Mastodawn

#FotoVorschlag: Typisch für deine Stadt/Region // Typical for your city/region

You will be surprised: #bluegrass. We have a vibrant #music scene in the area and a #festival at our heritage centre.

#Alsatians emigrated to #Texas and later introduced their music to their families at home. And we exported an original house to #Castroville: https://texashillcountry.com/castroville-little-alsace/ rebuilt stone by stone by students of our region.

Music knows no boundaries and draws inspiration from many regions as travelling.

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Petra van Cronenburg Mar 17

2/2 If you find the mixture of "Germans" and "French" in that US article quite wild: Many people in the USA don't know that Alsace changed it's nationality several times in history, often with horrible consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace#History

We are bilingual: the official language is French (like the nationality), the regional language is the Alemannic Alsatian.

Alsace - Wikipedia

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Steve Woods

@NatureMC 5 decades ago I was a student in Saarbrücken in Germany and quite often used to pop across to France (Lorraine/Lothringen). At that time lots of the elderly French residents spoke German amongst themselves, whilst in the Saarland, the speech of their German peers was peppered with French vocabulary.