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New Switzerland In Illinois As Described By Two Early Swiss Settlers Kaspar Kopfli And Johann Jacob Eggen In Spiegel Von Amerika And Aufzeichnungen Aus Highlands Grundungszeit
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Book Synopsis Journey to New Switzerland by : Joseph Suppiger
Download or read book Journey to New Switzerland written by Joseph Suppiger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New Switzerland, an eighty-square-mile area in southwestern [now northeastern] Illinois with the city of Highland as its center," was the largest Swiss community in the United States during the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Swiss of New Glarus by : Kim D. Tschudy
Download or read book Swiss of New Glarus written by Kim D. Tschudy and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Glarus is the only town in America founded by the Swiss Immigration Society. These early settlers, laborers in the textile industry back in Switzerland, became the famous Wisconsin dairy farmers of later generations. While embracing the American ways of their new home--adopting, for example, the midwestern vernacular and Greek Revival boomtown architecture so popular at the time--the Swiss of New Glarus never lost sight of their rich European heritage. In 1937, the town decided to present the Wilhelm Tell Pageant to the public. Performed every summer to this day, it is the longest-running play in a foreign language in the United States. The annual Wilhelm Tell Festival, along with historic Puempel's Tavern, social clubs such as the New Glarus Yodelers, and the 14-building complex called Swiss Historical Village, each seen in this book through vintage images, is testament to why New Glarus has been dubbed "America's Little Switzerland."
Book Synopsis Envisioning New Switzerland: A Founding Document for the Swiss Colonists at Vevay, Indiana by : Ellen Stepleton
Download or read book Envisioning New Switzerland: A Founding Document for the Swiss Colonists at Vevay, Indiana written by Ellen Stepleton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During one of the most tumultuous decades in Swiss history, a small group of Vaudois republicans chose to secure their children's familial, cultural and spiritual patrimony by relocating to the New World. In April 1800, at Le Chenit in the Vall?e de Joux, five families framed a compact to organize a communal settlement in the Northwest Territory. Recently discovered, their pact is presented here in its original French and in English translation, along with an accompanying letter; additionally, another letter and an English translation of the compact as prepared by Jean Jaques Dufour in 1801 is supplied. Dufour is considered a founding father of American viticulture, and the Swiss settlers at Vevay, Indiana the first to succeed as commercial winemakers in the territorial United States. Scholars interested in founding documents, early American communes, commercial enterprises, cultural assimilation, and Swiss history in the Napoleonic era may find these documents intriguing.
