"Homesickness of a Glarner in America" is a poem composed just after the turn of the 20th century by a Swiss man named Jakob Baumgartner – my great great grandfather.

He was living in Wisconsin at the time of publishing – translated from German "Heimweh eines Glarners in Amerika".

by KillBosby

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  1. That’s cool! The sernthal is probably what we call sernftal. My great grandmother was also from there so we might be very distant relatives!

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