Have Some Serious Fun with Erika

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Hippie picnics in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to a flowery soundtrack of the Monkees, Donovan, and Nancy Sinatra. Then suddenly the scene changes abruptly to mountain valleys, yodelling choruses, and polka folk in traditional Swiss costume with the Valais Alps looming on the horizon. How a child can handle such a disparate wealth of idyll, how a woman can finally create her own unique...

Swiss American Council of Women

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Dear Swiss, American, and all other women interested in Switzerland,

Join the Swiss American Council of Women (SACW). In late November 2003, I became actively involved in a new initiative to promote women that has now grown to over 300 members. The list of events that the Swiss-American Council of Women has produced and organized is very impressive. It all started with a kick-off women's leade...

Hans Ruedi Giger - Not Just an Alien

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Have you ever seen the movie Alien? It might surprise you that the guy who created Alien is from the oldest city in Switzerland! His name is Hans Ruedi Giger, and he is from Chur. Hans Ruedi attended the same school I did: the Buendner Kantonsschule. Maybe that's where he got his dark ideas!

If you ever visit Chur, you have to visit the Giger Bar-you feel like you're in an Al...

Hornussen

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On a visit to Switzerland many years ago, my host was driving down a country road and suddenly stopped, backed up, and parked near a field. \We got out of the car and went to see what the people were doing in the field. My host already knew, but he wanted to show me because he was certain that I would never have seen anything like it.

I remember someone out in the field with a huge paddle, al...

My Dad's Swiss Saying About Pennies

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I don't think that many people still stop and pick up pennies lying on the ground. But I do. Each time I reach down, I say to myself, "Wer den Rappen nicht ehrt, ist den Franken nicht wert." It was a little saying that I heard from my dad, and it means, "He who does not honor the penny is not worth the dollar."