Emigratie is niet altijd even gemakkelijk maar ik zal hier aan denken als ik weer klaag over het eten of weinig beenruimte in het vliegtuig.
http://www.exulanten.com/frankmt.html
Onderdeel van het artikel:
After saying goodbye to their loved ones and cherished homes, the first tedious leg of the journey
took them from hilly, green Frankonia by small boat, canal, train, by foot and by boat again to the
Port Of Bremen. Their courage was as great as their enthusiasm.
They had a tumultuous voyage across the Atlantic where they encountered several violent storms,
seasickness, the "pox", which killed one child, and they even managed to collide with a fishing
trawler. Wind blew them north and they had to dodge icebergs for three days through dense fog.
They didn't reach New York Harbor for fifty days. Then, to get to Michigan, they had to take a
steamboat and then a train which ended up colliding with a coal train, and then another steamboat.
They next took a steamer to Detroit and a sailing ship from there up Lake Huron for a 7 day trip to
Bay City where they had to pull the ship 15 miles up the Saginaw River to Saginaw.
Four months after they left Germany, the 15 colonists then walked 12 miles through swamps and
forest with their belongings in an oxcart to Frankenmuth where they selected an area with slightly
rolling hills for their settlement because it reminded them of home. Once in Frankenmuth, on the 680
acres of Indian land purchased from the federal government for $1,700.00, they cleared the land,
built up farms and raised families while faithfully tending to their mission of educating the Indians.