When the Augustins and Spricks high-tailed it out of Deutschland in the mid-1
800s, they left some relatives behind. (We can't help but wonder if those good folks would have come along if they'd known what was to come in the land of Luther, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Goethe.) Aunt Alverna and others tracked down a few remote relatives after The War, including our favorite, young Britta Augustin. Here Britta visited with Mavis and Alverna. Britta used to visit a lot, but then she met Larry, an American fellow who played "Ach Du Lieber Augustin" on the accordion, and we haven't seen much of her since.
So here's a shout-out to Britta, who we hear is one of the scrapblog's international readers. Hallo, Britta! Come visit!
Grandma Sprick used to tell tales of anti-German sentiment in Minnesota during World Wars I and II. Ironic, given that y
oung American Spricks and Augustins were busy taking on shrapnel in Europe, but that's how things go when emotions run high during wartime. We thought of that recently when we saw
"Sweetland," a movie about a young German woman who emigrates to Minnesota. The scrapblog's cinema reviewer highly recommends "Sweetland," the only film she's seen that features an L-shaped farmhouse, visible at left in a still shot from the movie.
Meanwhile, a friend of cousin Chats recently traced the Miller side of the scrapblog editor's family all the way back to a 1700s kilt-wearing Scottish clan called the McFarlanes. (We digress momentarily here to picture, perhaps more vividly than is absolutely necessary for purely historical purposes, Mel Gibson in "Braveheart.") No doubt you other cousins have some interesting genealogy on your non-Sprick sides, too. And the adopted cousins have that, too, of course. In the end, if you go back far enough, we're all blood cousins.
When the Augustins and Spricks high-tailed it out of Deutschland in the mid-1
800s, they left some relatives behind. (We can't help but wonder if those good folks would have come along if they'd known what was to come in the land of Luther, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Goethe.) Aunt Alverna and others tracked down a few remote relatives after The War, including our favorite, young Britta Augustin. Here Britta visited with Mavis and Alverna. Britta used to visit a lot, but then she met Larry, an American fellow who played "Ach Du Lieber Augustin" on the accordion, and we haven't seen much of her since.
So here's a shout-out to Britta, who we hear is one of the scrapblog's international readers. Hallo, Britta! Come visit!
Grandma Sprick used to tell tales of anti-German sentiment in Minnesota during World Wars I and II. Ironic, given that y
oung American Spricks and Augustins were busy taking on shrapnel in Europe, but that's how things go when emotions run high during wartime. We thought of that recently when we saw "Sweetland," a movie about a young German woman who emigrates to Minnesota. The scrapblog's cinema reviewer highly recommends "Sweetland," the only film she's seen that features an L-shaped farmhouse, visible at left in a still shot from the movie.
Meanwhile, a friend of cousin Chats recently traced the Miller side of the scrapblog editor's family all the way back to a 1700s kilt-wearing Scottish clan called the McFarlanes. (We digress momentarily here to picture, perhaps more vividly than is absolutely necessary for purely historical purposes, Mel Gibson in "Braveheart.") No doubt you other cousins have some interesting genealogy on your non-Sprick sides, too. And the adopted cousins have that, too, of course. In the end, if you go back far enough, we're all blood cousins.
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