Hollyhocks and grasshoppers : growing up German from Russia in America / North Star Chapter of Minnesota Germans from Russia.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Mill City Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xvii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1626525498 (paperback)
- 9781626525498 (paperback)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | Adult Display - Second Floor | 325.2477 H746 | Immigrant Heritage Month - June 2024 | Checked out | 07/10/2024 | 33111007625862 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Christmas services in a country church... going to town on a Saturday night... the utter deliciousness of homemade ethnic food. These are only some of the memories shared by the members of the North Star Chapter of Germans from Russia in this beautiful anthology. The authors' experiences span decades and cross state boundaries, evoking feelings that all descendants of immigrants share. The voices of the past shine through in these pages, good times and hard times, family and friends, new things colliding with old ways. The warmth and steadfastness of these pioneers remains the same, viewed through the eyes of the people who experienced it.
On the land -- Heimweh (Homesickness) -- Was Sprichst Du? (What do you speak?) -- Family -- Townies -- Full circle.
Thirty-five recollections in prose and verse on growing up in Germans from Russia communities in Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Canada.