Comments on: Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/ Bicycle touring and history Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken Steinhoff http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/comment-page-1/#comment-1871 Ken Steinhoff Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:41:50 +0000 http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/#comment-1871 That's cool. Geology was my favorite topic in high school, but I don't recall ever hearing about eskers. I had dinner with my old geology teacher when I was home last month and we talked about doing the KATY Trail next spring. I'll ask him why he skipped that from the course when I see him. All I know about Esicar's is that it was down the hill from us and that my dad always thought their country ham was too dry, so we never bought from them. I don't know where they originated. That area is pretty heavily settled by Germans. (You couldn't tell that from the Steinhoff, could you?) I was confused when I was a kid because you'd hear someone called a Dutchman in a somewhat bemused or affectionate tone. It wasn't until a few years ago that I deduced that was a corruption of Deutsch man or man of Germany. That’s cool. Geology was my favorite topic in high school, but I don’t recall ever hearing about eskers. I had dinner with my old geology teacher when I was home last month and we talked about doing the KATY Trail next spring. I’ll ask him why he skipped that from the course when I see him.

All I know about Esicar’s is that it was down the hill from us and that my dad always thought their country ham was too dry, so we never bought from them.

I don’t know where they originated. That area is pretty heavily settled by Germans. (You couldn’t tell that from the Steinhoff, could you?)

I was confused when I was a kid because you’d hear someone called a Dutchman in a somewhat bemused or affectionate tone. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I deduced that was a corruption of Deutsch man or man of Germany.

]]> By: Spokesrider http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/comment-page-1/#comment-1870 Spokesrider Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:58:25 +0000 http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/#comment-1870 Say, Ken, do you know if the Esicars trace their family name to Ireland? If so, maybe there is a pretty direct connection to the word esker. <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Esker" rel="nofollow">Nationmaster - Encyclopedia - Esker </a> Say, Ken, do you know if the Esicars trace their family name to Ireland? If so, maybe there is a pretty direct connection to the word esker.

Nationmaster – Encyclopedia – Esker

]]> By: Spokesrider http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/comment-page-1/#comment-1868 Spokesrider Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:34:38 +0000 http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/#comment-1868 Hi, Ken. I sometimes think of it as an upside down river, through that isn't quite right. It's the gravel bed from an old river that ran in a tunnel inside a glacier. When the glacier melted, the gravel was left behind and formed a ridge with river-like twists and turns. You can go walking along the top of this one, which an information brochure said is the biggest/best-preserved one in Ohio. I think the glaciers didn't go quite as far south as Cape Girardeau, which is probably just as well considering the confusion that could have been created by eskers and Esicar's. :-) Hi, Ken. I sometimes think of it as an upside down river, through that isn’t quite right. It’s the gravel bed from an old river that ran in a tunnel inside a glacier. When the glacier melted, the gravel was left behind and formed a ridge with river-like twists and turns. You can go walking along the top of this one, which an information brochure said is the biggest/best-preserved one in Ohio.

I think the glaciers didn’t go quite as far south as Cape Girardeau, which is probably just as well considering the confusion that could have been created by eskers and Esicar’s. :-)

]]> By: Ken Steinhoff http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/comment-page-1/#comment-1867 Ken Steinhoff Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:19:21 +0000 http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/11/21/siegenthaler-kaestner-esker/#comment-1867 I know I could Google it, but I'm going to ask: what's an esker? I'm assuming that it's a geological feature. The closest I've come to anything sounding like that is Esicar's Old Hickory Smokehouse in Cape Girardeau, MO, and they just went out of business after 74 years. http://management.semo.edu/schfa04/jmbruyette1s/esicars/about.htm I know I could Google it, but I’m going to ask: what’s an esker? I’m assuming that it’s a geological feature.

The closest I’ve come to anything sounding like that is Esicar’s Old Hickory Smokehouse in Cape Girardeau, MO, and they just went out of business after 74 years.

http://management.semo.edu/schfa04/jmbruyette1s/esicars/about.htm

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