In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...
DETMOLD, GERMANY — People jam into the classroom, talking among the trays of double-decker yeast rolls called zwiebach. The air thrums with the sounds of Plautdietsch, a 500-year-old language spoken ...
Listen to this episode of A People's History Of Kansas City, a new podcast from KCUR 89.3. For more stories like this one, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher. Gene Beckman ...