Travels With Germanna
by Katharine Brown
With education and international outreach being two key components of the Mission of The Germanna Foundation it is only natural that travel opportunities be a part of the offerings of Germanna. The annual trip to Germany, which has proven enormously popular, is now joined by the annual Germanna Historical and Genealogical Cruise and an additional Germany trip. These travel opportunities will create rich and lasting memories while being thoroughly enjoyable as well. Katharine Brown, Germanna Trustee and veteran traveler with Germanna, will share some of the highlights with you. What type of experiences will you have in your Travels With Germanna?
What places can you visit in your travels with Germanna?
How long is the Germany Trip by Germanna?
Is there more than one trip to Germany with Germanna?
How are the trips different?
What are the logistics of the trip to Germany?
Where do we go on the trip to Germany?
What makes the Germanna trip to Germany unique?
What types of experiences were had on previous trips to Germany?
Are things already arranged for us on the trip to Germany?
What type of food will we eat on the trip to Germany?
How is travel within Germany handled on the Germanna trip?
What kind of people will we meet on the trip to Germany?
Where does the Germanna cruise go?
What experiences were most enjoyable on the inaugural Germanna cruise?
What can we look forward to on the next Germanna cruise?
What is the weather like on the Germanna cruise?
When are the various travels with Germanna?
Is it okay to go on all the travels with Germanna?
What are some of the best reasons to travel with Germanna?
To get the answers to these questions and more, plan on attending Katharine's presentation on July 17 at the Germanna Conference and Reunion.
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Who is Katharine Brown?
Katharine is proud to descend from 1714 Germanna immigrants John Jacob Rector and his wife Anna Elisabeth Fishback, as well as from Elisabeth’s immigrant parents, Philip Fishback and his wife Elisabeth Heimbach, and Peter Hitt and his second wife, Elisabeth Otterbach, daughter of the immigrants Hermann Otterbach and his wife Elisabeth Heimbach.
Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Katharine grew up in the 1878 house her Rector ancestor William Nelson Chancellor built, and that she and her husband Madison are now restoring. She graduated from Hollins College then received a Ph.D. in history from The Johns Hopkins University. She has been executive director of the Stonewall Jackson House in Lexington, Virginia, and the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace (now Presidential Library) in Staunton, Virginia, and director of research and collections at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia.
For the past ten years, she has been a founding partner of Lot’s Wife Publishing, a local history publishing company. She is the author or co-author of a dozen books on Virginia history and church history. She is an adjunct Professor of History and Art at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, where she has taught historic preservation, museum studies, and furniture history for the past 25 years. She and Madison are the proud parents of three married sons and grandparents of three granddaughters. They have enjoyed leading each of the Germanna trips to Germany, and Katharine also chairs the Foundation’s publications committee. She is the author of Germanna Record #17.