Heritage Day

Luxembourg Heritage Day 1980 Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

Sponsored by the Luxembourg Society of Wisconsin

"Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sinn!" "We want to remain what we are!"

Luxembourg National Motto

In 1980, I first learned about the Luxembourg Society of Wisconsin. I wrote to Dorothy Schanen Simpson, who was planning the annual Luxembourg Heritage Day. She invited me to join the Society and come to the Ozaukee County Park for Luxembourg Heritage Day in June. These are some of the photographs I took that day (the pictures are slightly faded from aging, but they will still give you an idea of how much fun it was!).


	All of the images above were taken in June 1980 at Luxembourg Heritage Day in the Ozaukee County Park north of Milwaukee, WI. Top left: Dick Simpson gives a lesson in the basics of learning Letzebuergesch. Middle left: Lloyd Croatt talks genealogy with guests (scroll down) while gentlemen tell tales and ladies show off quilts and crafts. Middle right: Dorothy Schanen Simpson of the Luxembourg Society of Wisconsin checks attendance. Lower left and right: scenes in Ozaukee County Park, just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During the mid-1800s, many Luxembourgers immigrated to this area of the Midwestern United States, settling in such towns as Port Washington, Cedarburg, Fredonia, Belgium, Holy Cross, and Grafton. Hundreds of their descendants still live there today.