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Article: SWISS STORY BOOK BY NEW GLARUS NATIVE DOCUMENTS HIS COMMUNITY.(LIFESTYLE)
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- The Capital Times
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- November 30, 2007
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Byline: MARY BERGIN The Capital Times
Luck, in part, is what places New Glarus in Wisconsin instead of New York, Mexico or Algeria. Really.
Poverty and a lack of land on which to grow food forced a desperate Swiss government to seek a new place for its citizens to live. More than a dozen options were weighed.
Luck, in part, is what helped Swiss immigrants survive on the acreage that became New Glarus.
Had their first Wisconsin winter, in 1845, been harsher, the first 193 arrivals might not have had the energy or time to construct enough housing to shelter them.
And luck, in part, placed Kim Tschudy's grateful ancestors in New Glarus. They impressed upon ...