Keep Up With Everything GACC

Mark your calendars for the GACC’s Maifest Beer Garden on Saturday, May 14. Beer, brats, sauerkraut, pretzels and plenty of German beer and wine!

It’s time to visit our museum and see the new display by genealogist Pat Smith celebrating the 300th anniversary of Germans coming to Louisiana.

Fasching merriment and carnival colors filled the GACC on February 26 as we celebrated Mardi Gras and chose a king and queen for the night.

More than four months after Hurricane Ida’s rain drenched the carpet in the GACC museum, beautiful new vinyl plank flooring is now in place in the museum, the director’s office and the library.

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