COLE CAMP — At Cole Camp’s 12th annual Oktoberfest on Saturday, the crowd milling about on Maple Street could pick up plenty of German vocabulary, from the maypole-like structure (festbaum) raised to mark the festivities to the mixed choir (Gemischter Chor) singing at the Jaycee Gardens.
But the rain (der regen) was the main word on the minds of many, including Neil Heimsoth and the rest of the Gemischter Chor, also known as the Cole Camp German Singers. As the first drops of rain began to fall, they finished a light-hearted musical tribute to Schnapps with their songbooks over their heads and rushed to get the group’s piano under cover in the Jaycee Gardens.
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