Coming to America
Mari Keller Dyer
Discovering D’Arensbourg: Unraveling the Legends
Charles Frederick D’Arensbourg’s life in Europe has been told with scant details, incredible myths and frequent imaginations in Louisiana folklore for two hundred years. Embark on a journey of discovery as the histories of Germany and Sweden come together to tell the story of a colonial soldier’s life in Europe before sailing to the “New World”. Mari Keller Dyer shares these details from her book, Discovering D’Arensbourg: Unraveling the Legends of a Swedish Officer in the Great Northern War and First Commander of the German Coast in French Louisiana.