Plains Folk

Listening to Junk

11.17.2018 - By Prairie PublicPlay

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The Welk Homestead State Historic Site, near Strasburg, is known to the public mainly as it commemorates the origins and career of Lawrence Welk. It also is committed to interpreting German-Russian culture and pioneer agriculture, because Lawrence’s parents, Ludwig and Christina, were Germans from Russia who proved up a homestead alongside Lake Baumgartner.

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