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Article: In New Glarus? Don't miss the Swiss

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Dennis McCann

In New Glarus? Don't miss the Swiss

By DENNIS MCCANN

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Sunday, April 2, 2000

New Glarus -- When in Rome, you know. Passing through Green County the other day, I pulled into New Glarus for a sandwich of the finest local Swiss cheese.

I got fed all right, and got religion, too. It turned out that the big church that towers -- literally -- over New Glarus from its hillside throne in the center of town is having a birthday, and it's a big one.

The church, of course, is as Swiss as the local cheese, because as much as almost any community in Wisconsin, New Glarus has kept alive the culture of its earliest immigrant settlers.

These settlers were from the ...

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