This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for May 14, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Our hummingbird feeder has been hanging on a tall rod by the fig tree for a week now, and I’ve seen only one hummer go near it. In fact, I’m not even sure it was a […]
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for May 7, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. One of the many things, in my opinion, that makes America such a wonderful place to live, is the preservation of our various ethnicities. Instead of being a “melting pot” of many cultures, we have preserved
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for April 30, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. It’s hard for me to believe that I have been writing for newspapers in East Bernard, first for the Tribune and then for the Express, for 28 years, writing over 1,400 “Images” columns alone, plus
Glenn intends to write about his ancestors. In order to encourage you, the reader, to research, learn about, remember, and write about yours. Glenn, like all of us, had 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16 great-great grandparents, and 32 great-great-great grandparents. 10 of Glenn’s 16 great-great grandparents are either full-blooded Wends from Lusatia or
This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for April 23, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. My Wendish great grandfather was a tailor in Saxony, Germany. My Wendish grandmother was known for her tiny stitches, her beautiful, hand-pieced quilts, and her superb mastery of the treadle sewing machine. And so was
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This is an English version of a German lecture delivered by David Zersen, OhD. in Bautzen for the 200th birthday of Jan Kilian. The lectures were subsequently published in German in a book titled Jan Kilian (1811-1884) Pastor, Poet, Emigrant. Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, 2014. There is a huge difference between a bequest and a legacy.
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This is the English version of a manuscript, written in English and translated into German by David Zersen, PhD. that was subsequently published as a chapter in a German language book as Der Einfluss der Umgebung auf den kuenstlerischen Ausdruck: Einblicke in die Poesie von Mato Kosyk aus der Sicht der neuen Welt by Peter
This manuscript by David Zersen, PhD. was subsequently published in the The Lutheran Forum as “The Impact in America of the Smallest Slavonic Nation” (2015) Most Lutherans immigrated to the United States as individuals or within a family group. However, there were interesting immigrations that arrived as large groups. Among the least known are the
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A later version of this manuscript by David Zersen, PhD. was published as “An Isolated Texas Lutheran Scholar Living in Hope” in The Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 2, Summer 2018. Recently an end-time mood caught me off-guard. Using the TV remote, during a manic moment of channel-switching, I chanced on a vivid,
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for April 16, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. The Resurrection of our Lord, which we Christians just celebrated, was the beginning of a spiritual movement that spread all over the world. After the miraculous manifestation of the Holy Spirit at the first Pentecost,
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