ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- Butch Dallmann of Alexandria grew up hearing stories about his great-great-great-grandfather, an Austrian organist and choir master named Franz Gruber. In the small Austrian ...
THEY SAY IT’S all the fault of a poor church mouse. It was the winter of 1818 in the village of Oberndorf near the Austrian Bavarian border. It’s a poor region and often the people starve. Like all ...