Photo by Cristina Janney/Hays Post A classroom idea rooted in local history became a published project celebrating Volga German heritage. As part of the 150-year sesquicentennial celebration, two Hays ...
This lesser-known immigrant group in the area first migrated to Russia after the promise of religious freedom and land, but ...
The Ellis County Historical Society continued sesquicentennial celebrations with a Volga German cooking demonstration led by ...
From 1764 to 1772, there were 106 German colonies established along the Volga River on the barren Russian steppe. By 1910, there were many Volga German immigrants living in south-central Idaho, ...
In 1993, Yuri Gaar brought his 74-year-old mother from Kazakhstan back to her homeland here in the meadows and woodland along the Volga River. Together, they strolled past their village’s two-story ...
Until he started at Grant High School, Jerry Schleining thought everyone grew up with cousins, uncles, aunts and both sets of grandparents within four blocks of home. Steve Schreiber, who grew up near ...
“We’re not Russians! Never let anyone label us that way. Just because a chicken lays an egg in an oven, that doesn’t make the egg a biscuit.” I remember hearing those words as a child. My mother went ...
When seven tired travelers ended their journey at the Sheboygan railroad depot in 1892, there was no fanfare. Like other immigrants before them, those three men, three women and a boy from half a ...
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