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RE: The Deadpost Initiative - Week 9 - Share your most undervalued work + week 8 winners ($10 SBD prize pool)
https://steemit.com/culturevulture/@melinda010100/new-glarus-wisconsin-20171024t5614852z
Here is one of my photo essays that didn't get much attention.
Great stuff! My Mom was a Swiss citizen when i was born, so i was grew up surrounded by her Swiss & Dutch things everywhere!... thanks for sharing!
There is a strong Swiss community in New Flat is..lots of music and opportunities for wonderful food. Did your mom cook Swiss foods for you? Rosti? Raclette?
a little bit... she mostly would cook Dutch and Indonesian food as she spent her childhood in Java & Holland... finally going to Switzerland when she was 12 as the War was breaking out. So she learned the Swiss lifestyle but always had a thing for her earlier cuisine.
What an interesting life! Did her family stay in Switzerland?
well.. my Mom's parents had recently divorced, so in '42 her mother was going to leave Holland with she & her younger sister and take a ship to Paraguay to wait out the war with her Mom's brothers whom were already there.
Believe it or not, my Mom's estranged father was back in Java, Dutch East Indies (as it was called) having been interred in a local Japanese concentration camp since the invasion.
So the upshot of the tale is that mother's mom died suddenly at age 38 having just been to the doctor for a checkup in Utrecht. Out of the blue... so by the Spring of 1942 my 12-year-old mom and her sister made their way to some family friends in Switzerland without much incident and had a wonderful dozen years living and coming of age there in the mountains.
Never did find those Uncles in Paraguay (although I believe that there are descendants there that I might find).
My Opa had a good rest of his life living on Lake Konstanz until the 1980s. So a lot of Swiss culture but Dutch genetically.
Wow..what an amazing worldly culural heritage you have!
thanks! small family but lots of history to look into
I did.some genealogy research, but all my family has been here in the US for several generations, So it was pretty easy. Good luck with yours!
So swiss! Many colorful and great photos:)
This part of Wisconsin had a lot of Swiss immigrants. Norwegians, too!
Fancy!
Nice! A little piece of Switzerland in Wisconsin, I enjoyed the trip to the festival 😀
😃 nice to have you along! Are you still yodeling?