The Frau Erica Texts
An index of biographies, memoirs, histories, recipes, and oddments The Frau Erica Project has lots of text files — long and short, English and German — all of them linked from the appropriate family pages. That means, however, that some readers might not discover things of interest that are available elsewhere on the site. This index gathers most of those text files, sorts them by genre, and provides links (usually a name). Style point: The Frau Erica archive tries to use birth names for everyone. Authors are listed here by birth name, sometimes with married name appended after a slash. Adelheid Nickel, for example, is alphabetized under ”Mueller/Nickel, Adelheid.” Frau Erica herself, mother of many Muellers, appears under the Rickmeyer name. There are 93 of these text files in the archives. To narrow your search, select: Biography | Memoir | History | Literary Work | Letters | Recipes | Oddments || All Files
Oddments, Interesting Bits
Five Rocks Five Rocks: History and Rules of the Game
Some beachcombers make little piles of stones, call them cairns, and walk on. For the LeRoi-Nickel household in Portland, Oregon, that spur-of-the-moment creative task has evolved into a planful, aspirational, competitive art form evocative of work by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi</a> (1904–1988). The annual roster of invited participants grows; the rules continue to evolve. Luther On Politics Brother Martin on government officials
Elected officials who are interested only in themselves “grow furious and foolish, begin to rage, and turn everything topsy-turvy ... and the government collapses.” Luther On Vaccination Brother Martin on public health
Luther recognized an individual’s responsibility for community public health by accepting medicine and other measures. Not taking precautions against the plague and thereby infecting others would make people “responsible before God” for their neighbor’s death. Mueller Lexicon FrauErica.org: A Mueller Lexicon
Certain German words and phrases had currency and particular meaning within the Mueller family circle. Many are no longer to be found in German/English dictionaries or online translators. So here they are, more than two dozen of them. Mueller, Rev. Ernst Opa’s report card: almost satisfactory
His German and Math were <em>Unbefriedigend</em> (unsatisfactory). No A's (<em>Lobenswert</em>)‚ no F’s (<em>Schlecht</em>) Nickel, Adele Adele dances at Jacob’s Pillow
The Liz Gerring Dance Company, in residence at Jacob’s Pillow in August 2012, won critical acclaim from the <em>Boston Globe</em>. Nickel, James James Hilbert Nickel: Artist in Venture
A three-part fraternal <em>Festschrift</em> written by brother Joel in celebration of the artist’s 55th birthday, November 30, 1998. | 
