Residents take 250-year tour

Endicott

Catherine the Great: Germany and Russia 250 Year Tour was just completed by several people from the Endicott area including Willard and Anne Lowe, Jerine Gray, Don and Chris Kackman, Orle and Carol Hannas, Connie (Lust) and Steve Taylor, Richard Scheuerman and 19 other tourists with Germans from Russia relatives.

Scheuerman was the tour guide and took the group on the route the Volga Germans took on their trek to Russia. The Volga Germans’ trek started in 1763.

The group flew to Frankfurt, Germany, then to Schotten and Budingen, Germany, from where the Germans left on their way to the...