I had a potential new story to tell today, but I decided not to write it. The easiest explanation for this is to say that I wanted to take a day off. The main character I was looking at mainly drew my attention because she would have been the 3rd straight Dora to appear on this blog. I wouldn’t classify her story as particularly fascinating, so I’m republishing an old post instead.

Seven years ago, the attached story was written about Rev. Georg Schieferdecker, who would be celebrating his 209th birthday today. One amazing fact about this pastor that was not mentioned in the previous story is that Pastor Schieferdecker was the first president of the Western District of what would later be called the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. He served in that position prior to being removed from that synod. As is explained in the attached post, Rev. Schieferdecker would later recant from his position on millennialism, and he returned to the Missouri Synod.

On a different note, let me point out that when this Schieferdecker story was being written back in 2017, Perry County was preparing for a total eclipse of the Sun which would occur in October of that year. If you look at the counter we have had on our website for a long time since that first eclipse, you should note that today we are 27 days away from experiencing our second total eclipse on April 8th. We are once again right in the path of totality, and we are told that we will have a little over 4 minutes of darkness. Our museum is now up to about 200 students from various Lutheran schools who are planning to be in Altenburg that day, also taking advantage of touring our museum while they are here. It is going to be a busy and exciting day for us. It is also going to be another day when I will not have time to compose a new blog post.