May 2010
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May 26, 2010
The ten Wisconsinites, here from May 14-22, did a great piece of work, volunteering to scrape paint and loose plaster off the walls of a centuries-old building, the first step in the renovation of a parsonage slated to be a Center for Environmental Education and Youth Retreats. They left behind “Mt. Wisconsin”, which stands outside the Hammersdorf parsonage, and took home many...
"Mohikaner spenden für Sachsen"
A connection between Wilderness Lutheran of the Stockbridge Mohican community in Wisconsin and the Lutheran Church in Hermannstadt/Sibiu was featured in the April 30, 2010, Hermannstädter Zeitung. ”The last of the Mohicans supporting “the last of the Siebenbürger Sachsens” (German-Transylvanians) was the intriguing point registered. Mohican people provided funds for some apple...
May 9, 2010
It has been so good to come here and begin to learn from and about our friends in Transylvania and Romania. Honestly said, for much of our lives, Transylvania was a movie locale and Romania was a mysterious part of the Soviet bloc. It is important to fill our information voids and to seek to displace sterotypes and misinformation accumulated over the years.
We are reminded here of how...