An American Small Town - New Glarus History Segment
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Beyond the perceptions and stereotypes of small town life, An American Small Town immerses you in an honest portrait of daily life in American small towns and brings each town's unique history to life.
Produced by Social Frequency Documentary Productions
This is so interesting. I grew up in New Glarus, and it truly is an amazing little village.
+LM Johnson Are you Swiss then?
I most certainly am. In fact, my family lineage goes back to 870 AD.
LM Johnson Very cool, which canton? And do people in green county know swiss, cause I heard that you are very proud of your swiss heritage.
Schwanden, Glarus -- where the original immigrants came from. They immigrated in the mid 1800s. Very proud of my Swiss heritage -- I was born in 1950 and participated in the Wilhelm Tell Festival for many years. Of course, the town no longer resembles the town I grew up in, but that is progress, I suppose.
There are at least three languages of the Swiss people -- Swiss Italian, Romansch, Swiss German. Ny father was fluent in Swiss/German, which is a variation of German.
R.I.P. John Marty 2017 . He was a wonderful , man with Great family and history in New Glarus . a nice video .
I'm so sorry to hear of John's passing. He was wonderful to work with on An American Small Town. He will continue to live on through this story.
If former holders and their supporters had allowed former slaves to continue building towns they had established with the end of slavery, we too would have a similar story. The finest example is of Tulsa, OK, nicknamed Black Wall Street. Blacks founded towns across the south, but faced terror campaigns and were eventually motivated to leave - heading North for factory jobs, but nothing compares to building your own town, having your own land and working for yourself, enjoying the literal fruits of your labors.