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Adelrich Steinach's Portrait Of The Ohio Swiss, Adelrich Steinach, Leo Schelbert
Adelrich Steinach's Portrait Of The Ohio Swiss, Adelrich Steinach, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The writer Raumer 1 calls Ohio "queen, wonder of the West" because its fertility surpasses that of the Nile delta and also because of its beauty .... Germans were the first settlers of Ohio and Swiss liked to live among them ....
Immigration: Is It What It Used To Be?, Leland E. Molgaard
Immigration: Is It What It Used To Be?, Leland E. Molgaard
The Bridge
I became interested in this topic as I traveled around the country teaching. My wife and I work with teachers and social workers, training them to conduct a "strengthening families program" for parents and young adolescents. Many of these teachers and social workers serve recent immigrant families and, as I heard them tell of their work, they often told me that these families were unique because they were new immigrants. Yet as I listened, I was struck by how similar these immigrant families were to the families in the community where I grew up in northwest Iowa. The scripts were …