mrs.oroblanco
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Re: LDM why you can't get it !
Gossamer,
I tend to side with Cubfan on this part.
I've known, being from Pennsylvania - several old German folks from the homeland. I guess I picture Waltz as I have seen the majority of those
folks that I grew up around. Kind of loner - not necessarily lonely - self-sufficient - doing things his own way, and not depending on too many other folks, but probably when he came around to a town, gravitated towards others that were of like mind. And, probably a pretty private man, as immigrants quite often tended to be back then.
If he killed someone, I suspect it would have been because he thought he had to, as also happened quite often back then - but not a cold blooded killer. I cannot see that.
Yes, he did make a deal with the homestead, but it did not come to fruition - the deal was, for all intents and purposes, cancelled.
I also suspect that the word "miser" might be a little strong - most of the Pennsylvania Deutch (Germans), are frugal - by necessity and by want.
The folks I knew where quite happy to be on their little farms, with their crops and their animals. My mother-in-law used to say they could squeeze a nickle until the buffalo pooped - but, our families traded eggs, and milk and the whole nine yards. They went to town once a month.
They weren't miserly - imo - because, the few things they did buy - was always of very good quality and Built to last.
That's kind of how I "see" Waltz.
Beth
Gossamer,
I tend to side with Cubfan on this part.
I've known, being from Pennsylvania - several old German folks from the homeland. I guess I picture Waltz as I have seen the majority of those
folks that I grew up around. Kind of loner - not necessarily lonely - self-sufficient - doing things his own way, and not depending on too many other folks, but probably when he came around to a town, gravitated towards others that were of like mind. And, probably a pretty private man, as immigrants quite often tended to be back then.
If he killed someone, I suspect it would have been because he thought he had to, as also happened quite often back then - but not a cold blooded killer. I cannot see that.
Yes, he did make a deal with the homestead, but it did not come to fruition - the deal was, for all intents and purposes, cancelled.
I also suspect that the word "miser" might be a little strong - most of the Pennsylvania Deutch (Germans), are frugal - by necessity and by want.
The folks I knew where quite happy to be on their little farms, with their crops and their animals. My mother-in-law used to say they could squeeze a nickle until the buffalo pooped - but, our families traded eggs, and milk and the whole nine yards. They went to town once a month.
They weren't miserly - imo - because, the few things they did buy - was always of very good quality and Built to last.
That's kind of how I "see" Waltz.
Beth
