-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GV] Heritage Fest, May 18th, Redwood City, CA From: Patrice Miller <patrice@attbi.com> Date: Sat, May 4, 2002 3:24 pm To: GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com "BRIDGING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE" The Golden Gate Chapter of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia is hosting this year's California District Council “Heritage Fest” on May 18 in Redwood City, which is located between San Francisco and San Jose. The “Fest” will be held at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 468 Grand Street. Special guests will include Pastor Horst Gutsche from Barrhead, Alberta, Canada and Alexander Pfaffenrot and Andreas Lieder, both from Unterluess, Lower Saxony, Germany. Pfaffenrot and Lieder are deeply involved in humanitarian and religious work inside the former Soviet Union. Mr. Pfaffenrot will speak at the 3:00 p.m. session. The Heritage Fest will offer a complete day of outstanding presentations: SESSION OUTLINE 8:00 AM — REGISTRATION 9:00 AM — OPENING CEREMONIES 9:30 AM — PLENARY SESSION I: “COMPARING MILESTONES OF THE RUSSIAN GERMANS” “Volga Germans” - Robert Benson “Black Sea Germans” - Margaret A. Freeman “Bessarabian Germans” - Arthur E. Flegel 11:00 AM — CLASSROOM SESSIONS “Travels in 2001 and Russian-German Connections” “Germany” - Bernice Geringer Madden “Argentina” - Warren Schmidt “Ukraine” - Michael Rombs “Germans in Bessarabia (1800 – 1918)” - Judy Remmick-Hubert “ SOAR (Saving Our Ancestral Records): an Update” - Robert Benson, Ken Leffler “Writing Stories about Russian Germans” - Judy Frothinger 12:15 PM — LUNCH WITH RAFFLE AND CHILDREN’S MAY POLE DANCE 1:30 PM — CLASSROOM SESSIONS “Growing up in Russian-German Communities” “The Dakotas” - Ortwine Dockter “Portland, Oregon” - Ed Wagner “Little York, New York” - Elizabeth Adler Meyer “The Culture of the Germans in Russia”: presentation of the 2001 Eugen Miller video from Russia “Village Research” “Glückstal Colonies’ Bicentennial Project” - Margaret A. Freeman “Kukkus Database” - Eleanor L. Sissell “Village Coordinators’ Reports” “Genealogy in the Electronic Age” - Carol J. Harless 3:00 PM — PLENARY SESSION II: RUSSIAN-GERMAN EXPERIENCES AND MENTALITIES “Some Reflections on the Ostforschung and its Critics: Implications for Assessing the Literature of the Germans in Russia” - Roland Wagner “Russian-German Experiences in Siberia: Past and Present” - Alexander Pfaffenrot 4:15 PM — PLENARY SESSION III: “CULTURAL RETENTION IN RUSSIAN-GERMAN WEDDING TRADITIONS” “Warenburg, Russia” - Richard Kisling “Fresno, California” - Joan Kincade “Germany — Aussiedler Families” - Johanna Meisner 6:15 PM — DINNER SESSION: “EMINENT RUSSIAN GERMANS” “Georg Dinges: Pioneer in the Study of Volga-German Dialects” - Irma Eichhorn “From Odessa to the World — Sviatoslav Richter’s Journey to Greatness” - Richard Kisling Other activities include Computer Genealogy Consulting, GR Books, Musical Entertainment, Old Photo Reproduction, Arts and Crafts… The cost of the Fest is $10 for pre-registration plus the optional costs of lunch ($7) and dinner ($13). Registration is $15 at the door. For information call Richard Kisling at (415) 776-5476, or e-mail him at rkisling@pacbell.net. PRE-REGISTRATION AHSGR / CDC HERITAGE FEST MAY 18, REDWOOD CITY CALIFORNIA Name(s)_________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address___________________________________________________________ Telephone________________________________________________________________ Pre-registrations @ $10 _______ Lunches @ $7 _______ Dinners @ $13 _______ TOTAL _______ Make checks payable to "AHSGR" Mail to Kay Boynton, Treasurer 501 Moorpark Way #106 Mountain View, CA 94041