On 9/24/2014 10:49 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:

>
> In a way it's a shame. When I was growing up in my hometown, many
> church's had German services and English services. I'm sure that was
> true of many communities with a strong ethnic influence. We are
> losing some of who we are as we become more homogenized.
> Janet US
>

In Philadelphia, near my grandmother's house there was the Polish
Church, Irish Church, and German Church in two blocks. I did not know
they had real names (Like Nativity) until I was in my teens,