Under Giant Trees: The Private Cemetery of Silberfeld
WEST RESERVE In early August, I received an intriguing email from Mary Loewen: “I would like to invite you to our farm cemetery.” I was […]
WEST RESERVE In early August, I received an intriguing email from Mary Loewen: “I would like to invite you to our farm cemetery.” I was […]
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 […]
My love for cairns is maybe a little strange. I don’t know anyone else that slams on the brakes whenever they see a cairn. (Well, […]
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 […]
Don’t you just love how I run around the West Reserve, not really knowing much about the history (not the way locals do, anyway!) and […]