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Speaker 3: If it about krsee talks nation, must be something German
Speaker 3: going on. Got our German Bubba music. Thank you to
Speaker 3: Joe Strecker for that. And welcome back to the fifty
Speaker 3: five KRSE Morning Show. Hair Don Heinrich Toltzman will come
Speaker 3: and my friend, it's good to have you back on
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 2: Tonka Goten Morgan, Guten Morgan. Looks like a beautiful day,
Speaker 2: beautiful weekend, and we have some great, good, beautiful news
Speaker 2: for you. This coming week starts the German festival season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know.
Speaker 2: You patronize, would love to see you as our various
Speaker 2: German events. And I think you even have a pair
Speaker 2: of later.
Speaker 1: I do, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get those out and be sure to bring your
Speaker 2: you're thirst and hunger along to our events.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that was I have to give a thanks going
Speaker 3: back many years, the Colping Society got me the later hosen,
Speaker 3: So really I'm pleased to own them only a few
Speaker 3: occasions during the year when I can actually wear them
Speaker 3: because as a fashion statement, just walking around an any random
Speaker 3: day with leader hosen On. I think it looks weird,
Speaker 3: but hey, they are. They're pretty cool. When you got
Speaker 3: all the German folks around similarly dressed, you're in good company,
Speaker 3: of course, hoisting beers and drink, eating the wonderful food
Speaker 3: and the sausages and oh my god, my mouth is water,
Speaker 3: and just thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Well later hosting last forever they do. And you know,
Speaker 2: in our area too, we figure that half the population
Speaker 2: has German ancestry, so the largest ethnic ancestry group in
Speaker 2: the area, second to us are the Irish and of
Speaker 2: course many other people.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: We celebrate our heritage and we have this coming week
Speaker 2: a big event. It's the one hundred and thirtieth German
Speaker 2: Day celebration, and we have one of the oldest such
Speaker 2: celebrations in the nation. And the German American Citizens League
Speaker 2: is the sponsoring organization. Was founded in eighteen ninety five
Speaker 2: and it's the umbrella organization of all the societies in
Speaker 2: the Tri State. People might not realize it, but we
Speaker 2: have more than forty of them. You mentioned the Colping,
Speaker 2: that's one of the member societies. There's the Donal Schwaubman,
Speaker 2: the Germania, the Hendelmeyer, Mustard Club. Yes, we do have
Speaker 2: a German mustard club.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about that one. Oh it's great.
Speaker 2: They meet at Vitelmann's group ub once a month and
Speaker 2: enjoy some good Bavarian mustard. We also have since Deutsch.
Speaker 2: So many people don't realize that there are so many Germans,
Speaker 2: and we have more in our area than in any
Speaker 2: other city, and that means more than the Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: more than a Milwaukee, and the German Embassy even said
Speaker 2: that we were the German heritage center in the US.
Speaker 2: So we are proud that we maintain our German heritage.
Speaker 2: And for the one hundred and thirtieth German Day, we
Speaker 2: have a three day. Three events had three different days.
Speaker 1: One day is not enough.
Speaker 3: You're celebrating the German Day singular because with events that
Speaker 3: take place every three days.
Speaker 1: I got a kick out of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess we should. Well, you can say German Days,
Speaker 2: but we call it we celebrate you. Like you said,
Speaker 2: it's not one day is not enough.
Speaker 1: No, we do well.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of food.
Speaker 1: I know real quick. Here.
Speaker 3: The one thing I always thought was really really cool
Speaker 3: in spite of the fact you have all these different
Speaker 3: I'll say factions of German clubs out there. You all
Speaker 3: get along and play together. Really you're supportive of each other.
Speaker 3: Like if Coping has their October Fest, all the German
Speaker 3: clubs show up and participate in the events. There's a parade,
Speaker 3: they all have their own banners and it's just a
Speaker 3: really cool thing that the German societies and clubs do well.
Speaker 2: It's all mutual support of each other and it reflects
Speaker 2: the German immigration and the different parts of Germany, from
Speaker 2: the South, from Bavaria to the north, all these different
Speaker 2: parts of now each has their own customs and traditions
Speaker 2: that we like to stress. Now we get going. On Wednesday,
Speaker 2: the twenty eighth, we have a keg tapping at the
Speaker 2: Hofbra House in Newport, so that'll be a lot of fun,
Speaker 2: good food and drink there. And then on Saturday, the
Speaker 2: thirty first of May at ten thirty we have our
Speaker 2: German Day kickoff at Finlay Market. They have a very
Speaker 2: nice beer garden there on Elm Street and we like
Speaker 2: to meet in Finlay Market because that's where the roots
Speaker 2: of many of our groups.
Speaker 1: Go back to.
Speaker 2: And we'll have the Headdona Shauben dancers will be there
Speaker 2: we will have a parade of all the different societies
Speaker 2: that you were mentioning. Yeah, and then we have our
Speaker 2: good German band, the solled the fair fair Eines Muzikompton
Speaker 2: consists of musicians from the different German societies and even
Speaker 2: promised this year they're going to play some of the
Speaker 2: hit songs from eighteen ninety five, which is going to
Speaker 2: be great. And then on Sunday, the first of June,
Speaker 2: from eleven am to eight pm, we have the German
Speaker 2: Day Celebration at the Hofboy House and we will have
Speaker 2: the Colping zanger Kore, the German choir from Colping. We'll
Speaker 2: have some Bavarian dancers there and of course a German band,
Speaker 2: and we have all kinds of raffle prices that will
Speaker 2: be available. And the grand prize is a dinner party
Speaker 2: for thirty at the Holfbriye House. And some people said, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I have thirty friends, but when
Speaker 2: they turned out to be a winner, they have more
Speaker 2: than thirty friends.
Speaker 3: That's a good point, don because that's exactly what I
Speaker 3: was thinking. I mean, it would take me a month
Speaker 3: to come up with thirty people to get to an
Speaker 3: event or and like, wait, I don't have that many friends.
Speaker 3: But it's free food, it's dinner. It's a hofbrow house.
Speaker 3: The food's going to be great. There's going to be
Speaker 3: beer flowing, and I know it excludes your alcoholic beverages
Speaker 3: as these things I typically do, I think by law.
Speaker 3: But you'll still be able to buy some beer when you're.
Speaker 2: There, exactly. And then I should say too, our celebration too.
Speaker 2: It supports as a fundraiser for our German heritage museum.
Speaker 2: We started at twenty five years ago and it's located
Speaker 2: in the West Fort Park on the west side of town,
Speaker 2: and we felt that there was nothing like it. There
Speaker 2: is actually nothing like it in our midwestern area. A
Speaker 2: German heritage museum. And it's in a beautiful park where
Speaker 2: we have playground for children. There's a pavilion there, and
Speaker 2: it's in a nineteenth century loghouse and we have many
Speaker 2: interesting artifacts there. We have immigrant trunks, we have wooden
Speaker 2: shoes that immigrants from northern Germany war. We have tools
Speaker 2: and cooking utensils, we have passports someone go back well
Speaker 2: to the early eighteen hundreds, and we have a lot
Speaker 2: of pictures. We even have some people might be interested
Speaker 2: in this. We have a painting of Kaiser Wilhelm with
Speaker 2: his signature oh wow, so it's quite where a rare item.
Speaker 2: We also have genealogical books and sources there and so
Speaker 2: it's a very unique thing. The German Heritage Museum has
Speaker 2: open Sundays from one to five or one to four,
Speaker 2: i should say, and it's just a great place to
Speaker 2: come out and learn more about the German heritage because
Speaker 2: we're Alford Mulish kite and festivities, but we also want
Speaker 2: to stress learning more about the cultural history and the
Speaker 2: German immigration and the different groups we have here, which
Speaker 2: we've been talking about because they all have their different
Speaker 2: customs and tradition coming from different parts of the country.
Speaker 2: And we'd like to see you there in your later
Speaker 2: hosen good make it maybe to the Hofbrals or to
Speaker 2: find the market. Would love to see you there and
Speaker 2: everybody to come there and learn more about the German
Speaker 2: heritage and have a good time. Also.
Speaker 3: Yeah, profound connection between the Germans and the greatest Sincinti area.
Speaker 3: As you point out now in regard to the German
Speaker 3: Heritage Museum, you mentioned a number of artifacts and historic
Speaker 3: things you have there, I'm kind of curious how you
Speaker 3: collected those over the years, and if they're members in
Speaker 3: the if there's members of the listening audience who might
Speaker 3: have some historic items that are German connected, if they
Speaker 3: want someplace, do you accept donations of things with historic
Speaker 3: connection to Germany.
Speaker 2: Well, we do connect items or collect items that relate
Speaker 2: to the German heritage of our area. In other words,
Speaker 2: we do not collections are just because they're from Germany
Speaker 2: or related to Germany. They have to connect to our
Speaker 2: area and to the German people who settled here, and
Speaker 2: so yes, we can be contacted about donations. We do
Speaker 2: have a Facebook site for the German Heritage Museum and
Speaker 2: people have donated many valuable things. I mentioned these immigrant
Speaker 2: trunks that we have from the nineteenth century and some
Speaker 2: from the early twentieth century, the wooden shoes, we even
Speaker 2: have a spinning wheel was brought here, and we had
Speaker 2: tools that were made by craftsmen, because in the old
Speaker 2: Country you studied a craft or trade by the apprentice
Speaker 2: ship system, and then you had to produce a tool
Speaker 2: that showed that you were had a master of that
Speaker 2: trade and becoming all these people who had these trades,
Speaker 2: they brought them here to this country, and they helped
Speaker 2: build buildings and build our community here because of these
Speaker 2: crafts and trades, so Andy don't have many. The passports
Speaker 2: are interesting too, because in the nineteenth century they didn't
Speaker 2: have a picture. They would have have a detailed description
Speaker 2: of what a person look like. They tell if you
Speaker 2: were thick or thin, if you had a pointed nose,
Speaker 2: with the color of your hair, with your ears like.
Speaker 2: The passports are really quite descriptive, or if you have
Speaker 2: you know, whatever you look like in general. But yes,
Speaker 2: we do like to collect some things, and some of
Speaker 2: them items They came from the old German societies that
Speaker 2: had holes in the over the Rhine district and we
Speaker 2: collected their items. We had some very large pictures of
Speaker 2: members of German societies going back to the early nineteen hundreds,
Speaker 2: and in some cases we have collected the names of
Speaker 2: the people in a picture. For example, the Bavarian Beneficial
Speaker 2: Society that was found in eighteen seventy five, we've got
Speaker 2: a picture, must have all about fifty sixty of the members,
Speaker 2: and we have the names of these people. And some
Speaker 2: people actually they've come to the museum they said, here's
Speaker 2: a picture of our grandfather or our grandmother and we've
Speaker 2: never seen this picture. Oh wow, it's really really something
Speaker 2: that when they find that information. So we have again
Speaker 2: all the German Day celebration. It's a fundraiser supports our museum,
Speaker 2: and we're very proud that we have. Just think of
Speaker 2: that one hundred and thirty years that our organization has
Speaker 2: been founded. And we had some hard times in the past,
Speaker 2: especially prohibition. Can you imagine having a German festival without beer?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Well, thankfully we woke up and I got a clue
Speaker 3: about the stupidity of prohibition. So celebrate with the Germans
Speaker 3: even if you're not German. That's the other thing I
Speaker 3: always like to point out. You are welcoming to all people,
Speaker 3: so you can be a German on German Heritage Day
Speaker 3: and checks and celebrate things German and the German Heritage Museum.
Speaker 3: You know, Don Toltzman, I always appreciate the work that
Speaker 3: you're doing on behalf of the German history and the
Speaker 3: German community generally and all these different societies. You always
Speaker 3: have a welcome spot here in the fifty five KRC
Speaker 3: Morning Show and for my listeners, all the details for
Speaker 3: these events that Harr Toltzman talked about are on my
Speaker 3: blog page at fifty five KRC dot com. Uh feeling
Speaker 3: donk Haro, Don Don Heinrich Toltzman, It's always a pleasure
Speaker 3: to have you on.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Brian. I keep up the great
Speaker 2: work with every show.
Speaker 3: Thanks brother, I truly appreciate that. It's eight nineteen right now,
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