Today I volunteered to help Suin and Lee, professors of German at IPFW, with their brilliant “German on the Spot” event at the local public library. People could drop in with any old document, postcard, letter, photo… written in German that they had always wondered what it said on there.
My (only slightly rusty) skills acquired 1965 in fourth grade in Germany – reading and writing Sütterlin-/Kurrentschrift – came in handy to decipher faded handwriting. The personal touch, reading snippets about people’s lives, makes history enjoyable and interesting.
The event was covered by local media