Last year, she was here in Iowa, working to keep a language alive. This year, she’ll be across the river in Nebraska for the same reason. Julia Westlake, a filmmaker from Hamburg, Germany, came to ...

HANOVER? When Don and Dorian Bisping are at home, they almost always speak to each other in Low German, the language of their ancestors. Like many Lutherans in north-central Kansas, they stopped ...

DETMOLD, GERMANY — People jam into the classroom, talking among the trays of double-decker yeast rolls called zwiebach. The air thrums with the sounds of Plautdietsch, a 500-year-old language spoken ...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. -- Tina Fehr struggled to find the right English words to say how much happier she would be if her three boys could go to a German school and learn about Jesus. The 33-year-old ...