Killing Cousins (2002)
“The exterior was white sandstone with arched stained-glass windows, evenly distributed down both sides of the church, that depicted scenes from the Bible. The wooden benches had been hand-carved by the first German immigrants to this town over two hundred years ago. I’ve never understood how a German town in predominantly German Missouri had a church with a Spanish name.
New Kassel had remained mostly German until the Irish influx of the mid-1850s. Then New Kassel had been shaken up just a bit.... And, of course, the twentieth century brought people from other areas. My parents were some of them. My dad was from southeast Missouri, my mother from West Virginia. They met in St. Louis and somehow ended up in New Kassel in the 1960s. But the town was still largely full of originals, people whose families had been in the New Kassel area since before 1900.
In St. Louis, it was the other way around. The French had settled it, but by the middle of the 1800s scarcely a French name could be found.MoreLess
New Kassel had remained mostly German until the Irish influx of the mid-1850s. Then New Kassel had been shaken up just a bit.... And, of course, the twentieth century brought people from other areas. My parents were some of them. My dad was from southeast Missouri, my mother from West Virginia. They met in St. Louis and somehow ended up in New Kassel in the 1960s. But the town was still largely full of originals, people whose families had been in the New Kassel area since before 1900.
In St. Louis, it was the other way around. The French had settled it, but by the middle of the 1800s scarcely a French name could be found.MoreLess
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