Table Talk

It was exactly 50 years ago this fall that I spent a semester abroad as an American Field Service exchange student to Austria. Among the many highlights of that remarkable and wonderful five months, during which I lived with a family in a small town in Styria, was the opportunity for me to experience first-hand a tradition that was quite different from what I knew at home.

Some of our typical American traditions, such as the Christmas tree, have their origins in the German-speaking co ...

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