In Touch with Prairie Living, January 2024
Posted on Wed, 01/03/2024 - 03:43pm
In Touch with Prairie Living, January 2024
By Michael M. Miller
The GRHC is currently temporarily closed for renovation (learn more here).
Staff are available and happy to assist researchers via email or by appointment.
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In Touch with Prairie Living, August 2022
Posted on Mon, 08/01/2022 - 08:29am
In Touch with Prairie Living, August 2022
By Michael M. Miller
The Northwest Blade, Eureka, SD, published a wonderful article in August 2020, “Granddaughter keeps grandmother’s precious chamomile seeds,” by Cindy Schumacher. Cindy wrote about the experiences of Judy Hooff. Judy was a resident of Eureka, founded in 1887, once called the “Breadbasket of the World” for its many wheat elevators and the trains that transported the grain to the rest of the country.
In Touch with Prairie Living, January 2022
Posted on Mon, 01/03/2022 - 01:52pm
By Michael M. Miller
Father Thomas Welk, Wichita, KS, grew up on a farm 11 miles directly east of Strasburg, ND. He translated an important work by Johannes Brendel, “Aus Deutschen Kolonien im Kutschurganer Gebiet,” or “The German Colonies in the Kutschurgan Region.” The original translations were published in a series in “Heritage Review” from April 1979 to December 1981.