Long island turners

Originated in 1875

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Please pardon a personal note:

My fathers folks came from Achern, a town in southwest Germany, just south of Baden Baden.  I recently found out that Achern has their own website; www.achern.de and that the Achern Turners are still going strong and also have their own website, www.tv-achern.de .

I met Rudi and Uschi Hamerski from TV-Achern at the Frankfurt Turnfest and had such a good time talking with them, that I thought others may want to do the same sort of thing.  So, I am offering time and space on this page to any Turner who would like to have a link back to the Turnverein in the town where their folks came from.

If you want the link posted here, just send me an email with the link and a few words about the society.

American Turners  This is the official Website of the American Turners.
You can find up to date links to Turner Societies on the Societies page there.

You can browse for American Turner Articles using Google's Advanced search.
We put American Turners in the exact phrase and exclude Nat, Wood and Page.
We get about 200 sites, some of them in Germany, so we just hit the Google "Translate this page" feature.

Turners in Germany

Rinteln Turners  This is the German society that sent a great group of Turners to our National Turnfest in Aurora.  The main page is mostly in English and you can get to pictures of their trip easily.  There is also a report of their experience at the Turnfest and here in the USA, auf Deutsch.  Lots of interesting photos in a very nicely laid out web site.

Műnchen Turngau This is the web site for the Munich District.  It is almost all in German, but it has plenty of interesting things there.

2009 Turnfest  The official web site for the 2009 Frankfurt Turnfest.  English translations are available for most pages.

Sports

Volleyball Magazine
Gymnastic Pictures 
www.JustVolleyballStore.com 
www.volleyballmemorabilia.com

Sports Camp

International Gymnastic Camp  This is a very nice web site with lots of things for gymnasts.  The camp is run by Turner Bruno Klaus and if you know a youngster interested in gymnastics, you should check out this web site.

History

Max Kade German American Center  Indiana University Perdue University Indianapolis

Email the American Turners Historian  Giles R. Hoyt, PhD
Article about the roots of American Gymnastics
Central Cincinnati Turnverein article in German American Citizen League web site
Athenaeum Indianapolis article in German Life Magazine
German American Activities in New York City
German and other countries folk songs - Lots of songs with melody, lyrics and sheet music.
 
Cazoo.org is a web site just starting up and features titles and links to German American Turner societies.  They already have a link to our site and many other Turner societies in the United States.
 
Booneville MO Turners History

Frederick L. Jahn  -  We recommend you go to Google and enter Frederick L. Jahn and select from the sites that appear, we used Gymmedia.

History Site for the 20th New York Regiment  This is the Regiment made up of New York area Turners that served in the Civil War

Geschichtstheatergesellshaft  A German Web Site, but their English is better than mine.  American Turner history from a German point of view.

Photos of Louisville Turners  This link is to photo albums of old pictures from the Louisville Turners put together by Sharon Sabel Pike and Jack Koppel.