This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchewa, Selina Zato, and my mind dancing around

a maple. Now, Selina, this is a revelation to me. There is a German American club in

Pittsburgh, and you tell me you belong. It's all as well established. It has lots of

members. How does it celebrate its German connections? So the German club, official name, is

Tutonia Manneker. Tutonia is the region in Germany that it derives the first part of

his name. And Manneker is the name for a choir. It is, it began as a choir club in the

German Georgetown neighborhood in Pittsburgh. There were several of them in the mid 19th century.

There was a large German population in West Western Pennsylvania. And this particular one

predates the American Civil War. My great-grandfather and my grandfather were both members. And they

recently, after 16 years of bureaucratic hell, were able to erect a may bomb, or as you know,

we call it a may pole, in the beer garden of the German club. And there was a great celebration

for it after waiting so long to have this erected. It took so long that the guy who started it

has passed away. And so that just gives you an idea of the bureaucracy that you sometimes have

to go through just to do something as simple as putting a may ball. Not only is there a may pole

over the Georgetown neighborhood of Pittsburgh. What I see is a lot of grown ups wearing later

housing. Is that the uniform that you show up in may pole? Well, that's because it was a

celebration day. But at the German club, those usually people don the traditional dress of

basically German peasants because the immigrants that came from Germany were not wealthy. These were

what would become blue collar workers, artisans and craftsmen who worked in the steel mills,

who worked on the bridges and helped build the city of of Pittsburgh and cities across the

country. And they were there to celebrate the may pole. The may pole is found all across German

villages. And it is only traditionally only put up on May 1st as a celebration that the long dark

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