Keep Up With Everything GACC

Christmas tree lighting, with a German flair. Also, don’t forget to get your GACC calendar to welcome the New Year! Happy New Year 2022!

We all missed having our Oktoberfest beer garden, but how about Oktoberfest in Dezember? Join us on Saturday, December 4, for our beer garden from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.!

At long last, the German-American
Cultural Center and Museum is
going to have a totally new look for
its website.

When Hurricane Ida hit on August 29, it didn’t spare the old school building that houses the GACC and its museum.

The corner of Fifth Street and Huey P. Long Avenue has quite a history for the Gegenheimer family.

For the first time in 15 months, members of the GACC gathered for a social meeting. It was an evening with lots of smiles.

Learn about German surveyor Charles Frederic Zimpel, who made a big impact on New Orleans with his street layouts in the 1830s.

Happy scenes of revelers at our Maifest Beer Garden are featured in this newsletter. When you sell out of sauerkraut and Wersteiner Pilsner beer, you

The GACC prepares to roll out its German Beer Garden to celebrate Maifest, with homemade sauerkraut, baked pretzels, grilled brats and lots of German beer.

Gretna’s neighboring village of McDonoghville, now being considered for the National Register of Historic Places, has a museum display of historic photos such as the

The donation of a small photo album from 1917 belonging to a Gretna teenager adds to the history of the first high school in Jefferson

Reaching out to the community is important to GACC members, who organized a drive to deliver backpacks filled with essential items to homeless citizens across