On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:38:59 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>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,

That made me smile.
Janet US