Please let me know of any further information. I am the VP of the South Eastern Wisconsin Chapter of AHSGR in Milwaukee. Thanks. Judy pjkaland@charter.net On 2/11/2014 2:00 AM, ger-volga-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 38th Annual Symposium of The Society for German-American > Studies (Horst Gutsche) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:55:53 -0700 > From: Horst Gutsche <hwg1923@hotmail.com> > Subject: [GV] 38th Annual Symposium of The Society for German-American > Studies > To: "bess-gr@listserv.nodak.edu" <bess-gr@listserv.nodak.edu> > Cc: "bessarabia@grhs.org" <bessarabia@grhs.org>, > "ger-volga@rootsweb.com" <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BAY176-W21C3C61BFA8F67E6B9013BBE900@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > I thought that I would make you aware of this. It will be interesting for those who live near Milwaukee. > > > > Horst > > > > We missed you in New Orleans. Make plans now for 2014. The thirty-eighth annual symposium of the Society for German-American Studies will be held in Milwaukee from April 10th to 13th, 2014. As with New Orleans, the meeting will mark the first time the Society has met in the host city, and the first time in a long time that we?ve met in Wisconsin. A block of rooms has already been reserved at the Hampton Inn Downtown. Mark your calendar. Additional details will appear here as they become available. > > Annual Meeting and Symposium > > German Milwaukee > Milwaukee?s first German settlers arrived in 1839, just four years after the region?s first public land sale. By 1860, they formed a majority of the city?s population, and Milwaukee became the most German large city west of Berlin. Although they lived in all sections of town, the immigrants? particular stronghold was the area west of the Milwaukee River. North Third Street was their ?downtown,? and some merchants reportedly put signs in their windows to reassure non-Germans that they could find ?English Spoken Here.? > > The German community?s key quality was its internal diversity. The newcomers ranged across a broad spectrum of economic, religious, and political backgrounds. Perhaps the most colorful sub-group was the Forty-Eighters, who had fled the homeland after a failed revolt against royal rule in 1848. Well-educated, idealistic, and decidedly liberal, the Forty-Eighters organized musical societies, arts and theater groups, Turner clubs, and other cultural institutions that made Milwaukee the ?German Athens of America.? > > The Germans maintained their distance from the dominant Yankees at first, but in time they exercised a dominance of their own in culture, politics, and industry. The roster of Milwaukee?s leading employers was filled with Teutonic names: Harnischfeger, Falk, and Heil in manufacturing; Pfister, Vogel, and Gallun in tanning; and Pabst, Schlitz, and Miller in brewing. It was the prevalence of German-owned breweries that made Milwaukee the ?beer capital of the world.? > > The wave of anti-German hysteria that crested during World War I nearly washed away the German cultural establishment, and the slow process of assimilation moved the community still further from its roots, but its Germanic heritage continues to shape Milwaukee?s character. In 2000, nearly thirty-eight percent of the population of Milwaukee claimed at least some German ancestry?still the highest proportion in urban America. > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the GER-VOLGA list administrator, send an email to > GER-VOLGA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the GER-VOLGA mailing list, send an email to GER-VOLGA@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of GER-VOLGA Digest, Vol 9, Issue 31 > **************************************** >