Minnesota River Interviews -John Fritsche

Minnesota River Interviews
John Fritsche
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Everybody in [New Ulm] knows where Goosetown is: they just go point down the river."

 


 

 
 
 
Fritsche with Goosetown
sign, New Ulm
 
Goosetown sign, New Ulm
 

Goosetown sign

 
John Fritsche by Gertie the Goose statue New Ulm

[Goosetown is a neighborhood in New Ulm, Minnesota in the floodplain along the Minnesota River].

Video Text: "Goosetown got its name because of the geese that were down here as the German immigrants had their little farms and had their geese down by the river. It is a little piece of history that some of the people don’t think about. Everybody in town [New Ulm] knows where Goosetown is: they just go point down the river. You’re going to run into it. There are no special markers or anything other than the Goosetown [statue]. Gertie the Goose which was donated by Dr. Ann Vogel. She has a little story that she put together about Gertie the Goose so now this marks Goosetown. You’ll find that some of the houses down here have a goose sitting out on their front yard as part of their decorations, they get ceramic geese as part of their house decorations."

 
 
Fritsche by Gertie the Goose sculpture
 
Cottonwood River Watershed
 
Cottonwood River
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