Wallis Church
Wallis Church ]]>
Wedding Day
My daughter on her wedding day in Sengelman Hall, Schulenburg. My Daughter’s Wedding Day ]]>
"Well, Hello There!"
This pen and ink sketch is titled “Well, Hello There” (a drawing of a Baylor co-ed back in the late 1920’s). It was on exhibit at the Brenham Fine Arts League until somebody bought it. This is a copy. “Well, hello there!” ]]>
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Elegant Lady Drawings
My mother-in-law was a very elegant lady, much more refined than any of the wonderful Wendish women I grew up with. The Wendish ladies wore sun bonnets and dresses sometimes made of flour sacks. After my wife’s mother died, we inherited huge stacks of photos of elegant ladies, all in elegant, often formal attire. These
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August Schkade
Weldon Mersiovsky sent me an email earlier this year and asked me if I could help a woman named Carol Watson find a patent issued to her grandfather. I agreed to take on the task and contacted Carol Watson. She told me that het grandfather was August Schkade and that he was born on September
“The Folklore of the Texas Wends” by Charles Wukasch
This article by Dr Wukasch first appeared in Concordia Connections 5.3 (1988): 8. The Wends pioneered Lutheranism in Texas when they settled in the Serbin (Lee County) area in 1854. Many Concordia alumni are of Wendish ancestry. The letters “sch” in conjunction (as in the author’s name) are often seen in Wendish names. -0- All
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Bronze Plaque Remembers Sorbian American War Heroes by David Zersen
The following article appeared in the April 2015 Newsletter of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society in Serbin, Texas. Bronze Plaque Remembers Sorbian American War Heroes [Even while we continue to observe the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, we should also remember that 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of
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