This article first appeared in The Houston Post, Thursday, September 9, 1977. At La Grange I stopped to see Buddy Zapalac, who operates The La Grange Journal. He took off a while and rode with me up in the north part of Fayette County. I like to ride around with a country editor […]
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This article by Linda Dwyer (dwyer@wilcosun.com) first appeared in her column, Tastes of the Town, printed in the 7 November 2021 edition of The Sunday Sun, the weekend edition of The Williamson County Sun of Georgetown, Texas. Who are the Wends? My day trip to Lee County provided the answer. Wends is a historical name
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In May of this year, 2024, a group of 38 interested Wendish descendants travelled together to Upper Lusatia for a wonderful overview visit to the homeland of our forefathers. Some were my relatives, some longtime friends, and some new friends we met and connected with on the trip. This week we are having a reunion
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In the summer of 2018 I undertook a plan to visit all the Lutheran churches in Texas of my forefathers. I was able to attend a worship service at each of them. When the Wends landed in Galveston December 10, 1854, and settled on the Delaplain League in what is now the Serbin area, they soon
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My great grandmother (Grossmutter as she was called by my mother) Magdalena (Lena) Teinert was born 7 August 1875 near Warda, Texas. Her parents were John and Anna (Kurio) Teinert. John was 13 years old when he came over on the Ben Nevis to American in 1854. His mother died on the voyage and was
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express for March 23, 2023. When the weather is nice, you see adults as well as kids riding bicycles in our neighborhood. In fact, you’re likely to see an entire family riding together on their bikes. This was not the case in
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express for February 23, 2023. As our weather alternates between Spring and Winter, I look forward to bluebonnet season which lies just ahead, a season that triggers a lot of memories and nostalgia for all love-my-State Texans like me! Memories like
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express on 16 February 2023. The egg shortage and high cost of eggs seems to have improved somewhat, perhaps because many folks are buying a small flock of chickens and raising their own egg-producers (so I read recently). Fortunately, my wife and
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Often I find myself researching online for Wendish, Sorbian, Upper Lusatian history and discoveries. Instead of watching TV. I find the research and study much more interesting. Some time ago I began receiving scholarly articles from a source called Academia. One such article especially caught my attention. Because several generations in our family have done the DNA testing, we
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This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express, Feb 9, 2024. My parents loved animals, even their cows, chickens, guineas, and especially their dogs and cats. They passed that love of animals on to my brother and me. Of course, each of us had our own favorite animal
This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express, February 2, 2023. Both my grandmothers wore elegant black dresses for their weddings. At many funerals, such as the recent service for Queen Elizabeth II, all ladies attending wore black dresses as a sign of mourning. After recently looking at
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