“While it’s a little cold outside, I had to get out of the house today. I’ve been doing a little work on my ‘walls’ project and thought I’d take you along on a walk around the neighborhood in part of a town where I live in Rothenburg, Germany.”
The Wurstfest Association of New Braunfels on Thursday announced the cancelation of its 2020 festival due to considerations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “This will be the first time Wurstfest has canceled a festival in our 60-year history,” Randy Rust, 2020 Wurstfest president, said in a statement. “We have had our challenges in the past, including flood events and most recently a fire that destroyed the Marktplatz building.
It’s interesting. Helen, Georgia is one of those bizarre places. I’d heard about it once or twice, and was there 20 years ago, but didn’t remember much about it. I remember it being a German-themed town, embraced by the entire town, with one awesome Oktoberfest. But this is the middle of the summer, not during Oktoberfest, during a pandemic. Would Helen, Georgia still have that Germain “flair” I remembered? The answer is not so simple.