It might be these........
or it could actually be this one because it did say "johann" but I couldn't make out anything else.....
Yes, the first few days I had the halls pretty much to myself. There are probably less than 50 graduate students on campus and no undergrads during the summer. There are several summer camps that started on Wed., so now there is at least a little life around here. Soccer kids & girls basketball as far as I can tell.
This morning I ventured up north about 15 miles to the little village of Lake Church. Actually it is just a Catholic Church and school--maybe a little restaurant. Anyway, I went roaming around the cemetery in hopes of finding the grave of one of my great-great grandfathers. He and his wife were married in the church in 1874 and he died in 1891 and is supposedly buried there. Unfortunately all the grave stones from that era were in pretty bad shape, so I didn't find any sign of a "Johann Kuther." Apparently Johann was a very popular name though, because just about every other grave was Johann. Also it was apparent that the Kriar family was the dominant family in the area and the rest were all German names as well. So sadly I took a few pictures of the cemetery and had a nice walk around and then left rather disappointed.
This afternoon I spent a few more hours working on my self-portrait assignment---it is coming along. Maybe I'll post a picture of it tomorrow. I am procrastinating. I should be writing a couple of papers, but I can't get motivated.
2 comments:
I didn't know we had ancestors in Wisconsin! That's cool you found the little town.
I haven't started my papers yet either. I've been having fun online creating a digital scrapbook--which I will have printed into a real bound book when I'm done!
Blue skies; no rain; temperature under 80ยบ. Life could be good if you weren't in Wisconsin. But hey! isn't that cheese country? You going to bring us some whenever you return?
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