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Not right now, but i will be teaching a class on "The Anglo-American
Upper Rhine" this fall/winter, and we will follow some of the traces
Twain, Hemingway, Crane, Stein, Chandler, and others left around here.

best
w

On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 10:24:50 -0700
 Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>In Notebooks and Journals - Vol II, under the note for Allerheiligen
>is
>a note "C went down & visited the waterfalls."  I suspect he was
>referring to the Büttensteiner Waterfalls, known today as the All
>Saints Waterfalls.  
>
>Can anyone verify this?  From Wikipedia:
>
>"The waterfalls belonged for centuries to All Saints' Abbey, the ruins
>of which are only a few hundred metres away. Because they lie in a
>deeply incised and narrow valley, they were inaccessible for a long
>time. Not until the early 19th century were they discovered with the
>aid of ladders. In 1840 the forestry authorities built a path that
>enabled access to the falls via several flights of steps and bridges.
>Because it receives so many visitors it has had to renovated several
>times already."
>
>They are mentioned in Baedeker's guidebook which was reportedly used
>by
>Twain.
>
>-- 
> There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt
>of
>                          in your philosophy.
>                        http://bscottholmes.com


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
Dept. of English 
Centre for Security and Society
Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
Rempart St. 15
D-79098 Freiburg
Germany

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