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