USA Melting Pot Meeting

The USA Melting Pot club will hold its fifth meeting at the Troy Public Library Monday, September 24 from 7-9 p.m. First generation immigrant Hardo Barths, originally from Cologne, will speak on German history, culture, food, and geography.

The language part of his presentation will include the first public reading of a new word-by-word English translation of Heinrich Heine’s famous Loreley poem about a beautiful maiden luring sailors to their death on a still-dangerous section of the Rhine River.

http://troy.patch.com/blog_posts/building-bridges-across-oceans

This new club is unique in building and crossing bridges between ethnic groups, which already have their own individual clubs. In the past four months, we’ve had meetings on Chinese culture and bicycle touring, India’s culture and canoeing, Korean culture and camping, and held a potluck picnic at the Troy Historic Village.

Club Purpose:

• To help newcomers assimilate into the USA and mingle with all ethnic groups


• To celebrate ethnic background & cultural identity, including American culture


• To provide a forum for conversational English


• To encourage face to face dialogue in our increasingly technology-dependent world

For more club information, visit www.USAmeltingpot.org or read http://troy.patch.com/blog_posts/usa-melting-pot-india-canoeing                                                                                                                                             

Future meetings

Thursday, October 18: Brazilian culture (first-generation immigrant Leandro Menezes) and soccer

Thursday, November 15: program TBD

at the Troy Public Library Meeting Room, 7-9 p.m.