Lembach, France

... -the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Lembach by US forces and dedicated by US astronaut Russell Schweickart whose grandparents came from Lembach), the butcher shop where Leopold Siess might have worked, and a few other places. We stopped at the post ...

... defenses which France constructed along its borders with Germany and with Italy in the wake of World War I. (The ones near Lembach were built in about 1930.) Generally The French believed the fortification would provide time for their army to mobilize in ...

... to the house. I took a nap and Carol and Daniel worked on translating some old documents. Daniel's sister and brother-in-law arrived in their camper-they're on their way from northern France to Greece for vacation. They had dinner and stayed the night.

      Today was a holiday (Armistice Day) so Daniel didn't have to work. After breakfast (French bread with honey and leftover quiche lorraine), Daniel and Carol went over what they had found and still need to find, I labeled ...