A lot of pent up energy from the past year needed an outlet. Yesterday we got in our car and drove. Having heard that good sausage can be found in Wishek, we thought why not find out. A stronger reason though was to visit with her cousin who recently lost his wife. We hadn’t seen him since and now had a pleasant visit with him. There were more miles to drive. Michael Miller told us recently we should drive to Strasburg and visit some of the historic German-Russian cemeteries located there. We located just the one located in the middle of a field where a road did not lead. Walking across dry grass that crunched underfoot, we entered the Tiraspol Cemetery. It contains only a few grave markers today, but at one time was sizable. A plaque on a fencepost lists a hundred or so names. As we understood it, most of the graves were relocated to other cemeteries. A diphtheria epidemic in the 1890s claimed the lives of many of them.
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