Discovery at Hochfeld
It’s been said that the ruined foundations of the abandoned village of Hochfeld remain there still, somewhere in the woods behind the cemetery… This was […]
It’s been said that the ruined foundations of the abandoned village of Hochfeld remain there still, somewhere in the woods behind the cemetery… This was […]
This past June, I was taking part in the MHV’s annual Tractor Trek, which makes various stops for coffee throughout the countryside. The first stop […]
When I first read Peter Brown’s book The Brauns of Osterwick, I never expected to actually see the gravesite of my great-great-great-grandfather Jakob Braun. It […]
For some reason I have it in my head that author Armin Wiebe was familiar with Halbstadt in his boyhood. I cannot trace nor recall […]
Periodically throughout my life, I’d heard references to a place distant in both space and time: Edrans. Somewhere on those Scot-settled hills, flits the memory […]