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Columbus Day, Konrad Basler
Columbus Day, Konrad Basler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On October 12 I drove out to the magnificent autumn forests
by Pennsylvania. I chose highway 22, a route I had been familiar
with since the days at Lehigh University. Once more I was struck
by the speed and the distances mastered nowadays. Unlike us, the
Dorlikon emigrants had measured the distances they covered by the
hour. Carolina, for example, was '2200 hours on sea' from Rotterdam.
In order really to appreciate our modern standards of living, one has
to visualize what since then pioneers have achieved in America- not
only the independence from the British Crown, but also the …
To Have Revenge On The Self-Righteous University: Pietism And Religious Doubt In Sophus Keith Winther's Beyond The Garden State, John M. Nielsen
To Have Revenge On The Self-Righteous University: Pietism And Religious Doubt In Sophus Keith Winther's Beyond The Garden State, John M. Nielsen
The Bridge
In the spring of 1978, Arizona Quarterly published what
was to be the last of Sophus Keith Winther's scholarly
articles. Entitled, "The Emigrant Theme," this essay in many
ways was a summation of Winther's thoughts, not only regarding
the experience of Scandinavian-Americans as told in
literature, but more importantly of his reflections regarding
the whole of human experience. For him, emigration was the
great human story, stretching from the dawn of humankind
in the Olduvai Gorge to a foreboding present. It was the
story of the Israelites wandering in the wilderness; it was the
myth of the American westward movement. …