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From: Karen
Date: Mon Oct  3 15:09:14 MST 2005
Subject: Appropriate attire....

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andrea: we can go up a little later (10/4/05)

andrea: change in situation (10/4/05)
KeithB: Eisenach (10/4/05)

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KeithB: Eisenach (10/4/05)
andrea: change in situation (10/4/05)
andrea: we can go up a little later (10/4/05)

I don't own any lederhosen. Maybe I'll wear my polka dots.
Trizia/Chris, what is that 1 part beer, 1 part Coke/Sprite thing called? (Or maybe I'll just drink Coke...I drank R.C. at the Greek fest.)
As for my claim to German heritage, my dad was born a Weingartner (Grandpa changed the name legally when Dad was five--too "ethnic") and my mother's grandfather was a Boerngen. But I'm more of an Uff-da (upper midwestern, lefse-eating Norwegian)/ Kiss Me, I'm Irish (Celtic warrior princess with self-deprecating irony) kinda girl.

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From: andrea
Date: Tue Oct  4 09:17:39 MST 2005
Subject: we can go up a little later

Ryan and I can't go up until 10:30-11am...we could meet you guys up there for lunch though. If anyone needs to leave at the later time, we can meet at our house then.
As far as German heritage, my maternal great grandfather Otto Schmidt came to the US in 1864 from Eisenach, Germany. It is between Frankfurt and Berlin according to my dad and uncle. My grandmother wrote a book of her memories growing up, which I cherish. It includes really neat info like where he grew up and a little of what his life was like in Germany.

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From: andrea
Date: Tue Oct  4 13:49:17 MST 2005
Subject: change in situation

Ryan and I can now meet at the Seneca house at the previously discussed time of 8:45-9am. We'll see ya there.

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From: KeithB
Date: Tue Oct  4 15:31:47 MST 2005
Subject: Eisenach

Andrea, yesterday (10/3) was German Reunification Day...15 years ago yesterday, Julie and I were in Germany when it all happened -- we spent that day of German Reunification in a little former East German town named... EISENACH. Isn't that bizarre?
Eisenach was behind the iron curtain during the Cold War, very close to the East/West border in Germany. That day in 1990 was the first day that the U.S. military allowed personnel to travel unfettered into former East Germany territory. So Julie and I decided to do just that, finding Eisenach to be one of the closest larger towns on the map. We went with no information, just going to see what we could find. We found a a very delapidated city of soot and potholes, but we also found a wonderful little festival celebrating reunification -- complete with the oompah band, folk dancing and bratwurst. We also toured the area and found a beautiful little estate turned into a tourist attraction, that was Martin Luther's home for several years (maybe when he wrote the 95 theses?).
This is one of my fonder memories of our time in Germany -- it's very cool that we now have another connection to Eisenach.

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