I'm in Milwaukee tonight after a trip through St. Paul, Minnesota, where we made a delivery to the Science Museum of Minnesota. It's like a skyscraper built into a cliff. The main entrance is at the top, but you can descend outside stairs (or an internal elevator) down to the lowest level, where the outside exhibits look across to the Mississippi River. The receiving dock where we made today's delivery is guarded by Iggy here....
I was struck over the last few days how much German heritage I've come across on this trip. It's no surprise there is in actual city named Germantown near Milwaukee, home to Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, etc. I didn't expect the cable network in Topeka, though, to have a German channel with coverage, in English and German, of political events in Germany. According to this article, some 40% of Kansans claimed German heritage in the 1990 Census. And who knew Columbus, Ohio, had its own German Village, a pleasantly cobblestoned town on the southern end of the city. A book on the area says that one-third of Columbus was German immigrants by the 1850s. The German Village Society, a preservation organization, notes the "...enormous impact brewing had on the community." Although brewing died out due to business conditions and Temperance, the
modern village did spawn an institution still impacting communities around the Midwest - Max and Erma's.
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