On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
A Slice of Germany! | On the Town in the Palm Beaches
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Step inside the American German Club in Lake Worth.
You’ll swear you’ve been transported out of the Country when you step inside the American German Club in Lake Worth, where a very festive crowd celebrates all year!
On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari is a local public television program presented by WPBT
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On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
A Slice of Germany! | On the Town in the Palm Beaches
Clip: Season 6 | 2m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
You’ll swear you’ve been transported out of the Country when you step inside the American German Club in Lake Worth, where a very festive crowd celebrates all year!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipBelieve it or not, this building was built by hand, by a group of friends.
In 1967, they got together and formed a social club for locals of German heritage to help preserve their old-world traditions.
Flash forward over 50 years, and I am ready to don some lederhosen and get my polka on.
You look great.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Tell me about the German-American club here, that we're in.
Sure, it started out a group of three guys who would bring their family to this field, play soccer, have a picnic.
So, they're German descent, so they called it the American-German Club.
And they built this clubhouse in 1975.
Incredible.
Oh, it's amazing.
That's an incredible history.
It's great.
This is, I mean, you've got grounds here.
Oh yeah.
It's like a fairground.
Yeah, it's many acres.
I think it's eight acres, something like that.
Talk to me about the program.
Like what do you guys do?
I mean, you're not just gathering together to, ya know.
To schunkeln and drink a few beers?
Yeah, you're doing more than that, so.
Yeah, well, in addition to being a social club, obviously we're a cultural club as well.
So we have many events that are culturally based.
We have fasching, which is like carnival.
Obviously, the big one would be Oktoberfest.
But we also have a weihnachtsmarkt, or a Christkindlesmarkt.
Okay.
And we have something called Krampusnach.
Currently, we have about 330 members, of all ages.
It's a fully volunteer organization.
So when we have our Oktoberfest, 30,000 people, it's all volunteers making the food, selling the beer, all volunteer.
The goal here is, is you don't have to be German or even of German heritage to join our club.
Sure.
All you have to do is have a true interest in A, helping out as a volunteer, but also interest in German culture, German food, German drink is always good too.
That's usually what brings people together.
Right.
The food and the drink.
Right?
They call it gemutlichkeit in German, gemutlichkeit.
Which is?
It's that warm feeling you get when you're sitting down with somebody, having a beer, that friendship that you built.
It's kind of like fellowshipping, I guess, is what you call it.
Yeah.
How I feel right now with you.
Right.
Wearing what I'm wearing.
I'm gemutlichkeiting.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yes.
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