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Wiederkehr was named for Johann Wiederkehr, who settled in Altus, Ark., in the 1880s because the Ozark Mountain country reminded him of his native Switzerland. Johann planted native Concords and Delawares, but in 1958 his grandson Alcuin, now 43, began experimenting with vinifera and last year sold 10,000 gal. of such wines as Cabernet Sauvignon and Gewurztraminer, some of them in his own Alpine-style restaurant...
...imported scholarly monks and artisans from Italy, Spain, Ireland and England to convert Aachen into St. Augustine's Civitas Dei, the divine city, in the barbarian heartland of Europe. He encouraged one monk, Alcuin, to make script more readable; Carolingian minuscule is still the foundation for the text type used in present-day printing. He built an octagonal chapel that still stands in Aachen, along the lines of the mosaic-coated San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. He even stole marble columns from Ravenna to make his church more authentic...
There is roller-skating at Bal-a-Rue, with Benny Alcuin at the organ...
...earliest examples of good handwriting, says West, goes back to the days of Charlemagne, when Alcuin of York and his scribes turned out a neat and stubby cursive called Caroline minuscule...
...after year, the Fosters had talked it over and prayed about it. Their only child, Marjorie Jean, became a nun when she was 17. Last November stocky Donald Foster, 50, decided that the time had come. After asking his pastor's advice, he wrote to the Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, of St. John's Abbey at Collegeville, Minn., and got an airmail reply. With a doctor's certificate of good health, he would be accepted for a year of study at the monastery before entering the novitiate...