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Article: NEW BOOK TELLS THE NEW GLARUS SWISS STORY.(DAYBREAK)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2007
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Byline: CHRIS MARTELL cmartell@madison.com 608-252-6179
For much of the 20th century, New Glarus has been promoting itself as Wisconsin's Little Switzerland. But things were very different when it was founded in the mid-19th century by Swiss immigrants who wanted nothing more than to blend inconspicuously into American society.
A new book, "The Swiss of New Glarus" by Kim Tschudy (Arcadia Publishing, 2007, $19.99, softcover), is a photographic account of the long transition into America's Little Switzerland.
Tschudy's book is the result of requests he'd received over the years for reprints of his father's 1970 "New Glarus Photograph Journal," ...
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