**SOLD** What's up? Wood for grabs

[Big Ry]

However, had been told that there are major food differences in those who immigrated from the northern part of Germany and those who immigrated from the southern part. Pumpernickel is hard to come by here and really doesn't have all that much flavor. German was offered as a language in my high school. I couldn't take it because of my schedule - I took Spanish.

I mentioned the Timmermann sisters. There were rather well-known, and many celebrities and politicos would come visit with them, and or were entertained by the celebrities and politicos. I cherish their memory because they were big Seguin Matador fans (my high school) and were granted 50-yard line seats for all the football games. They were always there, and all you had to do was to look in the front row, home side, 50-yard line -and there they were, rain or shine - all seven of them! They also gave the football players a banquet at the first of the season and at the end. They had quite the collection of footballs. Every year, we would give them a ball signed by all the players that year. I wonder what happened to all those balls. They were 7 sisters of German descent. What was unique about the Timmermann sisters was that none of them ever married. They all dressed alike every day, all spoke German, and lived together in their more than 100-year-old house. When tourists or newsmen asked why the seven sisters never married, they would just laugh and say they never had time. They were an institution in my home town, when they were alive. And they were the ones who introduced me and many others to the "original" pumpernickel. At christmas, they would bake up very spice up cookies using antique cookie cutters brought over from Germany. Some store in Dallas would come down and get a bunch of the cookies from them and sell them for $2 each in their store. That was an expensive cookie for the time.

Their ancestors were from northern Germany as many, if not most, from our area. If I remember the local history right, some German Prince Solms or something like that brought a bunch of immigrants over and founded the town of New Braunfels and spread out from there.

Thats a very cool story. Things were far different in Germany when my family immigrated. I have records of a Jacob Fehr settling in Easton, PA from the Rhenish Palatinate in Germany. I would guess this counts as southern Germany, but it's kind of midway up on the west side (of present day Germany) - SW of Frankfurt and NW of Stuttgart. I have no clue if immigrants from that part of Germany are common in eastern PA, or if they come from all parts of the country. From my understanding, we are considered to be Pennsylvania Dutch who were know to be settlers from Palatinate. My family cooking is stereotypical PA Dutch - potato salad, coleslaw, apple butter, pork & kraut, shoofly pie. There isn't much talk of food in the historical documents I have, except notes about lack of food during war time. But I know much of the common food in this area were brought over from Germany.

 

[JonathanH]

It's kinda full of what??? .......... Nubs

Californian's & Yanks.

 

[Nature Man]

However, had been told that there are major food differences in those who immigrated from the northern part of Germany and those who immigrated from the southern part. Pumpernickel is hard to come by here and really doesn't have all that much flavor. German was offered as a language in my high school. I couldn't take it because of my schedule - I took Spanish.

I mentioned the Timmermann sisters. There were rather well-known, and many celebrities and politicos would come visit with them, and or were entertained by the celebrities and politicos. I cherish their memory because they were big Seguin Matador fans (my high school) and were granted 50-yard line seats for all the football games. They were always there, and all you had to do was to look in the front row, home side, 50-yard line -and there they were, rain or shine - all seven of them! They also gave the football players a banquet at the first of the season and at the end. They had quite the collection of footballs. Every year, we would give them a ball signed by all the players that year. I wonder what happened to all those balls. They were 7 sisters of German descent. What was unique about the Timmermann sisters was that none of them ever married. They all dressed alike every day, all spoke German, and lived together in their more than 100-year-old house. When tourists or newsmen asked why the seven sisters never married, they would just laugh and say they never had time. They were an institution in my home town, when they were alive. And they were the ones who introduced me and many others to the "original" pumpernickel. At christmas, they would bake up very spice up cookies using antique cookie cutters brought over from Germany. Some store in Dallas would come down and get a bunch of the cookies from them and sell them for $2 each in their store. That was an expensive cookie for the time.

Their ancestors were from northern Germany as many, if not most, from our area. If I remember the local history right, some German Prince Solms or something like that brought a bunch of immigrants over and founded the town of New Braunfels and spread out from there.

Here’s a newspaper article about the Timmermann sisters.

MCKEE: The 7 Timmerman sisters

All of us who grew up in this area are very familiar with the sisters who were called the Seven Wonders of Texas. Their farm drew tourists from all parts

seguingazette.com

 

[Big Ry]

Got the box today. Beautiful wood. Can you tell me if and how long it's been dried?

 

[Eric Rorabaugh]

The walnut and cherry was cut not long ago so its green. The osage has been cut a while