Ambassador pays tribute to Kim Simon; The ambassador of Luxembourg to the United States visits St. Donatus

From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | Date: December 3, 2006| Author: ROB KUNDERT | Copyright information

ST. DONATUS, Iowa - Joseph Weyland said St. Donatus reminded him of home.

"Look at this countryside. It is similar to the south of Luxembourg," he said of his homeland in Europe.

Immigrants to America settled in the area in the 1800s, he said, and likely chose the landscape because of its similarity to their homeland.

The ambassador of Luxembourg to the United States visited the small town south of Dubuque on his one-year anniversary in the post to pay tribute to the lat...

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