The Pursuit of Happiness – 200 Years of Westfalian Migration to the USA
“Life is better here than in Germany”, wrote Peter Horn in 1830 who had emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in a letter to his parents. Prosperity, liberty, adventure - those were the hopes that motivated about 300.000 people from Westphalia in the 19. and 20. century to start a new life in the US.
The exhibition catalogue “Vom Streben nach Glück” (The pursuit of happiness) (04/11/2016-09/25/2016) sheds light on the reasons to emigrate, follows the migrants on their way across the ocean and tells their life’s stories. The publication is the result of a collaboration between the CGAEH and the LWL-Ziegeleimusuem in Lage where the exhibit will be shown until September 2016.