Now, that I have used the June and July monthly newsletter to promote my book it is time to go back and promote the German American Heritage. August it the month we harvest the wheat and other grains, a staple in our daily diet, in the form of bread etc.
Kansas, one of the Great Plain States, is one of the biggest wheat producing areas in the world and the Germans had something to do with this.
It was the Germans from Russia, the Mennonites, who carried the bushels of Turkey Wheat from the Ukraine and made the Great Plain States into the wheat basket of the world.
About two months ago, I gave a presentation to “The Germans from Russia” in the San Francisco Peninsula. I was very much impressed by their interest and dedication and commitment to keep their German Russian Heritage alive. I learned from them that many of their brethren had settled in Kansas. I thought that this might be an interesting subject to explore.
I goggled the state of Kansas and was surprised how much Information was available on the Subject.
The Mennonites in Kansas, who brought the wheat
The German Heritage in Kansas, An Introduction
The Migration of Russian-Germans in Kansas
German and German Russians in Kansas
Many Germans did not come directly from Germany
Varieties of German Dialect in Kansas
Russian Germans, lured to Kansas
The Germans of Lawrence, Kansas
Fencing in the Turnverein in Kansas
Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers, Kansas University
Gedichte vom Getreide
Ich bin ein Schnitter heisst der Tod