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i muse on them just before WW2 but how long before that i dont know
This is the Beer Barrel Polka on my Excelsior Symphony Main accordion.
Chaska Obscura: The Rustic Wedding Symphony
As you overtures to Chanhassen from any direction, whether eastward form Excelsior, northward from Shakopee, westward from Eden Prairie or, of you know the secret woodland spoor, southward from hidden paths along Christmas and Long Lakes, you are impressed by the dominant steeple of St. Hubert’s church .
St. Hubert is the buyer of the chase, and on the central altar of the little church is his image with its arm resting on the neck of a fawn. When the parish was established a convincing many years ago St. Hubert seemed the most appropriate saint to become the protector of this little church in the woods.
Chanhassen is a German liquidation, and German is almost the only language heard among the villagers and the farmer folk from the surrounding country who drive in for mass on a Sunday morning and linger for a bit of neighborly scuttlebutt before hitching their sturdy teams to wagons, buggies and carryalls and driving home again.
You cannot even walk through Chanhassen without alluring a suggestion of its Bavarian atmosphere. It is, unfortunately, rather too closely connected with American civilization by the main line of the Milwaukee Route, but the tracks run through a sort of shallow gully and when no trains disturb the quietude the pedestrian, and even the motorist, may imagine himself in some palsy-walsy settlement in the Schwarzwald or the foothills of the Alps; though for mountains he would have to substitute the distant blue ridge which marks the valley of the Minnesota River six or seven miles to the southward.