisked herself away from the…
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If you’re stuck in a blizzard, there are worse places to be than a cozy house overlooking a snow-covered lake,…
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I love road trips. There’s nothing that says summer to me more than the open road ahead of me and…
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Castles, cathedrals, Oktoberfest, cruising the Rhine River—these are the things most people go to Germany to experience. But my itinerary was…
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My Schott ancestors left the town of Osthofen, Germany, about 1809, heading east toward a better life in Russia. I don’t…
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