Eastfield College Library to present “Lone Star and Eagle: German Immigration to Texas” exhibit

by PegNews wire

Goethe Institute, Houston, Texas

Loesscher Band, Cat Spring, Texas.

Eastfield College Library presents “Lone Star and Eagle: German Immigration to Texas,” a Humanities Texas exhibit, October 12 – November 9.

During the 1840s, immigrants left their homeland of Germany and their familiar cities of Hesse-Darmstadt, Kurfiessen, Munsterland, Brunswick, Overlausitz, Mecklenbury-Strelitz, Waldeck, Anhalt, and the Wetzlar-Braunfels area to settle in the Lone Star State. After the failed German uprisings of the 1830s and the revolution of 1848, people seeking a better way of life filled with hope and freedom gravitated to the Republic of Texas. Posters promising free passage and land in exchange for assisting with the fight for Texas Independence lured many idealistic German immigrants. One such man was John Dunst, the “Paul Revere of Texas” who rode twelve and a half days to warn of Santa Anna’s invasion.

This thoroughly entertaining exhibit brings to life the journey of the immigrants from their arrival in Indianola, now a ghost town, to their new settlements such as Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, and Sisterdale. Others chose to concentrate in established towns such as San Antonio, Houston, and Galveston. The German immigrants made profound contributions to the arts and influenced among other things, architecture, music, dance, drama, and religion. On loan through Humanities Texas and with funding from Student Life, Lone Star and Eagle is not to be missed. Please join us in celebrating the remarkable legacy of the German immigrants in Texas.

The project was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Eastfield College Student Life Resources.

For more information, call 972-860-7168 or visit www.eastfieldcollege.com. This event is free to attend.

Source: Eastfield College

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Dallas has it history in this area also dating from the 1870's during the entry of the railroad and settling in areas like Deep Elm and East Dallas a good show to see...Until then A/T, German Heritage...is good....