Drenkow, Germany
My great-grandparents, on both sides, came over from Germany in the 19th Century, to avoid the militarism of the Prussians and to start a new life in the American Midwest. Here is the little town of Drenkow, in north-central Germany. Click here to view a photograph of the family of my Great-Grandfather Henry Winter, who exercised his new-found freedoms as an American and attended Democratic National Conventions!