German-American Day

October 02, 2012

National German-American Day is October 6. It’s been celebrated since 1987 in honor of the first German settlement in the colonies. In 1683, several families from Krefeld, Germany settled in Pennsylvania and founded Germantown. In honor of the holiday, I decided to look up German-American authors. Here are a few of them:

•  L. Frank Baum
• Theodore Dreiser
• Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
• Ursula Hegi
• Patricia Highsmith
• Thomas Mann
• Henry Miller
• Sylvia Plath
• Gertrude Stein
• John Steinbeck
• Kurt Vonnegut

So celebrate German-American day in your own way: read a book by a German-American author, eat some schnitzel, try some bratwurst, and adopt a dachshund…

Tess T.
Blue Springs North Branch