Bernhard Eduard Fernow(January 7, 1851 – February 6, 1923) Out Takes February 28, 2023A trained forester who led the U.S. Division of Forestry and started the first four-year forestry education program in the...
Franziska Marie Boas (January 8, 1902 – December 22, 1988) Out Takes January 27, 2023pher, percussionist, and a pioneer in the field of dance therapy, Franziska was the daughter of the famed German-American anthropologist...
Charles August Fey (February 2, 1862 – November 4, 1944) Out Takes January 27, 2023An innovator in the field of slot machines, Charles was born Augustinus Josephus Fey in Vöhringen, Bavaria, the youngest of...
Theodore Wirth(January 15, 1863 – January 29, 1949) Out Takes November 17, 2022Best known for being the Superintendent of the Minneapolis Park system from 1906-1935, Wirth spent his life in horticulture and...
Yesteryears Out Takes January 4, 2022Ida Saxton McKinley (June 8, 1847 – May 26, 1907)Wife of President William McKinley and thus First Lady from 1897-1901,...
Yesteryears Out Takes November 9, 2021Eric Carle (June 25, 1929 – May 23, 2021)Beloved children’s author and illustrator, Eric Carle’s life as a German-American spans...
Yesteryears Out Takes September 10, 2021Anne Bauchens(February 2, 1881/1882 – May 7, 1967)Anne Bauchens was what was known at the time as a film cutter,...
Out Takes July 12, 2021In addition to books, a number of journals come my way. In this column I focus on several that have...
Booknotes Out Takes January 4, 2021By Don Heinrich Tolzmann German Influences in Louisville, ed. by C. Robert Ullrich and Victoria A. Ullrich (History Press, 2019)...
Booknotes Out Takes November 5, 2020John George Nicolay: The Man in Lincoln’s Shadow, by Allen Carden and Thomas J. Ebert (University of Tennessee Press, 2019)...
