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Somewhere on a road between Virginia and Indiana, around 1832, a girl lost her bonnet. Hundreds of us are here because of what happened next.
That’s the kind of story the Glattfelder Gazette tells. Every week we take one ancestor out of the reunion programs, the family histories, and the letters nobody had opened in decades, and we tell their story the way you’d tell it across a kitchen table. Not a lecture. Not a museum tour.
Whether your name is spelled Glattfelder, Glatfelter, Clodfelter, Gladfelter, or any of the other ways it has traveled, this is where the family sits down and talks about where it came from.
The first episode arrives July 25, 2026, and a new story follows every week.
Follow the show now, so the first one is waiting for you.
From the Casper Glattfelder Association of America.
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What is Glattfelder Gazette?
The Glattfelder Gazette is a free weekly email newsletter and accompanying podcast that tells the story of the Glattfelder family — one short, readable story at a time. Each issue delivers a single story drawn from more than 280 years of family history, designed to be read in about five minutes. It's not a genealogy database or a research journal. It's a storytelling vehicle designed to reach the thousands of Glattfelder descendants — many of whom carry different last names and have no idea how deep their family's story goes — and give them a reason to care about where they come from.
From the Casper Glattfelder Association of America, this is the Glattfelder Gazette. Somewhere on a road between Virginia and Indiana around 1832, a girl lost her bonnet. Two hundred years later, hundreds of us are here because of what happened next. That's the kind of story we tell. Real people in this family pulled straight from the old records, the reunion programs, the letters nobody had opened in decades, and told, so you'll actually want to listen.
Speaker 1:Not a lecture, not a museum tour, more like the cousin who spent a weekend in the archives and came back saying, you're not going to believe this. Every week, one story. The farmer who got there first, the hymn that outlived the man who wrote it, the one armed flying farmer, the reunion that nearly died, and the people who wouldn't let it. If you just found out you're a Glattfelder or a Glattfelder, a Claudefelter, a Glattfelder, any of the spellings, this is where the family sits down and talks to itself about where it came from. We start July 25.
Speaker 1:A new story every week after that. Follow the Glattfelder Gazette now, so the first one's waiting for you. Speak the names again.