Hemingway and Twain were deeply influenced by experiences in Switzerland.

The Swiss who left their homeland had a huge impact in fabric of our nation.

When, and why, did people leave their alpine country and make their home on the other side of the Atlantic? 

What did they bring with them? How did they change our world?  Let's find out.
Visit some of the blog sites the Swiss Center enjoys. If there are others you'd like to let us know about--please e-mail us with information.


Jean-Francois de Buren is retracing the two-year long voyage through the Americas of the 1850s of his Swiss Great-Great-Grandfather, Henri de Buren, naturalist, artist and explorer. Follow the story on his blogsite The Grand Tour.

My Brand New Swiss Life: Grew up in Chicago (the Chicagoland area, which I have been told by new arrivals in Chicago "sounds like a theme park"). After college, most of my female friends moved to New York to have the single-girl-making-her-dreams-come-true-in-the-Big-City experience. For me it's Zurich. It's in Switzerland.

The Twissted Swisster website was originally built as a way to keep in touch with friends and family back home as I experienced the cultural transition that is a part of becoming an expat in Switzerland. I found a Blog to be the perfect format to record my own daily activities and share those activities with those that wanted to keep in touch.

One Big Yodel: I’m an American writer who moved to Switzerland in 2006 and am still pondering the lack of cheddar in the land of cheese. (I also really miss deep dish pizza—always a Chicago girl at heart). . I'm currently at work on an international corporate soap opera--in other words, a memoir about my life abroad.


Check out Swissstory. She's American, he is Aussie. Jessica started the Swisstory blog in April 2008 to chronicle their move from the States to Switzerland and to share their experiences with friends, family, other expats, hopeful expats, and those that just simply share our passion for travel and adventures abroad.

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Swiss Folk Art

Swiss immigrants, brought their folk art into the new world.

They also learned from others, particularly the Amish communities, and made an important contribution to the folk art of the US.

Christmas

Not all parts of Switzerland, especially in recent years, are always blessed with a white Christmas.

But it's a time of year when traditions are upheld, often even by those who are not actively religious.