23
Jan
2015
German American Heritage Center Presents:
Iowa Op Platt with Kathi Hofmann onSunday, January 25, 2015 at 2pm
This Sunday at GAHC we are showing a film from German Television about Scott County and its impressive German Heritage. The film is in German but we will be providing handouts in English of what is being said! Follow along or just enjoy the views of Scott County as seen by Germans!
Iowa op Platt
is part of a series produced by the German NDR (Norddeutsche Rundfunk) TV station. Yared Dibaba and Julia Westlake traveled all around the USA as well as to Africa, Australia and South America talking to people with family connections to northern Germany and the Low German dialect. In 2006 they visited Iowa. This 45-minute film features farmers Glenn Sievers and Bill Stohrjohan. Jack Schinkel, Lee Moeller and other members of the American Schleswig Holstein Heritage Society join them in Walcott. Erna Cielecki shows them around the I-80 Truck stop. They also stop in Davenport at the German American Heritage Center. DeWitt resident Karl Maass meets Yared and Julia in Manning, Iowa, at the Hausbarn he helped rebuild.Mark your calendars for next weekend too! We are hosting Tami from Cotton Creek Mill in West Branch as she shares the history of her "signature" quilts and demonstrates new quilt products on Sunday, Jan. 31 at 2pm!
