Talk:German-American Day

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Is there a typo here? George H.W. Bush was not elected president until 1988.

Perhaps "Vice" president Bush? Or it was instituted by president Reagan?

Right. This says that Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1987. I will look for some other sources, to check. Awolf002 22:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

I removed the HW reference. The first Google hit for "German-American Day" is to a Geocities page that includes a quote from HW at the beginning, and I think some editor read this and got confused. Tempshill 23:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Level of reality

Is this a real holiday? Where exactly is it celebrated? Or is it a sop to a particular ethnic group, living only in the Congressional Record, like "National Don't Trip On The Sidewalk-Crack Day"? Tempshill 23:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Looks like some German Clubs are doing something on that day, for example in 2004. But it sure is not something big all over. Awolf002 23:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

are there other hyphenated-american days such as British or Italian?10:11, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Germany-American Day uses the founding date of Germantown, Pennsylvania which was actually a Dutch settlement?

So, according to this article Germany-American Day uses the founding date of Germantown, Pennsylvania "the first German settlement in the original thirteen American colonies". Looing at the Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania itself it says "Although the town's name indicates otherwise, Germantown was founded not by Germans, but by Dutch settlers[1], augmented with a much smaller number of people from present-day Germany, in 1681.". Ok, now I'm utterly confused. Looking at the history, it seems User:Rex Germanus contributed the majority of information change from "German settlers" to "Dutch settlers" but as I'm not familiar to the topic I can't comment on the reliability of his sources. In any case, it would probably be useful if someone could double-check the information given. CharonX/talk 02:51, 6 October 2007 (UTC)