Plan for the World Wide Gathering of the Pulskamps
Posted on October 3, 2007 - Filed Under World Wide Gathering of the Pulskamps
Mark your calendar and start making your plans! We’re going to have the first ever World Wide Gathering of the Pulskamps August 1-3, 2008 in the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio area near Cincinnati. We have some great ideas for the event, but could always use more help making things happen.
Here’s the plan:
Friday, August 1 Gather at the Kolping Grove, 10235 Mill Road, Cincinnati, OH in the late afternoon for appetizers, German music, story sharing and a nice dinner. We’ll get acquainted with each other, figure out how we are related, share stories, and laugh a lot.
Saturday, August 2 Take chartered buses or private cars to St. Mary-on-the-Rock near Batesville, Indiana, where our earliest ancestors in America worshipped and are buried. Using the shelter and hall at the church as our home base for the day, we will plan special events such as hayrides, a trip to nearby Oldenburg, a very German town, where some Pulskamp cousins still live today. A tour of the area will show you the original farm, purchased in 1845, as well as the second farm purchased by middle son, Gerhard, which still belongs to Pulskamps. Nearby St. Peter’s church is another stop where you can find more graves of early Pulskamps. We’ll also get to see mementos from the early Pulskamps.
Sunday, August 3 Drive your own car around the Cincinnati area visiting German and Pulskamp related sites using the pamphlet we are hoping to develop for the event.
We also plan to republish the two books that have been published about our family in America: Leona Doll wrote about the family of the middle son, whose descendents still own the farmland in Indiana, and Mary Elizabeth Ryan Pulskamp wrote the book about the family of the youngest son, from whom I am descended. We have tons of new information to add to those two books, so you will not want to miss the new book, when it is ready for publication.
Of course, we could use your help in making all this happen. Would you like to help create that pamphlet of sites in Cincinnati? How about helping to create a Pulskamp coloring book we could all enjoy? We could use an artist for that project. Would you like to help plan the dinner on Friday or games for the kids on Saturday? Do you have Pulskamp stories to share? Do you have a connection with a charter bus company? Are you an expert in Quark Express, the software I will use to publish the new book? If so, I could certainly use your help. Let me know if you have other ideas on how you can help.
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