Germans from Russia Heritage Collection

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🇺🇸

Life on the Homestead is happening TODAY at the Welk Homestead State Historic Site near Strasburg!

🚜 Tractor Trek begins at 9 a.m.
🚜 Tractor Show at 10 a.m.
🛍 Vendors & Food Vendors from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
🧺 Demonstrations throughout the day
📚 Dr. Tom Isern at 1 p.m.
🎶 Joyful Voices patriotic performance at 2 p.m.
🥧 FREE kuchen after the performance!

Bring your lawn chairs, your family and your patriotic spirit for a wonderful day celebrating America’s heritage.

See you there!

Eureka Lutheran College, 1910s. The college was established in 1910 but left Eureka in 1933 when it merged with St. Paul Lutheran College. The main building pictured here then served as a nursing home known as the Lutheran Home until 1989 when it was replaced by a new facility. The 1910 building was destroyed in a controlled burn in 2000.

A summer kitchen is a separate cooking space often located away from the main house, used primarily during warm weather. It helps keep the house cooler by allowing cooking outside the primary living area. Such kitchens typically featured their own cooking facilities, sometimes including brick ovens for baking and preparing meals and preserves for the winter.

John George Riedel Family in front of a house with summer kitchen. Anna, Lydia, Anna, Marie, Jacob, George, John and a cousin Alex.

Online Collections Database https://ahsgr.org/research/archives-and-special-collections/